http://blog.edhickey.com computers, music, what am i missing? Wed, 21 Apr 2010 02:27:55 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en My MacBook had a blowout the other day. Sent it to Apple and they had to replace the hard drive. That said, I've spent most of the day reinstalling everything. I tried to use the ruby that comes with OSX, but was having too many issues ... http://blog.edhickey.com/2009/04/03/mysql-osx-and-ruby/ I haven't posted much music-related in awhile so I figured I'd get back into it with a free download. Of the 4 people who read this blog, probably none of them know that I was in an electronic much project named E.V.A.C. The "group" consisted of me and Jeremy Goldstein. ... http://blog.edhickey.com/2009/02/04/evac-dj-mix-the-church-denver-2002/ So I ran into this memory leak about a year ago but had forgotten about it so I'm going to document it in the hopes I check my own blog next time I find it. I came across the leak again when looking into why one of my apps ... http://blog.edhickey.com/2008/12/03/memory-leak-in-ruby-186-string-class/ I spent too long today trying to get merb running on a CentOS box because I had to jump through a lot of hoops to get the do_mysql-0.9.6 gem installed. I'm not really sure how to even sum up all the dead ends and changes I had to make, ... http://blog.edhickey.com/2008/11/03/painful-install-of-do_mysql-ruby-gem/ I've been working on a fork of the ThinkingSphinx Rails plugin that has now been in production for over a week without issue.  The Freelancing Gods have done a great job writing easy-to-read code that's fairly easy to extend.  Most areas of the code are solid, but we needed to ... http://blog.edhickey.com/2008/09/15/thinkingsphinx-rails-plugin-fork/ We run around 100 mongrels between all our servers. 90% of them serve hundreds of XML requests a second, around the clock. We've been following the 'scale-out' methodology, but it can only go so far before you have to look at squeezing more performance out of your ... http://blog.edhickey.com/2008/02/08/mongrel-memory-usage/ The passionate worker doesn't show up because she's afraid of getting in trouble, she shows up because it's a hobby that pays.I agree completely.  I try to explain this to my wife and she's hard-pressed to understand.  But it's true - I love what I do. http://blog.edhickey.com/2008/01/17/i-am-a-workaholic/ This blog has more or less languished over the past couple years.  I never really got into the daily blogging rhythm, so there's not much here to speak of.  That said, I've obtained a lot of experience and learned a lot over the past 2 years at my current job. ... http://blog.edhickey.com/2008/01/16/an-intro-of-sorts/ A friend sent me a Sebastian Tellier song the other day that I quite liked. Though, immediately upon hearing it I realized it sounded a lot like something off the new Radiohead album. You be the judge: Sebastian Tellier - La Ritournelle (Sessions, 2005) YouTube flash version w/ drums Radiohead - Reckoner ... http://blog.edhickey.com/2007/11/27/sebastian-tellier-vs-radiohead/ Oh my goodness A Carlton breakdance instructional? I need it! Yes, like the Carlton from The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. http://blog.edhickey.com/2007/09/07/carltons-fuckin-it-up/