Upgrading to Snow Leopard

I picked up Snow Leopard from the Apple store on my lunch break today. When I got back to the office I popped the disc into my Macbook Pro, upgrading from Leopard. About an hour later I had Snow Leopard running nicely, almost. Here's what I ran into:

1. All of my sym links were deleted from /usr/local/, so MySQL stopped working, as did my Tomcat scripts. This was easily fixed by recreating them:

cd /usr/local
sudo ln -s apache-tomcat-6.0.20 tomcat
sudo ln -s mysql-5.1.35-osx10.5-x86 mysql

2. LimeChat stopped working, it would crash immediately on launch. The LimeChat site recommends deleting /Library/Frameworks/RubyCocoa.framework but to play it safe, I just moved mine.

The following command fixed it:

sudo mv RubyCocoa.framework RubyCocoa.framework_OLD

3. "-bash: git: command not found" Apparently the /usr/local/git/bin fell out of my system path, add the following to the end of your ~/.profile file:

export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/git/bin:.


4. MySQL Ruby gem no longer found. Snow Leopard actually required me to install the 64-bit version of MySQL. This trumps the symlink changes you might have made above

Follow these excellent instructions by Matt Aimonetti about MySQL (make sure you install XCode from the Snow Leopard DVD):

http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2009/8/30/upgrading-to-snow-leopard



That's it for now, I'll continue to update this post as I find and resolve issues.

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Earfl Public API Launch

Today, earfl launched their RESTful API. With it you can attach and collect voice for anything. They provide custom dial-in numbers, tagging, search, custom greetings, embeddable players and a Ruby gem for making integration as fast as possible.

In the next release you can expect support for machine tags and more documentation.

The main API docs page can be found at:
http://www.earfl.com/apidocs

Check out their gem on Rubyforge at:
http://earfl.rubyforge.org/

If you're interested in getting on their developer mailing list please see:
http://groups.google.com/group/earfl

Enjoy!

earfl is in beta!

Earfl is a new kind of site, allowing it's users to do voice posts on their blogs using only their cell phones. They allow tags, geo-tagging, and sharing of the audio stories making them easy to listen to. You can also use Trudat (earfl's facebook app) to ask your friends questions, and use their mobile phone to answer. Once they do, you can listen, rate, and share them online.

Check out my voice feed below, it will always contain my 3 most recent audio blog stories: