The Hipster PDA

Feb 27
Posted on February 27, 2007 17:56 in Offline, Technology

Are you done using your Palm, trying to sync it with your pc and then have it to get to recognize your terrible handwritting? Don’t look any further because here is the new GTD (getting things done) tool: The Hipster PDA. The concept is very efficient and some people have even made templates for different activities.

VNC Viewer for Symbian

Feb 27
Posted on February 27, 2007 17:48 in Software

There are a lot of interesting people here in London, including my new neighbour who will start working at Symbian in April. For his final project at university he made a VNC viewer for Symbian. The tool allows you to use your symbian phone to control anything running VNC server. Today he gave me a demo and I was really impressed.

Ruby on Rails Headaches

Feb 27
Posted on February 27, 2007 3:02 in Problems & Solutions, Technology

So, I managed to create a nice web-app in RoR in very little lines of code, and it even has user login! Now the real problem that I encountered is this: how do you deploy a simple web-app with RoR? I mean, I don’t want to put the code on SVN and then use some advanced system like Capistrano to deploy my app to 5 servers. I just have a Mac Mini with integrated Apache and 4 users that will use the product. How do I do a SIMPLE deployment?

It is just weird that an app that is so meant for developers with deadlines, it is very badly documented on how to do a simple deployment!