Abnormalities

After a long time without one word here, here I’m with a long text about nothing more than some thoughts about life.

What makes you happy? What makes you go forward? On my case is the unsure of the things that are to came, the unexpected.

The last weeks are beeing hard, a lot of changes and new challenges. Something to make me think about life, work, and what I really want.

More than money and prestige, I’m looking for a good place to live, a good neighborhood and some good time with my family.

I’m having the opportunity of work as developer at Hoodiny with a great team for the last ten months. I’m very glad with all things that we did together.

I think it’s time to try different things - not related with work. Maybe a trip with my family. Or start a new sport. Maybe learn violin, maybe just read more books - I’m not sure.

Starting the day working, and going sleep right after finish work, Monday to Monday, is not exactly something healthy.

I really need improve my use of time. So I just left twitter, msn, gtalk and social networks. Cool - now I’m working more - less wasted time.

Now I need allocate some time to have fun.

So, that’s it, I’m always moving forward and trying new stuff.

I’m thinking study something about the tools and methods that I’m using to control my time and manage my work - the results will be published here soon.

c’ya

RGhost and RGhost-Rails

I really like the report resulted from an EPS Template. RGhost do this with perfection - lines and elements very good defined on the document. Quick, precise and light - yeah - do all the job without a lot of processing and memory consumption.

I started on a project with RGhost, but some issues with my environment after installing the last version of Xcode or after removing the MacPorts made me change the library - unfortunatelly - because I really enjoyed in using it and because I didn’t find other so cool like this one.

Ok, it isn’t so easy to draw each item on your position - we are talking about PDF reports on web - with Rails - without that bloated IDEs and without report design tools. :P

Prawn and Prawnto

Simplicity and no dependencies. There are a lot of missing features - but it works. There are some examples of Prawn use on the Prawnto homepage.

No EPS support yet - but it does the work fine. I enjoyed the result but there are some issues with the cpu processment from these gems - took a lot of time to generate the report here - maybe this impression was caused by the RGhost - since was my first attempt with Ruby and PDF reports.

So - both tools do the job - if you want EPS support and a ghostscript dependency isn’t a problem for you - RGhost is the perfect tool. But if you need a pure implementation and no advanced formatting text features - Prawn works fine too.

Yeah, I played Prototype until the end. Nice game, not the best that I already played, but you can have a lot of fun with this game.

New York is the city, the year I can’t remember, but you start the game trying remember what happened to you and who are you.

As you can see at the screenshot, the game is very violent, with a lot of scenes with blood and mutilated bodies.

You can upgrade your biological weapons, upgrade your movements, well, many new abilities can be unlocked completing the missions and side missions.

There is a network that you can build consuming people that have some important information about you. Each time you hurt and consume people and some hunters - a kind of super man without skin and that walk like monkey - you can upgrade your abilities or see what is in his mind - like messed memories or special training (helicopters and tanks needs these special abilities to be piloted).

You can disguise yourself as some people that you consumed. This is required on some missions - so you can access military buildings.

In a nut shell: a great game to you spend some time. Worth each cent.

I know, RMagick is a pain in the ass. But sometimes you need handle with old projects or some dependencies that makes you do it. So, for these cases, you need it installed.

Normally you just do something like:

$ sudo gem install rmagick

But at this time, didn’t. My installation was not able to find the MagickWand.h file.

I decided remove all ununsed stuff from my computer, like MacPorts, and other libraries to try solve that (this was decided after compile ImageMagick from the source 2 times and the error persisted), updated paths, changed some params, etc.

After remove all dependencies, compile a lot of things again, the result was: nothing.

Actually, no, nothing is something that didn’t happen. My ruby install started give me segmentation fault with some gems. Ok, reinstall ruby, right? Wrong.

My issue was related with ImageMagick 6.5.6-5, downloading and compiling 6.5.6-10 from the source solved my problem.

So, with all this mess, at least, I updated all my gems, libraries, ruby version and started to use Homebrew, a nice package manager for Mac. But this is the subject from the next post.

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