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Entries from October 2006

Mapping your travels with subway logos

October 28th, 2006 · No Comments

Got at b3co.com!
I love this. Using logos of all the subway systems you’ve ever ridden is a wonderfully whimsical expression of creating a community around a shared experience. Tell me you don’t want to go to the site right [...]

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Tags: Life

Fixing the @#$!! RMagick.bundle: [BUG] Bus Error

October 27th, 2006 · 3 Comments

After upgrading gems on my Macbook Pro a few months ago, I started getting this horrible error whenever I tried to get to my application’s console in Rails.
The-Me:~/Sites/socialight michael$ script/console
Loading development environment.
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rmagick-1.14.1/lib/RMagick.bundle: [BUG] Bus Error
ruby 1.8.4 (2005-12-24) [i686-darwin8.6.1]
Abort trap
I tried everything. Reinstalling Ruby, Rails and the RMagick gem. Downloading new versions of ImageMagick and GraphicsMagick [...]

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::: Mobile Game Contest 2006 :::

October 7th, 2006 · No Comments

Some exciting news about mobile games from actionscript.it
“FlashLite is fast developing into one of the most exciting new tools for mobile development, and the large pool of talented flash developers world wide promises to make it extremely successful. However, for most mobile professionals, J2ME is still the preferred choice. Mobile.Actionscript.it is open to the [...]

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Tags: Life