First DevCon in Visayas

Visit: www.devcon.ph

or

LiveStream: www.ustream.tv/channel/devcon-philippines

Are you lonely?

Recently I was invited by my fellow devs to join EVERYONE.ISLONE.LY.
The newly launched webtoy of SyndeoLabs.

By joining you can have your own lonely page :( hehe
Add stuffs that matters to you most and rate your friends based on those criteria.
Thus making the world less lonely lol :D

[TS] Thinking Sphinx

Using Thinking Sphinx in your rails app?
This is how I install TS in my Ubuntu machine.

First you need to install sphinx (if you haven't already).

$ curl -O http://sphinxsearch.com/downloads/sphinx-0.9.8-rc2.tar.gz
$ tar zxvf sphinx-0.9.8-rc2.tar.gz
$ cd sphinx-0.9.8-rc2
$ ./configure
$ make
$ sudo make install


Then install Thinking Sphinx as a plugin in your rails app.
I'm running on edge so:

script/plugin install git://github.com/freelancing-god/thinking-sphinx.git

Add these to your models.

define_index do
...
...
...
...
end

To index your models run:
$ rake thinking_sphinx:index or rake ts:in

To start searching daemon:
$ rake thinking_sphinx:start

To stop
$ rake thinking_sphinx:stop


To test:
Model.search "test"


Thinking Sphinx Rdoc: http://ts.freelancing-gods.com/rdoc/

After Girl Geek Dinner

After Girl Geek Dinner #1 | TechTicks

Cebu Girl Geek Dinner

A colleague of mine invited me to attend the first Cebu Geek Dinner (actually first in Asia) and Web2.0 Social Media Meetup.
I'm always interested in social networking stuffs and it is right here in the office so hey why not?

Ms. Carmen Villadar from Frankfurt Girk Geek Dinners and her friends online (Cora, Paul & others) made the meetup possible, sponsored by Exist Global.

I don't really know that is was a girl geek meeting, all I know is it's a Social Media Meetup but hey the talk with the girls and the geek boys was sure fun and worth your time. The discussion revolves on technologies, web2.0, social networking, current events and even social awareness. Talking while munching a monster pizza! I'd also met new friends from other I.T. companies and others that I already knew. All of us got a chance to stand in front and talk about what stuffs we do and how come we are in the I.T industry and lots of stuffs. Tell you, mine wasn't easy, am not used to talking in front of people (am used to just sit everyday lol) but they are very friendly. :)

You maybe asking if its exclusively for the girls? No, of course not, boys can come too as long as they bring a geek girl with them. :)

The question brought up by digitalfemme that stick to my mind among other things is: How would you use technology to bring change?
If I'll ask you the same question what would you say?

Error when opening pgAdmin in Ubuntu?

Got these following errors when you run pgAdmin in Ubuntu?

ERROR : can't open file '/usr/share/mime-info/air.mime' (error 2: No such file or directory)

ERROR : can't open file '/usr/share/mime-info/air.keys' (error 2: No such file or directory)

Seems a symlink problem of AdobeAir installation on Linux...

Fix mine through:

$ sudo unlink /usr/share/mime-info/air.keys
$ sudo unlink /usr/share/mime-info/air.mime
$ sudo ln -s /opt/Adobe\ AIR/Versions/1.0/support/air.keys /usr/share/mime-info/air.keys
$ sudo ln -s /opt/Adobe\ AIR/Versions/1.0/support/air.mime /usr/share/mime-info/air.mime

Installing Git in Ubuntu

"git" can mean anything
"global information tracker": you're in a good mood, and it actually
works for you.
"goddamn idiotic truckload of sh*t": when it breaks

Git is a fast, scalable, distributed revision control system with an
unusually rich command set that provides both high-level operations
and full access to internals.

Git is an Open Source project covered by the GNU General Public License.
It was originally written by Linus Torvalds with help of hackers.

Steps:
1. $ sudo apt-get install libexpat1-dev zlibc curl
2. $ cd ~ && mkdir src && cd src
3. Get the latest version or choose any version here: http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/
~/src$ wget http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/git-1.6.0.tar.gz
4. ~/src$ tar -xvf git-1.6.0.tar.gz && cd git-1.6.0
5. ~/src/git-1.6.0$ ./configure
6. ~/src/git-1.6.0$ make
7. ~/src/git-1.6.0$ sudo make install
8. ~/src/git-1.6.0$ git --version
git version 1.6.0
Your done!