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Comment on ffmpeg on osx lion by Sarah

Sarah — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 16:57:41 +0000

Wow. Even simpler. Thanks!

Comment on ffmpeg on osx lion by Toffanin

Toffanin — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 11:23:46 +0000

ffmpeg is available trough homebrew too: “brew info ffmpeg”.

Comment on become a working developer in 5 months? by Jeff Casimir

Jeff Casimir — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 15:06:18 +0000

Sarah,

I won’t lie — I’m a little nervous. It’s definitely quite a challenge from a teaching perspective. My solace is that people in the program will have every resource one could ask for — instruction, support, mentorship, an experienced team, an awesome physical environment — you name it.

Back in the day, so many of us learned Rails, stumbling through Ruby at the same time, and would use the mailing list when you got stuck. There’s value in struggling on your own, but when I talk to learners I over and over hear “I started, got stuck, worked on it for awhile, then moved on to other projects.”

I think we can dramatically accelerate learning. Only 12 hours/week will be in a classroom environment, the rest will be working in teams on projects and contributing back to the community. My hope is that the classroom provides the baseline fundamentals and the projects allow the space to fly.

Thanks for your support and we’ll surely talk more as the program gets started!

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Comment on setting up ec2 minecraft server by Grigory V.

Grigory V. — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 22:00:33 +0000

Hmm. Micro instances automatically scale to 2 “elastic CPU units” or whatever they call them when the load is high. I wonder if using Java 7 and a different server would help.

“ssh -i ubuntu@ec2.pem ec2-” wait, what. Do you mean “ssh -i ec2.pem ubuntu@ec2-”?

> Ubuntu takes up too much disk space by default to fit into a micro instance
Micro instances only work with EBS, 8 GB one is free. Ubuntu Server doesn’t take that much space.

Also, you don’t *have* to install Amazon’s command line tools, you can use the web interface to control instances. And screen isn’t cool, tmux is :-)

Comment on setting up ec2 minecraft server by Sarah

Sarah — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 15:44:38 +0000

Wow — nice catch, Gary!

Oddly Amazon shows no charges for this billing period, but I don’t trust their reporting: https://skitch.com/ultrasaurus/gmcrh/amazon-web-services

I’m going to run thru the steps again for a micro instance — we’re only planning on hosting a few players, so I figured it was worth a try.

Comment on setting up ec2 minecraft server by Gary

Gary — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 15:01:21 +0000

Isn’t an EC2 micro instance free for a year, not a small instance?
Make sure you’re not getting charged more than you think!
Micro probably doesn’t have consistent enough CPU for gaming, unfortunately.

Comment on creating a custom rake task by Sarah

Sarah — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 17:18:48 +0000

:task_name => :environment will load the Rails environment, which will allow you to access things like your ActiveRecord models or Rails config. Without that you can just run pure Ruby code.

Comment on creating a custom rake task by Aravind

Aravind — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 15:51:52 +0000

Thank you for your post…

Could you tell me the significance of :environment in :task_name => :environment. what happens if i vomit this :environment ?