A Timebomb in My PowerBook!?

Aug 26

Ian FieldhouseApple, Hardware No Comments

It turns out that the battery in my 12" PowerBook G4 is one of the ones Apple wishes to recall. I've filled in the form and Apple are sending me a new one out in the mail but it's going to take 4-6 weeks to arrive. I'm going to be travelling down to London twice in that timeframe so hope that BA don't decide to follow Quantas' lead and consider banning Apple batteries from the cabin.I know Apple recommend that you remove the offending battery immedisately and run the PowerBook on mains power only, but that isn't really an option for me right now so I will be dicing with death and continuing to use my battery until the replacement arrives. Wish me luck!

Ruby on Rails will ship with OS X 10.5

Aug 08

Ian FieldhouseApple, Mac OS X, Ruby on Rails, Software No Comments

This is a great bit of news as the first thing I do on an install of Mac OS X is download compile and install all the various bits and pieces to get Ruby on Rails up and running. My ideal situation would be that this will be upgradable through software update and that setting up Rails apps with Apache would be handled through the Server Admin tools, but I won't hold my breath on that one.Anyway, this is great exposure for Rails so hats off to Apple for including this and congratulations to all the Rails team.

The developer seed that was distributed today at WWDC contains Ruby 1.8.4 and Rails 1.1.2, but we fully expect to have Rails 1.2.x along with Mongrel, SQLite bindings, and lots of other Ruby goodies on the final gold master when it goes out in spring.It’s been no secret that Apple is held in very high regard by the Rails community. Every single Rails Core contributer is running on Apple and the vast majority of Rails developers are too. To see Apple acknowledge this and return the favor is very rewarding.

Ruby on Rails will ship with OS X 10.5 (Leopard) (Via Riding Rails)