tag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-1421751 2011-06-24T14:54:24-04:00 I am a father, a bills fan and one hell of a pepsi addict. This blog contains my thoughts on just about everything. TypePad tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00e54ede0214883301538f68f641970b 2011-06-24T14:54:24-04:00 2011-06-24T14:57:59-04:00

First post in a while.. hopefully that will be changing soon. Anyway.. Happy Friday everyone. The other day I went to integrate rackspaces's email service with an application we have here at work. Very quickly I realized that I was...

Chris Schmitt http://treadpath.typepad.com/thoughtintomotion/2011/06/actionmailer-woes-integrating-with-rackspaces-email-service.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00e54ede02148833014e5f390265970c 2011-02-14T18:40:29-05:00 2011-02-14T18:42:50-05:00

It's right there in the examples.. but you are smarter. Well at least that is what I thought. For the last 3 days I have been rebuilding ec2 instance after ec2 instance thanks to the following error messages: kbuildsycoca running......

Chris Schmitt http://treadpath.typepad.com/thoughtintomotion/2011/02/khtml2png-make-sure-to-use-a-proper-protocal.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00e54ede02148833014e86117760970d 2011-02-14T10:51:09-05:00 2011-02-14T16:15:23-05:00

Just fixed a git error that was driving me crazy. After building from source I was getting the following error when trying to clone a repository via https: fatal: Unable to find remote helper for 'https' But I couldn't understand...

Chris Schmitt http://treadpath.typepad.com/thoughtintomotion/2011/02/just-fixed-a-git-error-that-was-driving-me-crazy-after-building-from-source-i-was-getting-the-following-error-when-trying-to.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00e54ede021488330148c8738113970c 2011-02-08T09:40:49-05:00 2011-02-08T10:18:03-05:00

Ruby Gems 1.5.0 is out and it is now safe for Ruby 1.9.2 users to upgrade. For more information please follow the link below to the announcement. Ruby 1.5.0 is out

Chris Schmitt http://treadpath.typepad.com/thoughtintomotion/2011/02/rubygems-150-is-out.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00e54ede021488330148c86f2413970c 2011-02-07T19:53:46-05:00 2011-02-07T19:53:46-05:00

Last year was filled with both good and bad.. On the bad side I had to close down my company after 3 years and go back to coporate america. On the good side, my second son was born and I...

Chris Schmitt http://treadpath.typepad.com/thoughtintomotion/2011/02/sooo-i-lost-the-domain.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00e54ede021488330133f445d49a970b 2010-09-15T22:58:07-04:00 2010-09-15T22:58:07-04:00

Just came across this article on ReadWriteWeb. It is a quick read and not really full of great insights, but I did think this quote had a great piece of advice from Jack Dorsey. When planing my next project this...

Chris Schmitt http://treadpath.typepad.com/thoughtintomotion/2010/09/startup-tips-from-jack-dorsey-dont-pull-a-twitter-1.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00e54ede0214883301348563f029970c 2010-07-12T22:22:49-04:00 2010-07-12T22:22:49-04:00

Paul Adams from Google has put together a very informative presentation on the history of the social network. He some of the mistakes made in modern day social networks and how we can examine our real lives to build better...

Chris Schmitt http://treadpath.typepad.com/thoughtintomotion/2010/07/the-real-life-social-network-v2-1.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00e54ede021488330133f23830c4970b 2010-07-11T22:33:09-04:00 2010-07-11T22:34:50-04:00

The Creativity Crisis For the first time, research shows that American creativity is declining. What went wrong—and how we can fix it.Back in 1958, Ted Schwarzrock was an 8-year-old third grader when he became one of the “Torrance kids,” a...

Chris Schmitt http://treadpath.typepad.com/thoughtintomotion/2010/07/the-creativity-crisis---newsweek-1.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-68209397 2009-11-11T20:48:34-05:00 2009-06-17T14:44:23-04:00

I have started looking into Flex 4 (Gumbo) and below are a couple of links that I have stumbled across with more information about Flex 3 & Flex 4. As I find more links I will try and keep this...

Chris Schmitt http://treadpath.typepad.com/thoughtintomotion/2009/11/gumbo-and-what-it-will-do-for-you.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-67989909 2009-06-11T12:55:33-04:00 2009-06-11T13:10:55-04:00

Facebooker is a rails plugin that wraps the Facebook REST API's. If you are not a facebook developer, then learning how to use facebooker can be somewhat of a bear. To make things easier there are three links that you...

Chris Schmitt http://treadpath.typepad.com/thoughtintomotion/2009/06/publish-feed-stories-with-facebooker-rails.html