Samurai Coder

Not only Apple’s MobileMe, 37signals products are also dropping support for IE 6.

IE 6 is still A-grade browser for Windows XP in YUI.

MOMBERMAN on iPhone.

Check their YouTube channel.

Dr Nic talks about testing iPhone apps.

I just bought it.

Phusion Passenger™ dropped onto the scene in early 2008 and immediately caused quite a stir.

Many developers have hoped for a way to run Rails applications natively inside Apache, and now it’s possible! Passenger™ makes development easier and is the best way to run Rails applications on shared hosts. You may even find it so easy to use that you choose to deploy your production applications with it as well.

rubyphunk:

RSpactor is a little command line tool to automatically run your changed specs (much like autotest). As you may expect, it concentrates on the use of RSpec. It was especially designed to use filesystem events like FSEvent on Leopard (MacOS 10.5) instead of permanently polling a directory structure. RSpactor is currently only working on Mac OS 10.5. But hey: I’m very confident that the next version of RSpactor will work on Linux boxes, too.

Hexagonal Close-Packed:

To package an existing Ruby on Rails application into an executable Mac OS X desktop application. This process (and the result) requires OS X 10.5 (”Leopard”) or later.

Interesting. A very detailed tutorial.

I decided to study for LPIC-1. I already have basic skills of Unix, but not so much about administrating. Also, as my background is unusual, I would like my employer and collegues to make sure what skills I already have. LPIC sounds reasonable because the knowledge is applicable to any Linux systems.

After that, I may study for Oracle Bronze, which is the lowest level in Oracle Certificates. As the lowest level, the exam doesn’t require much knowledge about Oracle-specific skills. Most of the contents are usable in MySQL. Or I may simply take MySQL exams.

In terms of programming, there’s a Ruby certificate. While this sounds promissing, I’m not really sure if it’s worth in everyday programming. The exam just seems to be asking memorization. Look at the sample questions someone else made.. Also, there’s no established book or resources available at this time. I can’t throw $150 for that sort of exam yet.

I’m not a big fan of certificates, but they will help me in some way or other.

P.S.: CompTIA seems less known here in Japan. Also there are some certificates that an organization supported by the govement offers, but they are only taken twice a year (spring and fall), I will avoid them for now.

A nice write-up for creating iPhone ringtones.

A podcast from WWDC. Brent Simmons, Greg Titus, Craig Hockenberry discusses iPhone app development.

Someone who followed my installation tutorial got stuck. Please report any similar issues at MacPorts Trac.