Jay McGavren's Journal

2007-11-13

Zyps on Fedora Core 5

Zyps is running on my Fedora Core 5 box. Next stop: OSX. Thanks, James!

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2007-11-13

The Zyps presentation went pretty well. I got a lot of good feedback and encouragement. James Britt got the GUI up and running on Kubuntu (something that had eluded me thus far). Chris Matthieu wants me to record a screencast for Rubyology. David Koontz vowed to steal my behavior/action/condition setup and use it in Railgun (if I don’t steal his first).

Now if only it had been to a group of more than eight people… The change in location (now at the Rising Tide Software office) is partly responsible, I’m sure; people either couldn’t find it or didn’t want to trek the extra distance. Also, no one was able to connect to the dRuby server like I’d hoped.

Oh, well, it was a fun evening, regardless. Note to self - next time you order the teriyaki mushroom burger, have ‘em go easy on the teriyaki.

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2007-11-09

Uh, oh...

Well, I was liking Copernic Desktop Search 2. But it just locked up my whole machine trying to preview an 8-meg plain-text log file (that I didn’t even intend to view).

Google Desktop has been failing me lately (not finding documents, demaninding too much precision in search terms, etc.), which is why I switched. But maybe the alternatives aren’t that much better…

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2007-11-09

To: Phoenix Ruby Users Group

From: James Britt Date: Nov 6, 6:23 pm Subject: November Phoenix Ruby User Group Meeting (PLEASE NOTE NEW LOCATION!) To: Phoenix Ruby Users Group November Phoenix Ruby User Group Meeting Date: Monday, November 12, 2007 Time: 7:00pm Place: Rising Tide Software ... Topics: * A recap of the recent RubyConf 2007 by people who were *Actually There!* * A demo of the Zyps game library by Jay McGavren! * Maybe some other stuff!

I prepped a tutorial on the dRuby server, which I’ve copied here…

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2007-11-07

How's THAT work?

Working on BreedAction, but I’m having some trouble…

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