The Perfect Development Environment Manual

This paper was written as my final paper for my graduate Process Management course at RIT.  The paper is based on a semi-fictional software as a service (software on demand) vendor which develops its own software and maintains its own development processes.  This document was to be formatted somewhere between a handbook and a memorandum …

Installing Subversion on RHEL5

Subversion (SVN) is a popular open source, source code change control package. Today we are going to install and configure Subversion on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2 (a.k.a. RHEL 5.2), I will actually be doing my testing on CentOS 5.2 but the process should be completely identical. Installing Subversion on Linux Installation of subversion is …

Simple Ruby Twitter Client – Tweet [Ruby]

This is my simple, Ruby based Twitter client using Curl designed for UNIX systems like Linux, Mac OSX, FreeBSD, Solaris, etc.  The only requirements are Curl and Ruby. In order to use Tweet, simply copy all of the included code into your favourite text editor (I use vi) and save as ‘Tweet’.  Don’t forget to …

Twitter from the Linux Command Line

Okay, so you are a crazy BASH or Korn shell nut (DASH, ASH, TCSH, CSH, ZSH, etc., etc. yes, I mean all of you) and you totally want to be able to Tweet on your Twitter feed without going to one of those krufty GUI utilities.  Such overkill for such a simple task.  I feel …

Ruby/Qt: qtruby4.rb:2144: [BUG] [x86_64-linux]

You are working with Ruby and Qt and you get the following error: /usr/lib64/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/Qt/qtruby4.rb:2144: [BUG] Segmentation fault ruby 1.8.6 (2008-03-03) [x86_64-linux] This is usually caused by a library linking problem. Most likely you are using: require ‘Qt’ Personally, I run into this problem when using Ruby/Qt on Novell OpenSUSE 11 64bit (x86_64 / AMD64).  What …