Update: Sold !
I have befriended my trusty MacBook Pro for a lighter Air and I’m now selling it. It was my main computer for a year and a half and enabled me to make a living out of it.
It’s a 2010 15” MacBookPro
PivotPad, an iPad client for Pivotal Tracker, won Best New Skills at Leeds Hack.
Had a blast with @mathie and @_rahim, photos will follow on Flickr.
Garana Jazz Festival
Edinburgh, where I’ll spend my summer working at a cool startup.
… for great good!
I’ve long been wanted to learn Erlang and I found a very good guide (isn’t as thorough but for an Erlang-noob it looks perfect).
The syntax is kind of strange but the most difficult part is thinking in a functional way. Hopefully I am going to write some toy projects in Erlang and get accustomed with it.
Another article I’ve been reading is a hands on review of Dynamo by implementing a key-value store in Erlang. It’s not a tutorial but the first article is simple enough to learn how to write Erlang modules.
If you have any suggestions for projects or other documentation please leave a comment.
Stanford started the Winter quarter class which now covers iPhone 3.0.
It’s a nice opportunity to play a bit with iPhone apps and learn Obj-C (which at first looked weird).
Get the videos from iTunes U.
I thought about how to process logs faster than using a cron job to poll for updates and I found mkfifo which you can use to get what’s written in real time. It makes a FIFO pipe which acts like a regular unix file except it has to be opened for reading (using fopen) before writing to it. I tested it on Snow Leopard, it is the same in linux as well.
After getting the updates in real time you can pushing them to a queue server like RabbitMQ for processing. Here’s how I done it using Ruby, Eventmachine and amqp gem:
mihai$ mkfifo log mihai$ ruby1.9 publisher.rb log & mihai$ echo "Test" > log
After a clean install of Snow Leopard I decided not to use MacPorts but to go with homebrew. Its main advantages are no duplication (macports installed its own version of ruby, python and other libs) and the path layout: packages are installed into their own prefix (eg. /usr/local/Cellar/wget) and then symlinked into the Homebrew prefix (eg. /usr/local).
And because all of the formulas are in git, to add one you just fork the project on GitHub, push your formula and make a pull request. Because of that it’s one of the most forked project on GitHub.
That’s what I did and now you can install Tokyo Cabinet and Tokyo Tyrant from my fork (I hope it will be merged into master soon) from main repo:
brew install tokyo-tyrant
(yep, no sudo needed).