Monthly Archives: May 2008

Facebook Profile

Choosing your profile picture (from PhD Comics – extras included) Original comic here.

Ruby on Rails and mysql connection problems

If you are losing connection to mysql every so often on OSX (I’m using 10.5 Leopard), it’s probably because you do not have the native C ruby-mysql bindings. If your error looks like this: Mysql::Error: Lost connection to MySQL server during query: then try the following. Verify that the bindings are really not present. In [...]

Grounds for your garden

Did you know that you can get coffee grounds for free from any Starbucks? Just walk in and ask for ‘Grounds for your Garden’ and you will receive a huge bag of used coffee grounds that you can use to dress up your soil. If you live in Arizona, you probably need some acidity in [...]