Daniel Evans

I'm going to be presenting this year at the Utah Open Source Conference.

I'll be presenting on two subjects. An introduction to Ruby and an introduction to Capybara.

I've been installing Ubuntu 11.04 at last. Unfortunately, rvm choked up. It claimed to install properly, but choked when trying to do the simplest gem commands.

ERROR:  Loading command: install (LoadError)
    no such file to load -- zlib
ERROR:  While executing gem ... (NameError)
    uninitialized constant Gem::Commands::InstallCommand

The solution was hidden in some comments in stack overflow.

rvm pkg install zlib
rvm uninstall 1.8.7 #this can be 1.9.2 or ree, whatever
rvm install 1.8.7 --with-zlib-dir=$rvm_path/usr

Fixed.

A new game has been announced and it might just be worth watching.

I was on the fence about Herman Cain after the presidential debate. However, he just made a choice which crosses him off my list of "maybe good" candidates.

He advocated the banning of mosques.

I dislike the idea of Islam since it is the most dangerous and oppressive religion in the world today. But if someone wants to buy property and build a mosque on it with their own money, what right do we have to use the government to stop them?

We can protest and we can speak out. We should not use the government as a weapon against the people who follow a religion.

A woman is arrested for speaking out against a price hike on water and sewer. She did it in a legal and orderly manner, when the city council had given her time in a meeting in which to do it.

Why, then, did the chief of police have her arrested over the vocal objection of the mayor? Now they have beefed up security and declared an emergency while the mayor goes to the governor to stop his own chief of police.