openSUSE 11.3 contrib packages are usable

openSUSE 11.3 contrib repository contains usable packages. So I introduce some packages

(1) vim plugins

There are many plugins to improve vim.

(2) nginx

The HTTP server suitable LL frameworks.

(3) chromium

It's just Chrome port for Linux. But before, we had built from source by myself with long long hours. And now, in openSUSE 11.3 contrib repository, we just install it. Of course, chromium supports Chrome's themes.

A short impression of MeeGo Seminar Summer 2010

3 days ago, MeeGo Seminar Summer 2010 was held in Shinagawa, Tokyo. There are some sessions about Qt and QML. But most impressed thing in these sessions is "OviStore is not ready for QML applications". We still may remain to create Qt applications.

Ruby 1.9.2 RC2 had been released

A half month ago, ruby 1.9.2 RC2 was already released. I installed for Linux and for MinGW. Ruby 1.9.2 RC2 can work on openSUSE 11.3 correctly.

openSUSE 11.3 was released

One week ago during I was in summer vacation, openSUSE 11.3 was released. From this version, You can choice either MySQL Community or MariaDB. I choice MariaDB. Of course, we can set run-level as same as MySQL Community.

Timetables of RubyKaigi2010 are revealed

Timetables of RubyKaigi2010 are revealed now.

• Timetable in English
• Timetable in Japanese

In my opinion, all sessions I want to join are not overlapping, happily!

Summer vacation 2010

I take a summer vacation, so I suspend posts and comments to this blog for a moment. Resume will be July 20, 2010.

MacPorts upgraded, Newest Ruby and JRuby are available

Repositry tree of MacPorts has been upgraded, and now, Ruby 1.9.1 p429 and JRuby 1.5.0 are both available.

$ sudo port selfupdate
$ sudo port outdated
...
jruby                          1.4.0_0 < 1.5.0_0
...
ruby19                         1.9.1-p378_0 < 1.9.1-p429_0
...
$ sudo port upgrade outdated
$ sudo port -f activate jruby @1.5.0_0
$ jruby -v
jruby 1.5.0 (ruby 1.8.7 patchlevel 249) (2010-07-05 6586) (Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM 1.6.0_20) [x86_64-java]
$ ruby1.9 -v
ruby 1.9.1p429 (2010-07-02 revision 28523) [i386-darwin10]

I learned the sudo port -f activate jruby @1.5.0_0 instrucation. If I upgrade library on my MacPorts upto major version, sometimes needs sudo port -f activate library @version .

Ruby 1.9.2 RC1 was released

At the same time on Ruby 1.9.1 p429 release, Ruby 1.9.2 RC1 was also released. Of course, It's ready for Linux and MinGW, see corresponding instructions on these articles(for Linux / for MinGW).

If you fail MinGW instruction, you may success with --srcdir=. option.

Youhei@3935-CF61 ~/ruby-1.9.2-rc1 $ ./configure --prefix=c:/ruby-1.9.1 --enable-shared --srcdir=.
Youhei@3935-CF61 ~/ruby-1.9.2-rc1 $ make
Youhei@3935-CF61 ~/ruby-1.9.2-rc1 $ make install

Ruby 1.9.1 p429 was released BUT SEGV occurs

Yesterday, Ruby 1.9.1 p429 was released. So I download from here and install its package like this entry. But, SEGV occur in make instrunction.

SEGV shows below:

Fukuoka Pref. starts to lead the development of FPGA chips for Ruby

There have been AWESOME news in last week, Fukuoka Prefecture and its partners had announced that they start the development of two Ruby technologies. The first one is lightweight Ruby subset for embedded systems. The second one is FPGA (field-programmable gate arrays) chip optimized for Ruby. If you can read Japanese, see these link below.

• Fukuoka Prefecture's announcement (In Japanese)
• Nikkei IT Pro : Japanese news source (In Japanese)