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cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I got below error while i tried to run my application in fedora

libMagickCore.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory – /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rmagick-2.8.0/lib/RMagick2.so

To get solved of this error i executed

ldconfig /usr/local/lib

The Irony of the iPad: A GREAT Day for Open Technologies

With the announcement of the iPad, the usual suspects have come out decrying a closed, proprietary, fully locked down system.

For instance, a story on the top of Hacker News today says:

This is what I asked in January 2007 on this site, shortly after the original iPhone was launched:

“1. Will Apple lock down the iPhone, blocking Flash, Java, custom widgets, and open development from its new platform?

Diff Your Gist

NV has ported ucnv’s Diff for Gist Greasemonkey script to a Chrome Extension.

Links for section headings

Encouraged by some helpful user feedback, I've modified the HTML version of the Ruby on Rails Tutorial book to make links out of the section headings. This way, if you want to share a link to, say, Section 2.1, you can just right-click on the heading and select "Copy Link Location" to copy the URL into your clipboard buffer.

Iteration Shouldn’t Spin Your Wheels!

This article was originally included in the September issue of the Engine Yard Newsletter. To read more posts like this one, subscribe to the Engine Yard Newsletter.

In this series, Evan Phoenix, Rubinius creator and Ruby expert, presents tips and tricks to help you improve your knowledge of Ruby.

Ruby is a rich language that believes there should be more than one way to express yourself—the many ways of counting and iterating are no exception.

LOOP CHAT!

LOOP CHAT!

This is a dead simple proof of concept for a chat the comet way.

My motivation for creating this proof of concept is the lack of DEAD SIMPLE implementations of commet around.

Brightbox Gem v2.3.6 released

Today I’m pleased to announce a new revision of the Brightbox Deployment Gem, version 2.3.6. This release fixes some of the issues reported to us by our users, along with a few extra features.

GitHub Meetup SF #14

Join us on Thursday January 28th at 8:30pm for a drink at the Irish Bank! We’d hate to have to release the hounds.

Stop by for a surprise visitor!

The Dev Show Episode 1

Dan Benjamin and I have launched a new podcast called The Dev Show. We aim to talk about new things in the programming community and point out things that may be of interest to developers. The first episode focuses on domain names, mongo db, javascript and a couple of other topics. Check it out!

Correct, Beautiful, Fast (In That Order)

One of the books I am occasionally grazing on is Beautiful Code. The title of this post is the title of Chapter 6. I’ll be honest, I only skimmed the chapter as one can only digest so much Java, but the title is spot on.

Step 1: Correct (With Tests)

I have been thinking exactly this as of late, though I will admit in no way as succinctly. First, you get it working. It does not matter if it is dirty. Rather, what matters is that it functions and is well tested.

Episode 202: Active Record Queries in Rails 3 | Rails Fire

Episode 202: Active Record Queries in Rails 3

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Rails 3 introduces a new query interface for performing finds in Active Record. See how it works along with the changes in named scopes.

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