http://creatingwithcode.com A blog by Robert (Marty) McGuire Wed, 02 Jul 2008 05:39:50 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://creatingwithcode.com/howto/getting-the-boarduino-working-with-os-x-leopard/ 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 ... http://creatingwithcode.com/howto/a-couple-of-leopard-configuration-tricks/ 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 ... http://creatingwithcode.com/howto/setting-up-rails-and-mysql-on-os-x-leopard/ 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 ... http://creatingwithcode.com/podcasting/podcast-3-are-we-getting-better-at-this-yet/ I recently had the need to migrate a project from a Subversion (SVN) repository that was shared among many other projects and groups to a fresh repository where it would be the first of many projects. My first instinct was to simply use svnadmin dump to dump out the contents of ... http://creatingwithcode.com/howto/extracting-projects-from-shared-svn/ Despite a lack of comments from the peanut gallery, Loren and I have created another podcast. You can download it here (~11.4MB) or listen below: We did this podcast with a little less preparation, so the topics wander a little bit more. Some things you can expect to hear: Justin.tv ... http://creatingwithcode.com/podcasting/podcasting-about-the-cloud/ I've recently become interested in forms of "live" online media such as podcasting. Specifically, I am interested in trying to extract the maximum possible value out of podcasts, such as transcripts, time-based tags and links, excerpts, etc. This interest, along with a recent outpouring of Internet media from ... http://creatingwithcode.com/podcasting/a-minor-example-of-podcasting/ If you've been following all of the latest buzz about data and applications "in the cloud", then you're probably already familiar with Amazon's Simple Storage Service (S3). If you're not, or if you've never had the chance to play with it, then this post should help you get up, ... http://creatingwithcode.com/howto/simple-off-site-storage-with-amazon-s3/