January 24th, 2008

Well I rang in the New Year with a lot of change, well mostly just quiting. I quit my job at CAESY a Patterson Company, smoking and apparently quit posting to my blog. I’ve been having some troubles with DreamHost this month. First I realized that this months bill was 12 times bigger. But they apperently overbilled a lot of people. I personally know quite a few. But let me know if it happened to you also, I am taking an informal survey.

Then they upgraded to their Rails to 2.0.2. I use Mephisto, which was last updated by Justin Palmer on July 26th 2006. Who btw I got to meet at the Kongregate New Years Party. So yeah, prob’ly doesn’t work. Quick fix:

From your RAILS_ROOT

rake rails:freeze:edge TAG=rel_1-2-5

killall -USR1 dispatch.fcgi

touch public/dispatch.fcgi

But more than a fix its as good lesson. Freeze your gems once you are stable, especially your rails! You can always upgrade manually.

I also just finished and released my first Facebook application, Ticket Yo-Yo. It interfaces with Free Ticket Exchange, a social ticket sharing site (still in Beta). Ticket Yo-Yo application might not be open to the public yet, turned over control to the cool dudes at Step Change Group. Here’s a screen shot.