Posts from 2009/01 | amdavidson.com

Rice Thief

posted on 2009-01-29 - amd.im/qllH

I caught Addy stealing some rice on camera during Joy's birthday dinner last weekend.

mysql Gem + MacPorts MySQL

posted on 2009-01-25 - amd.im/AKfu

I always forget this... so this is as much a note for me as anything else.

Especially because I'm basically just lifting this info from here.

sudo gem install mysql -- \
--with-mysql-include=/opt/local/include/mysql5 \
--with-mysql-lib=/opt/local/lib/mysql5 \
--with-mysql-config=/opt/local/lib/mysql5/bin/mysql_config

Despite what the linked website says, it appears that this command works on leopard just fine... no need for any changes.

LOL

posted on 2009-01-23 - amd.im/mzDU

Just a funny pic that I took over the weekend when I was chasing Adelaide around.

Wordpress Tweaks

posted on 2009-01-22 - amd.im/e3vy

Well, I spent an hour or two last night uploading a couple of plugins and playing with the CSS on the site. It's amazing what you can do with just [wordpress.org] and a couple of hours.

The theme is (heavily) based on Oulipo by Mignolo. Maybe someday I'll do my own custom theme, but for now, this'll do; I'd rather be working on my other sites.

Wordpress

posted on 2009-01-21 - amd.im/oTZU

Switched this blog from Mephisto to Wordpress, not a big migration yet, as there were only three posts to move.

Nothing against Mephisto, but I'd like to focus my efforts on my other site, and use Wordpress for this because it works well, and has a ton of plugin support to get the functionality that I want.

Froggy

posted on 2009-01-20 - amd.im/HlLO

I took the day off on MLK day and Naomi and I headed up to SF for something to do.

After driving around quite a bit with no luck finding parking, we nabbed a great spot in Golden Gate Park and headed to the California Academy of Sciences museum.

As we were leaving the rain forest exhibit, Naomi noticed a cool little frog sitting on the glass, and it was interesting how he tucked his feet underneath himself. I had never noticed or realized that frogs sit like that.

Not the most photographically rewarding photo, but an interesting shot more because of the content.

Installing Nokogiri Gem On Ubuntu

posted on 2009-01-19 - amd.im/vDj0

If you cannot install the nokogiri gem on ubuntu (required or recommended) for Mephisto.

You have to install two other libraries first that may or may not already be installed on your computer:

sudo apt-get install libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev

Simply installing libxml-ruby or libxml1 won't satisfy the requirements.

Thanks to hightechsorcery.com for the info.

undefined method `cache_template_loading='

posted on 2009-01-19 - amd.im/ZQiZ

If you have recently upgraded rails and your cron jobs for acts_as_xapian are failing with the error undefined method `cache_template_loading=' check out this rails commit.

You may have a deprecated method and need to remove the following from your config/environments/production.rb:

config.action_view.cache_template_loading            = true

andr3w.net

posted on 2009-01-18 - amd.im/yMye

Welcome to andr3w.net.

This site has a very simple purpose, in my free time I code my personal site, but that site is becoming more and more of a photoblog and less and less web development content seems relevant there (although I have always kept it to a minimum).

andr3w.net will be my second home on the web with information about my current effort with rails, (x)html, css, js, and whatever else I'm tinkering with at the time.

Check back soon for a restyling from the default Mephisto style and more content as free time allows.

Taipei 101 New Years

posted on 2009-01-15 - amd.im/9pf6

I've been driving back from the vendor for the last few days seeing Taipei 101 all lit up for the new year.

It seemed like something interesting to take a picture of and I've been meaning to get out there and do it, but haven't gotten the chance... So here's a snap from the window of my cab on the way back.

The interesting thing to note in the pic is that "2009" is written on the building. The official year in Taiwan is 98 (98 years since the start of the Republic of China).

When first coming to Taiwan, this actually was quite confusin... A random batch of six numbers often starting in 97 didn't stand out as a date to me.

Why they chose to put up 2009 on 101 is beyond me.

Old Posts Added

posted on 2009-01-13 - amd.im/TjbT

Thanks to Archive.org's Wayback Machine I found the earliest blog posts from this website that had been lost in time.

It was kinda funny seeing the site and remembering how hard it was to make, and how simple it looks now... You can see it here. Don't laugh.

Anyways the posts I added are on that page, and are now on here at:

Plum Wine

posted on 2009-01-12 - amd.im/1qny

I had some time off on Sunday, and had a concept for an album of images around Taipei.

So I went around and hit a couple areas of town that I thought would work for the images. After I got to the second site, things changed a bit and I started working on a pretty different album.

I'm trying out a few new things in this album. I don't usually head out with an album idea in mind, but I liked it, so I might try it more often.

I also don't usually process images like it, I'm trying out a new over-processed, black and white look. I don't think I'm going to use it all the time, but I kinda like it and might play with it more in the future.

Anyways, check em out: Plum Wine.

Light Trails

posted on 2009-01-11 - amd.im/Evbg

Got a little bored in my hotel room last night.

Took some shots of the light trails of the cars from my window.

It's not perfect, but I thought it was kinda neat. I had a bit of a time trying to take it as I had no tripod and this photo was a 30 second long exposure. I had to stack up nearly everything in my room to try and get a decent camera angle.

I had another idea for an album as well, and got the chance to take some pics today. I hope to have a new album together in a couple of days.

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