Philipp Schmid

Building the postgres gem for a 64bit PostgreSQL on Snow Leopard (10.6)

Philipp Schmid — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 16:46:57 +0000

sudo env ARCHFLAGS=”-arch x86_64″ gem install postgres

SMS Gateway

Philipp Schmid — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 11:35:41 +0000

I have yet to try them out, but Clickatell seems like a nice, developer friendly SMS gateway.

UPDATE:

They offer a trail account where you get a few messages for free (although they override the message content with a default text), so I couldn’t resist and tried it out.

It’s really a matter of minutes if not seconds to get started:

schmidp@dna:~$ curl -i “http://api.clickatell.com/http/sendmsg?user=$USER&password=$PASSWORD&api_id=$APIID &to=$TO&from=$FROM&text=$TEXT”

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 11:59:22 GMT
Server: Apache/2.2.3 (Red Hat)
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.2.6
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html

ID: 352178af3b24f03ef83997de1024eead
schmidp@dna:~$

I have not yet compared their prices with other gateway providers, but I don’t have a real need for it now.

Enable SSH Agent (Key) Forwarding on Snow Leopard

Philipp Schmid — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 09:40:12 +0000

I’m using Git and Capistrano to deploy some ruby applications on multiple servers. My Git setup is done with gitosis which uses a key based authentication over ssh. The deployment script logs into the remote servers and checks out the current application version via Git.

Now to have this working, one must forward the private key, used to authenticate with git, to the server which does the checkout. This is done by the ssh-agent process, which whom you can register your keys by running the command ssh-add.

After switching to Snow Leopard, my deployment script stopped working, because somehow the ssh key didn’t get forwarded to the server and I was presented with a login prompt: “Enter password for git@git.gitserver.local:”. Of course I don’t have a password, because gitosis uses key based authentication only.

To make a long story short, Snow Leopard ships with key forwarding disabled by default and you will have to modify the file /etc/ssh_config to get it working.

Just change the lines

# Host *
# ForwardAgent no

into

Host *
ForwardAgent yes

and you are good.

iPhone Development Links

Philipp Schmid — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 02:30:48 +0000

Some random links I’ve found while searching for iPhone on github.

PwnageTool 3.0 works with Snow Leopard

Philipp Schmid — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 01:04:09 +0000

Ruby/Rails and MySQL on Snow Leopard (10A380)

Philipp Schmid — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 11:20:43 +0000

First get and install the 64bit MySQL version:

http://dev.mysql.com/get/Downloads/MySQL-5.1/mysql-5.1.35-osx10.5-x86_64.dmg/from/pick#mirrors

Then install the MySQL gem the following way:

sudo gem install mysql — –with-mysql-config=/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql_config

Hiding a Directory from Finder (Mac OS X)

Philipp Schmid — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 18:02:22 +0000

sudo chflags hidden /path/to/directory

Hello Android

Philipp Schmid — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 15:10:47 +0000

Functionality for four -dimensional graphics was considered for Android, but it was dropped because of a lack of time.

Source: Hello Android, ThePragmaticBookshelf

SuperNews! – Gates vs. Jobs

Philipp Schmid — Fri, 01 May 2009 13:30:21 +0000

What Mankind Can Achieve in 40 Years

Philipp Schmid — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 12:27:55 +0000

Source: http://www.caglecartoons.com/