Hivelogic - The Narrative - Building Ruby, Rails, Subversion, Mongrel, and MySQL on Mac OS X

Hivelogic - The Narrative - Building Ruby, Rails, Subversion, Mongrel, and MySQL on Mac OS X: This is a great alternative to the simplistic Locomotive. I see Locomotive as a quick way to run Rails applications you want to evaluate, but this tutorial goes much further. It walk you through the installation of each component, whiich will make you feel a tad smarter at the end. The installation took quite some time on my G5 but was a great insight. And I could upgrade to the latest just by using the curl -l ftp:/each_website/each_path/* wisely. Great springboard to Ruby on Rails. Also the usage of Textmate in this development environment is precious, but that'll likely be another blog entry.

Taking My Gmail Offline

Went through an interesting article about GMail email storage and privacy and security concerns. What's the best and most secure way to keep all your emails? Is it to leave them on the GMail server or take a local copy? Well, talking about my own experience, local copies are good as long as the hard disks last and we all know they don't.

But still, read on, it's goood stuff... Taking My Gmail Offline

Micro Persuasion: Turn Gmail Into Your Personal Nerve Center

Micro Persuasion: Turn Gmail Into Your Personal Nerve Center

Excellent article about the extensive usage of GMail. These last years have seen so many products becoming mature and moving users from pc-based data to internet-based data. That was a concept we were envisioning one decade ago as Sci-Fi when here and now, it is happening. Great stuff.