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I just watched the new screencast from Google I/O about Google Wave. The Wave team is doing some amazing things with JavaScript and HTML5. I can't wait to try it out! Here's the preview screencast on YouTube:

 

 

I had an interesting thing happen tonight while deploying a new version of a site to staging. After deploy I navigated to the site and got an Application Error Rails application failed to start properly.

I ssh'd in to the site and ran some commands and got the following error:

WARNING: #<Errno::ESTALE: Stale NFS file handle - /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/specifications/rack-1.0.0.gemspec>

WARNING: Invalid .gemspec format in '/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/specifications/rack-1.0.0.gemspec'

 

There are various references on google with regards to the linux Stale NFS file handle. As the error suggests the filesystem got hosed and needed to be remounted and the apache service had to be reconfigured.

Once this was done I was back in business.

 

I finally got my blog online, it's been a long time coming. As a Ruby on Rails developer I really wanted to use a rails powered blog and not just use Wordpress. Wordpress is cool and I've set many a site up for clients but I had heard good things and bad things about Typo and wanted to try it out for myself.

I actually like Typo, it's pretty simple and I was able to thoroughly tweak the source to suit my needs. I'm sure I'll be tweaking more. I also created a quick design and easily turned it into a theme which was pretty easy to do. I'll have to ask some of my designer friends to create me a nice one soon.

I ran into some gotchas while configuring Typo with Dreamhost which I'll post about soon.

First post. It’s a-blog time!