Having started to change my environment quite a bit by changing from bash to zsh, Textmate (ok I am still using it quite a bit) to Vim and MacVim with Janus, I thought that I would join what seems to be a popular movement and share my dot files on GitHub.
https://github.com/timc3/dotfiles
The installer for Postgresql on Lion is supposedly “unsupported”, which means that they haven’t got it working yet. Looking at it quickly is seems to be the way that the postgres user is being created using dscl.
To get it to work, manually create a postgres user from under System Preferences:
Then run the installer as per normal. I used the Postgres 9 installer.
I also upgraded python to 2.7.2 and installed psycopg2 pointing to pg_config under /Library/PostgreSQL/9.0/bin/pg_config.
Haven’t had much time recently to post anything on here, though lots has been going on that I could write about.
Been to Cyprus for a family wedding which was really nice, pity that we had some stuff stolen including my iPhone, Nikon DSLR and video camera but otherwise it was great.
At work we are building new HTML5 based tools, improving the look and feel and capabilities of our main product – should really write up about some of the technology being used. To quickly list – backbone.js (which I love), gunicorn, Eventlet, some more nginx tricks, been building .deb installers, Python configuration tools, Johnny Cache for Django, Celery delayed processing and some more bits and pieces.
They people have some damn nice bags:
http://shop.hardgraft.com/bags/2unfold-laptop-bag-brown
I really like my MacBook Pro, but I have no idea why they ship with a 5400RPM 2.5″ slooooow disk. Even with the i5 processor it makes everything crawl.
Part of my standard software stack now is Dropbox, PostgreSQL and CrashPlan. All pieces of software I am really happy with, except they all access the disk all the time.
fs_usage is a command you can run to see what is current accessing the disk in OS X to see what is slowing down that already slow disk.
EDIT This post has been in draft for ages, I think I am just going to post as is, was going to add lots more personal stuff, but blah – rather do it instead.
I think most years I have been doing a summary, something I might revisit if I have the time. Instead I think its perhaps more interesting to think about what I might be doing this year instead.
Websites
Some of the websites I think I will be visiting more often:
Work
Probably going to be redefining Portal, our main product at Cantemo – not only form a design point of view but also in how the code is structured (my Javascript are improving to the point where I have noticed where I can make lots of cool improvements).
Also probably looking into some other products to go along with Portal and to increase our sales channels.
Really interesting slide show by Drew Houston on what they have learnt about starting up Dropbox.
http://www.slideshare.net/gueste94e4c/dropbox-startup-lessons-learned-3836587
The weekend we got back from a visit to England primarily to see my parents as it was my Dads 60th Birthday – Happy Birthday! and we also managed to see some friends, and meet up to do a little business.
First stop was London. Its always interesting to go back to the place after having lived there for about 10 years. I forgot how busy SoHo gets during the day, but that was made up by other factors. London is overwhelming with choice, vibrancy and colorful people. One thing that was new to me was how much harder it is to get around with a pram than Stockholm. Here is Harriet at her first visit to an English Pub. She was asked to leave..
After a couple of days we moved on to Bath to visit my cousin and his family. Its always nice to visit Bath, a more relaxed venue than London. It was good to catch up, and we have a brief trip to the farmers market.
Then it was on to Exmouth via a scenic drive. My parents hired a very nice apartment on the sea front which was much appreciated and we could watch the usual English sea-side vacation weather in its full glory.
We took a drive to see some wildlife and black swans.
Visit to a Donkey Sanctuary
Went to the small fishing village of Beer (no we didn’t have a chance to have any):
And at the end a really good get together with a lot of the family for my Dads 60th.
Finally have done something about the sorry state of these pages.
I had a quick 3 hour sprint today to see how much I could do with the aim to improve this site in the following ways:
3 hours isn’t a long time to do a complete redesign so I consider this the undesigned addition and its probably all the better for it.
I also took the opportunity to do the site in HTML 5. No canvas tags yet.
Next up I will be reintroducing things like search and archive links because it really does need them, but until then I feel happier about what I can see here.
Awesome silicon based material for hacking anything – http://sugru.com/