Archive for May, 2009

Shorthand to clean up installed Rubygems (but don’t cleanup Rails)

Friday, May 29th, 2009 by Jesper Rønn-Jensen

I trimmed my installed Rubygems on my local development machine. The command “sudo gem cleanup” is just for that. Only problem: What about my older Rails apps that require a specific version of Rails, ActiveRecord, etc.? My solution: gem list –no-versions | grep -v “^active” | grep -v “^action” | grep -v “^rails$” | xargs […]

I can’t get an AdSense account

Saturday, May 16th, 2009 by Thomas Watson Steen

This is one of the most dissatisfying customer experiences I’ve had in a long, long time. I’m managing a website for a customer and they want to have the AdSense program running on their site. Piece of cake I thought… First off I created a new AdSense account for the domain with my customers contact […]

IT frustration and counter-productive applications

Monday, May 11th, 2009 by Jesper Rønn-Jensen

Frustrated by internal systems! I just finished writing a page for our intranet. But now I ended up frustrated with no article published: First attempt: After spending 10 minutes writing I pressed “save and exit”. but the article never changed. Second attempt: Spent another 10 minutes writing. In the review I pressed Command+backspace to delete […]