December 2009
5 posts
Oracle LD_LIBRARY_PATH for ruby-oci8/rails
Just putting this somewhere on the internet to hopefully save some other poor bastard the trouble of figuring it out.
To get the oracle instant client libraries to always be found even by background services etc (say monit restarting a mongrel) add a file in /etc/ld.so.conf.d called oracle-client.conf with a single unquoted line that is the path to your oracle instant client install eg...
Google offers to clean up your contacts →
Came in to work this morning and found my “Clean Code” book had arrived a month early and that Google contacts has added the exact feature I wanted.
Good start to the day :-)
“The Waterfall model is originally invented by Winston W. Royce in 1970. He wrote...”
– tarmo.fi » Blog Archive » Don’t draw diagrams of wrong practices – or: Why people still believe in the Waterfall model
A Programmer Pilgrim’s Progress - Ward Bell →
Usability bitch: Contacts
For my central contact store I use Google Contacts.
It’s used by gmail (my main email client), Wave, and my phone (G1). This means I have a single view of phone numbers and email addresses for people, it’s constantly backed up and is available with me always. I really like this.
But it doesn’t let me order information! I can’t change the ordering of email addresses for a...