If you are in India and own a Apple box, you must be wondering, how to upgrade to Apple Leopard? I figured out that, we are required to print an order-form(PDF), fill it and send (fax or postal-email) to Apple Singapore, address/fax-number is mentioned in form-document.
That’s some work? Why can’t we buy stuff from Apple/Adobe sites? Why Indian users are treated like this? I have raised this question in past, would be raising again in future.
Anyway, you can check out Apple Asia web-site to find out about Apple Leopard and download this order-form(PDF).
Update: I just noticed that form is for users/customers who purchase a qualifying computer between 1 October 2007 and 29 December 2007.
Technorati tags: apple, leopard, india, upgrade, store
Today, I started installing tools/utils required for Ruby on Rails. I found a very informative step by step instructions on HiveLogic blog, thanks Dan for posting it.
Entire build/installation process was smooth except a few errors related to ruby-gems.
ERROR: While executing gem … (NoMethodError) undefined method `refresh’ for #
Console output:-
$ sudo gem install rails --include-dependencies
ERROR: While executing gem ... (NoMethodError)
undefined method `refresh' for #
Fix:
- Remove /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/source_cache and ~/.gems directories.
- Run the command (sudo gem install rails –include-dependencies) again.
ERROR: While executing gem … (Gem::GemNotFoundException) Could not find rails (> 0) in any repository
Console output:-
$ sudo gem install rails --include-dependencies
Bulk updating Gem source index for: http://gems.rubyforge.org
ERROR: While executing gem ... (Gem::GemNotFoundException)
Could not find rails (> 0) in any repository
Fix:
Update gem and its dependencies, it seems while setting up gems (as instructed in tutorial), setup script is not taking care of it. Run the following command and install all dependencies.
$ sudo gem update
Once gems and it’s dependencies are updated/installed, run the command (sudo gem install rails –include-dependencies) again.
I am posting this, even when its posted here and there on different blogs/mailing-lists, because I had to spend sometime to figure it out. Hope it helps.
Technorati tags: ruby, gems, rails, error
I got to know about Aviary through a colleague. I looked at their site and realized, they have some amazing tools (Flex/AIR based), which are editors/generators for image, vector, 3d, video, audio etc. As mentioned, these tools are web-based (flex) and desktop-client (air).
I am yet to look at their tools which are accessible only on invitation. I hope, I would get an invite soon. Why don’t you check it out too?
This is one more example to show why entire flash/flex ecosystem is so cool.
Technorati tags: aviary, ria, flex, air, adobe, createonthefly
An old schoolmate found me via Technorati, Google and Flickr. Thanks WWW for indexing/syndicating/storing all relevant (and irrelevant) data (blog posts, feeds, photographs, comments, mailing-list archives etc) about me.
I kept wondering how my friend got my primary email-id? it’s not trivial but determined-person can know it. I am lately very concerned about privacy.
Technorati tags: www, google, technorati, flickr, privacy, schoolmate
I am sharing VIM syntax files for ActionScript and MXML, which I was about to share last-year, I got lazy after Manish’s post. I hope, these syntax files would provide more (if not better) syntax-highlighting 
Click following links to download/see:-
You can refer to Manish’s post to learn how to use these files. Instruction applies to any VIM syntax file.
Credit goes to original creators of actionscript.vim and xml.vim. These files were starting points.
Disclaimer:These files work for me, these are not perfect or clean. I would try to clean up, add more (if any missing) syntax and share whenever I get time.
Technorati Tags: vim, syntax, actionscript, mxml, flex, flash
Yahoo! Open Hack Day has started with sessions from Joe Arnold (of Yahoo!), Christian Heilmann (of Yahoo! on Yahoo API and YUI) and Raghu (of Adobe on Flex and Mashup examples). More than hundred hackers have turned up, I am sure there would be more developers coming in, as time passes.
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Adobe has acquired Buzzword, the word-processor application built using Adobe Flex, by Virtual Ubiquity. It reminds me of Arul’s prediction, how some products are good candidates for acquisition by Adobe.
This is really motivating for flex developers. If you can build something cool and useful, Adobe might think of buying it.
Technorati Tags: buzzword, acquisition, adobe
Adobe has just released new prerelease builds of Adobe Flex 3, AIR and Media Player (AMP) on labs.adobe.com. I downloaded Adobe Media Player and checking it out, it looks good.
Technorati Tags: adobe, air, flex, media-player, prerelease, beta
