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Pownce - Taken out of the oven too early?

So I got a Pownce invite at the start of the week (thanks rappy) and I’ve been using it on and off all week.

Overall I like it but I can’t help but feel like it’s only half finished, the site is incredibly slow and the amount of javascript is so painful and not exactly required for it to work, digg the same problem, the javascript cripples firefox if you have too many tabs open.

It needs so optimization and an api, if they can get those two out then it will rock, I’ve not even bothered with the AIR client. For me Twitter has a better overall experience with sms support and so many choices of interaction in the form of desktop clients and widgets, the only thing twitter lacks is the private post option.

Anyway, add me as a friend: http://pownce.com/andrewnez

I can has lolcatz?

From icanhascheezeburger

Rmagick on Ubuntu Gotcha

I’ve been caught out by this a couple of times so I thought I would sort post it here as a reminder and helper:

Installing my rails stack on a Ubuntu VPS at Slicehost for my new rails site which uses Imagemagick for photo handling, rails uses rmagick gem to interface with it. I did this:

sudo apt-get install imagemagick

and then go to install the rmagick gem with:

sudo gem install rmagick

but get this error:

configure: error: Can't install RMagick. Can't find Magick-config or GraphicsMagick-config program.

Weird, but it turns out you need a little something extra to be able to install RMagick which is “libmagick9-dev” so just install this:

sudo apt-get install libmagick9-dev

and then you can install the rmagick gem just fine, hope this helps someone out.

Testers needed for Ruby on Rails Web App

I’ve been working on a little project which has reached a stage where I’m in need of some testers to help me check that it all works ok and to give some feedback on usability and such.

No programming or testing experience required, just as long as you know how to use a mouse and email!

I might even be able to sort out some kind of awesome prize (or at least a free t-shirt)

Email me if your interested