Hi. I'm Nick Olejniczak and this is where I write about technology, the web and other bits of general geekery. I'm a web developer who loves Ruby on Rails, web standards and personal publishing. Interested in working together? Get in touch.
Hi. I'm Nick Olejniczak and this is where I write about technology, the web and other bits of general geekery. I'm a web developer who loves Ruby on Rails, web standards and personal publishing. Interested in working together? Get in touch.
I definitely didn’t have access to reflective water today, it was a balmy 17°F here in Madison this afternoon.
Dailyshoot: Reflections draw the eye. Find a pool, puddle, or other body of still water and make a photo of a reflected subject today.
I upgraded to Snow Leopard tonight. It was a surprisingly quick and easy task actually. I did a clean install to a new drive, installed MacPorts and then ran the following, recorded here as much for my own memory as for posterity.
# get the right version of zlib
sudo port install zlib +universal
# install mysql
sudo port install mysql5-server
# configure mysql (some interaction required)
sudo launchctl load -w /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.macports.mysql5.plist
sudo -u mysql mysql_install_db5
cd /opt/local ; sudo /opt/local/lib/mysql5/bin/mysqld_safe &
/opt/local/lib/mysql5/bin/mysql_secure_installation
# yay, ImageMagick
sudo port install ImageMagick
# rubystuffs
sudo port install ruby
sudo port install rb-mysql
sudo port install rb-rubygems
# do an update, just in case
sudo gem update --system
# grab a bunch of gems
sudo gem install termios
sudo gem install mysql
sudo gem install rake
sudo gem install rails
sudo gem install mongrel
sudo gem install capistrano
sudo gem install capistrano-ext
# install git
sudo port install git-core
The whole process took a little over an hour on my Mac Pro. Then it was just a matter of checking out a few codebases and rehydrating a few databases. Very simple.
Updated 11/1/2009 to include universal zlib configuration option.
Amy and I are leaning how to can foods this year. So far so good. (Of course, we haven’t eaten any of it yet.)
I had never photographed lightning before, but it’s always been on my to do list. Turns out it requires patience and an extremely cooperative thunderstorm. So much fun.
I’m pretty sure this morning’s Twitter outage and Facebook flakiness are combined causing an unprecedented surge in the nation’s productivity.
At least, this is a personally true statement.
Check out the new and improved pnt.me, for all your URL shortening needs. We really rounded out the feature set with this one including things like link statistics that update in realtime, and a brand new look and feel.
I thought the colors in these were just too fun. Lots of red flares and a few local fireworks captured by a series of fifteen second exposures. I didn’t have a tripod though, instead I used a shaky park bench on a floating pier.
Saturday on the (Rebooted) Final Frontier · How Star Trek shows us the right way to reboot a franchise.
Evernote Stats · An excellent breakdown of Evernote’s stats showing the relationship between downloads, registered users, and active users. Way to go Evernote for being so transparent, this is great data.
Is Real-time the Future of the Web? · Yes. Or yes, some of the time. We can do real-time and asynchronous content on the web, I don’t see any reason to pick.
I thought the light filtering through the trees was just fantastic.
Dracula in real time · Bram Stoker’s book starts on May 3rd, read along in real time.
Amy snacks about 10 miles into a 32 mile birthday ride for me.
If that's not enough you can also browse by year: 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, and 2001. I've been at it a while.
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