Creating With Code

A blog by Robert (Marty) McGuire

Entries from June 2008

Getting the Boarduino working with OS X Leopard

June 12th, 2008 · 2 Comments

I’ve been into hardware hacking on and off for much of my life, but I’ve never really had the time and confidence to design and build my own hardware. In recent years, projects like the open source Arduino have been slowly convincing me that I just might be able to do this stuff.
When a [...]

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A couple of Leopard configuration tricks

June 12th, 2008 · 1 Comment

I find Google to be a more and more valuable resource as time goes on, especially when seeking knowledge about how to make this new MacBook act like I want it to.
One thing I noticed early on was that pressing Tab to move around various interfaces, from Finder dialogs to web pages, would only tab [...]

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Setting up Rails and MySQL on OS X Leopard

June 12th, 2008 · No Comments

I recently purchased a MacBook to use as my primary development system. One of my first plans was to get up and running with Rails on this new machine. Given that Leopard (OS X 10.5) comes with Ruby version 1.8.6 and RubyGems 1.0.1, I thought I would be in good shape, but there [...]

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Podcast 3: Are we getting better at this, yet?

June 1st, 2008 · No Comments

I have acquired a fancy microphone to match Loren’s, and we have created another podcast. We started with a list of topics to talk about this time, though of course we used those items more as suggestions than as guidelines. Here are some things we talked about this week along with a bundle of [...]

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