Jonathan Clarke @ Beilabs.com

Ubuntu & MongoDB, match made in heaven

Thu, 21 Jan 2010 05:35:05 +0000

install dependencies:

sudo aptitude install build-essential git-core libboost-dev libpcre3 libpcre3-dev scons xulrunner-1.9-dev  libboost-thread-dev libboost-filesystem-dev libboost-program-options-dev libboost-date-time-dev fakeroot dpkg-dev libpcap-dev

$ git clone --depth=1 git://github.com/mongodb/mongo.git
$ cd mongo
$ chmod 755 debian/rules

edit debian/control and remove ", xulrunner-1.9-dev" from "Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}, xulrunner-1.9-dev"

$ dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -b
$ sudo dpkg -i ../mongodb_1.3.1_i386.deb

Things to focus on this year

Tue, 19 Jan 2010 10:19:16 +0000

Thesis: E-commerce in the third world. This will be complete in August this year, follow me on @givefoo for updates.

Weight: For too long this past year I have let myself get lazy and fat. Goal for end of Feb is to be 2 kilos lighter than I was on 1st January, walking back from the office (couple of miles) when I’m there, and soon will be hitting the gym much more often.

The next step is to get qualified and to get permanent residency for Australia. The process first involves getting qualified with the Australian Computer Society, they like taking money and reading examination transcripts. Fun.

Graduation in Ireland, this happens in November 2010, if I pass that is.

Railscamp 7 is happening in Canberra in April this year. I’m going to be focusing my efforts on getting sections of my rails application offline with the wonders of HTML5, bring on the Werewolf and Mexican.

Getting more involved in the community, I’ve been slacking in not being able to attend various ruby group meetings, silicon beach drink sessions and other open coffee mornings….this shall improve.

This blog needs an overhaul, just in content mind you. I have not been posting regularly enough lately. This shall change.

My predictions for 2010

Sat, 26 Dec 2009 13:42:52 +0000

Rails 3 will cause a deluge of former PHP/ASP developers into #rubyonrails
Avatar 2 will be announced, Halloween 2010 will have a plethora of blue skinned women….
The number of Android users will drastically rise when teenagers realize there is nothing stopping them from getting pornography on their shiny Google phone.
Robert Jordan will release a 13th book, 3 years after his death.
There will be an Irish Railscamp….now with even more beer.
Techcrunch will lose the lawsuit for JooJoo while Paul Carr is fired for joking about it on his weekly column
YCombinator will turn into a Digg clone
The most wanted item for Christmas 2010 will be the Take-Twos release of Duken Nukem Forever 13 years after commencing development (I’m holding out that the code will be open sourced / court case pending)
I will finally launch my very own startup and it will not suck
2010 will be the year of MongoDB

So what have we learned this year?

Sun, 04 Oct 2009 15:13:38 +0100

So the Lisbon treaty was passed finally by the people of Ireland this weekend. I’m not entirely sure how I should react to this news. I’ve been abroad for both the initial referendum as well as for Lisbon 2, yet I’ve been keeping track of the arguments for and against for some time.

As an impartial observer (I have no allegiance to any political party mainly due to the fact that I’ve been traveling for so long) I find it incredibly interesting that nothing has changed in the Lisbon Treaty since it was last rejected. So what is different?

12.6% unemployment throughout the country was announced in September. That is a huge number. It’s a number that has shocked people with many talking about being reminded of the 1980s, having to leave the country and seek better lives. For the past number of months there has been a huge media campaign by various organizations pushing for a Yes vote. Will voting yes bring back jobs? I have no idea. Lets wait and see.

Ireland was once heralded as a low cost nation, manufacturers flocked to the country to set up shop to reap as much profit from a skilled workforce as possible. People wanted what their neighbors had, (house extensions, cars, holidays), got easy loans from the banking sector without realizing their neighbors also had debt coming out of their eyeballs. It was party time in Ireland, everyone had their hand out looking for grants, “free” European money for their own pet project and live was awesome.

So now the hangover has kicked in. The manufacturers realized that the Irish were pulling the piss (low level job positions looking for crazy money), got fed up and moved out of the country. People have been watching over their shoulder, wary that their job is on the line (of course only I can do this job) forgetting that EVERYONE IS EXPENDABLE. Anyone can be trained in any position, in any industry.

The next step for Ireland? Well, now we seem to think the country is the darling of Europe again, by saying yes to Lisbon we’re back in the club and everything will be magically better once more. We need to take a long hard look in the mirror, focus on our strengths and aim on being a world-beater.

I’m proud to be Irish, I’m proud that we’re always considered the underdog but I’ll be prouder when we stop feeling sorry for ourselves, sorry for our past and concentrate on our future. Lets hold ourselves accountable for our mistakes and please god learn from them.

Some questions that are being asked in Iran...

Tue, 16 Jun 2009 14:23:00 +0100

When will the recount occur?
Why were there more ballot papers issued than were counted?
Why did areas loyal to the opposition not get enough ballot papers?
Why were the polling stations closed early?
Who will perform the recount?
Does this recount null and void the previous result?
Why is there not more about this in the mainstream news?
Why has the current regieme imposed harsh restrictions on communications in and out of the country?

The worlds innovation hubs mapped out. Sad that Ireland is not...

Mon, 15 Jun 2009 04:35:41 +0100

The worlds innovation hubs mapped out. Sad that Ireland is not even mentioned on this map.

See the full article here from the Guardian

Jonathan Clarke's Shared Items

Wed, 10 Jun 2009 00:57:00 +0100

So the world and their mother should now know that I have a brand new Google Ion/HTC magic phone. It’s seriously kickass. Anyhow, one of the applications I have fallen in love with is NewsRob, it allows me to sync all of my unread google items, read them offline, add stars and share them at will, once I come back into wifi it uploads all unread/shared items. So I’m finding myself on a train without wifi for about 3 hours every day I head to work and I’ve been getting through my enormous set of RSS feeds.

The articles I’ve been thinking are the cream of the crop are now being shared at this link, if your one of my contacts in Google you should already be getting it. If not, just check it out and subscribe here.

Git acts weird when trailing whitespaces are involved.

Thu, 04 Jun 2009 07:45:06 +0100

So here i was commiting webrat to git when I came across the following error

All is once again well in the world

Ireland should be ashamed of itself…not for the faint of...

Tue, 26 May 2009 11:02:28 +0100

Ireland should be ashamed of itself…not for the faint of heart.

O’Reilly Webcast: How to Build a Lean Startup, Step by...

Tue, 19 May 2009 00:05:27 +0100

O’Reilly Webcast: How to Build a Lean Startup, Step by Step

The Irish Broadcasting Bill 2009 - what a rip off...

Thu, 07 May 2009 04:29:00 +0100

From http://stochasticgeometry.wordpress.com”, The Broadcasting Bill 2009 (currently in the last stages of becoming the Broadcasting Act 2009 and then being commenced into law in Ireland) has thrown up a rather unpleasant little nugget for broadband users in Ireland. It now defines a television set as being an electronic apparatus able to receive TV signals or “any software or assembly comprising such apparatus” which would mean that even if you haven’t got a television set, even if you don’t watch streaming content from RTE.ie (the state broadcaster’s website), you’d still have to pay 160 euro a year for a television license for your iPhone, or netbook, or laptop or desktop if you have fixed or mobile broadband.”

I’m not a particular fan of this happening. This makes the assumption, that if you are in Ireland and use the internet, do not watch television and RTE’s crap content, then you are going to still have to pay for a television licence. How the hell did this get under the radar? This will also mean that should you have a tv tuner on your laptop you will also have to stump up for a licence.

Frankly, Ireland should be completely up in arms about this. People have been talking about rip off Ireland for years, this is yet another nail in the coffin of its citizens.

Quite addicted to this song lately. Getting great airplay in...

Wed, 06 May 2009 05:33:00 +0100

Quite addicted to this song lately. Getting great airplay in Ireland, might be getting sick of it if I was living there though…

Rails Lab .:. Expert advice on tuning and optimizing your Rails app

Wed, 29 Apr 2009 04:41:51 +0100

Rails Lab .:. Expert advice on tuning and optimizing your Rails app

Erin Go Broke - NYTimes.com

Mon, 27 Apr 2009 01:40:49 +0100

Erin Go Broke - NYTimes.com:

And the lesson of Ireland is that you really, really don’t want to put yourself in a position where you have to punish your economy in order to save your banks.

Deploy Your Rails Application in 2 Minutes with Heroku // Elijah Miller

Sat, 25 Apr 2009 21:39:54 +0100

Deploy Your Rails Application in 2 Minutes with Heroku // Elijah Miller

Integrity | The easy and fun automated continuous integration server

Thu, 23 Apr 2009 01:32:53 +0100

Integrity | The easy and fun automated continuous integration server

Stefano’s Linotype » Why Programmers Suck at CSS Design

Wed, 22 Apr 2009 15:32:35 +0100

Stefano’s Linotype » Why Programmers Suck at CSS Design

Finding a cure for cancer...

Wed, 22 Apr 2009 15:01:30 +0100

I find it ironic that Einstein wrote “The only possibility...

Tue, 21 Apr 2009 00:41:07 +0100

I find it ironic that Einstein wrote

“The only possibility of preventing war is to prevent the possibility of war. International peace can be achieved only if every individual uses all of his power to exert pressure on the United States to see that it takes the leading part in world government. The United Nations … will be effective only if no one neglects his duty in his private environment. If he does [neglect it], he is responsible for the death of our children in a future war.”

Quite sad right now. All politicians are idiots. By ignoring the problem will not make it go away.

Posting this just because we had a Sound of Music party last...

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 06:04:11 +0100

Posting this just because we had a Sound of Music party last night….oh the things we students do…