I'm looking for access to vCloud providers services so I can add their service into Fog's Vcloud provider.

I'm kind of sick of starting Mongodb and Redis manually in a terminal window and minimizing it to the dock....

So I found these ... http://swig505.com/2010/01/25/launchd-for-redis-mongodb-memcached-kestrel.html

and turned them into...

and

Both of the above assume you've installed redis & mongodb via brew

http://github.com/freeformz/fog/tree/vcloud

Slightly more Vcloud ...

Switching to Structs (instead of hashes) ... at least for now .. kind
of sick of [] atm. Maybe full classes eventually. Structs are a happy
medium for now.

Mostly testing though.

50 examples, 0 failures

That reminds me ...

If you use rspec ... at all ... Go look at these presentations and absorb.

http://pure-rspec-rubynation.heroku.com/

They're awesome.

Trust me.

Thanks to technicalpickles on #rspec for pointing me at them.

Anything that makes "The Web" dependent on a proprietary technology,
controlled by a single company is bad for everyone except said
company. That goes just as much for H.264 as for Adobe Flash.

At this point I want Adobe and Apple to STFU.

Use this extension to hide the new and annoying (to me) Google Options sidebar.

http://www.seotools.com/hide-google-options/

Hopefully google will make this an option again.

I hacked on "improved" vCloud support for Fog today.

http://github.com/freeformz/fog/tree/vcloud

~/.fog details

It's a start. So far I have:

-Better support for API versions.
-Stop using ids and use the url/uris provided by the API.
-re-auth (although this was also added to Fog::Terremark recently as well)
-Cleaner Class hierarchy (yes. I'm responsible for the current state)
-ability to plugin an extension module

This week I hope to port over the rest of Fog::Terremark...

Hopefully @geemus likes.

P.S. If you haven't checked out Fog (http://github.com/geemus/fog)...
it's a kick ass * cloud wrapper that currently supports AWS,
Terremark's (e|v)Cloud, Rackspace & Slicehost.

git config --global alias.lg "log --graph --pretty=format:'%Cred%h%Creset -%C(yellow)%d%Creset %s %Cgreen(%cr) %C(bold blue)<%an>%Creset' --abbrev-commit --date=relative"

I think it's time we import US Federal Law into a git repo. Congress members and Senators can fork/branch for bills. President can merge once a commit hash is properly digitally signed (i.e. has enough votes). Anyone could check it out, review history. Smart politicians would make their forks/branches publicly available. We could host the entire thing on github (okay, maybe not).

This is a "dressing" recipe my mother used to make all the time for Thanksgiving (and sometimes on X-Mas). I'm currently in the process of re-constructing it from my mothers notes, which aren't exactly "accurate", since she made it from memory all the time. Hope you like it.

Ingredients

• 3 Boxes of Jiffy Cornbread Muffin Mix
• 3 Red (or Green) Bell Peppers
• 1 Small can of mushrooms
• 1 Medium Yellow Onion
• 4 Celery Stalks
• 4 Slices of White (or Whole Wheat) Bread, Toasted
• 3 Cans of Chicken Broth
• 1 Cup Milk
• 1/4 lb. of Butter, Melted
• Salt to taste
• Pepper to taste

Directions

Prepare Jiffy Cornbread Muffin Mix as per box. 3 boxes can go into one 9.5" x 11" pan for 20-25 minutes @ 400°F . Cool for 30-60 min after it's done. Preheat oven to 375°F In a food processor, combine the bell peppers, mushrooms, yellow onion & celery stalks. Process until fine. Empty into mixing bowl. Crumble the toast and the cooled cornbread into the vegetable mixture. Stir to combine. Add in 2 cans of chicken broth, milk, butter and stir to combine. Stir in enough of the 3rd can of chicken broth to get the right consistency (puddingish). Add salt & pepper to taste. Pour into oblong 13"x9"x2" pan. Bake for 40-60 minutes @ 375°F.

If you play D&D with a computer or iPhone and haven't found out about iplay4e, go there now. It's a great "little" Google App Engine app that helps your run your character. Here are links to my 2 characters, one of which I haven't played yet. Ooth'talo (Genasi Sword Mage) - Full Screen - iPhone Zidius (Eladrin Wizard) - Full Screen - iPhone I've been playing Ooth for most of the summer and I just rolled up Zidius yesterday.