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Google Wave Invite Users Still Waiting

It looks like people who were invited to Google Wave by other users (the ones that received the original invite from Google) are still waiting to get their invite.  If Google sent out 100,000 invites and each user could invite … Continue reading

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InvalidAuthenticityToken Error in Rails

Working with a RESTful API in Rails can be a bit challenging at times.  One such problem is the ActionController::InvalidAuthenticityToken error.  This error is thrown when authenticity token is not present or invalid.  (This is how Rails protects itself from … Continue reading

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Yahoo Search Index Speed

I submitted this blog to Yahoo a while ago.  Why?  It was more of a test of how fast they spider sites rather than an attempt to drive traffic.  After the submission, they stated: Thank you! Your URL has been … Continue reading

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Google Apps SLA

Today we received notice from Google that we would be receiving credit for the loss of service earlier in the week. Between 12:45 PM to 2:15 PM PDT | 19:45 – 21:15 GMT on Tuesday, September 1, 2009, Google Apps … Continue reading

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Update: Fixing Rails in Snow Leopard

I was too quick to declare success in my update to Snow Leopard earlier this week.  As it turns out, much of my recovered space came from Xcode being uninstalled.  Easy fix.  Grabbed the DVD and installed it in a … Continue reading

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Capistrano is Fixed in Snow Leopard

There were a number of things that seemed to break with the upgrade to Snow Leopard.  The latest is my ability to deploy Rails application using Capistrano.  For some reason, the SSH connection would hang.  Looks like this was fixed … Continue reading

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Bad Timing of a Retrospective

During the last sprint, we made a critical error in planning our meetings.  Due to time constraints and people’s schedules, we scheduled the Sprint Retrospective for the last sprint after the Sprint Planning meeting for the next sprint.  The retrospective … Continue reading

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A Quality Apple

Sadly today, I need to take my wife’s iPhone to an Apple store for a replacement.  This is will be the 7th iPhone between the two of us.  Here are the problems we encountered: The earphone jack stopped working, phone … Continue reading

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Installing git on OS X

I finally decided to sneak a peak at git, the distributed version control system.  After some light searching, I found MacPorts to be the best bet for installing the software.  While trying to install rsync, I kept getting the following … Continue reading

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iPhone: Bleeding Edge

Yes I woke up early on Friday and had a few minutes to kill before I went to work.  So what did I decide to do, update my iPhone to the new 2.0 firmware.  Me and the millions of other … Continue reading

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