http://www.xterm.it/blog time to think - by Marco Campana Sun, 18 Oct 2009 20:59:15 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The other day I started getting 'Host Key verification' failed error when trying to deploy an application with Capistrano hosted on a Git repository accessed via SSH. At first the problem was a bit scary, but after a bit of thinking I figured out that the solution to the problem ... http://www.xterm.it/blog/2009/10/host-key-verification-failed-with-capistrano-and-git/ This should sound like a very easy task, but it took me a while to sort this out, so I thought I'd share it. If you want to install the mysql gem with Ruby1.9 try this: sudo gem1.9 install kwatch-mysql-ruby ... http://www.xterm.it/blog/2009/06/install-mysql-gem-on-ruby19/ It's not even an alpha release, or a release of some sort, but we can finally download a buggy but usable version of Google Chrome for the Mac. It's obviously full of bugs and missing features, but if you are dying to trying it on your Mac (yes, like me) ... http://www.xterm.it/blog/2009/05/finally-a-taste-of-chromium-on-the-mac/ I went to the Yahoo! Open Hack day London last Saturday. I waited for quite a long time this event, and I'm pleased to say that all my expectations were fully met. A big number of Yahoo enthusiasts (and a guy with a Google T-shirt) arrived at the Congress Center ... http://www.xterm.it/blog/2009/05/the-yahoo-hack-day-is-gone-good-stuff-guys/ I have found this toy code on java.sun.com that describes how Java annotations could be used to write a simple Test runner. This script gets as argument the name of a class and tries to execute all the methods of that class that are annotated as @Test. The interesting aspect of ... http://www.xterm.it/blog/2009/04/a-sample-java-test-runner-using-annotations/ Finally after 2 years Yahoo! is back with his Open Hack Day event in London! The 24h non stop event will take place in London the 9th and 10th of May, featuring tech talks on Yahoo!'s technologies, games, food, and of course plenty of hacking. If you are planning ... http://www.xterm.it/blog/2009/04/yahoo-open-hack-day-london-2009/ This small hack adds attribute accessors to a Perl class. The idea is to add to a Perl package behavior similar to a Ruby class, when you can specify attribute accessors (getters and setters) like this: attr_accessor :attr_name Here is the code we have written. Basically all you need to do is ... http://www.xterm.it/blog/2009/02/adding-attribute-accessors-to-a-perl-class-rubifying-perl/ If you are a Perl developer (or just passionate about this language), then London is definitely the city to live in. The Perl community in the city is quite active, as you can see from the number of free events available every couple of months. Last November I attended the ... http://www.xterm.it/blog/2009/01/london-the-perl-city/ Bored at work? Try this out: O'Reilly Maker. This web app allows you to create your own customized O'Reilly cover. I gave it a try and this is the result: http://www.xterm.it/blog/2009/01/the-power-of-press/ UPDATE. The plugin is now hosted in the official Wordpress plugin directory and can be downloaded directly from its page. In my previous post I talked about the work I carried out for my MSc research project. Here is the Wordpress plugin that implements a simplified version of the summarization system ... http://www.xterm.it/blog/2009/01/post-summarizer-wordpress-plugin/