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A great compilation by Vostok Studios on what great designers think about design.

It took me an hour to properly install the latest versions of ruby, rails and its mysql binder. Although its less than a 5 mins task, I had to search in forums, blogs to deal with the various errors. So just posting this so its easy for someone else to get done with this in 5 mins.

1. Open Terminal and install RVM (Ruby Version Manager)

2. Enter the following in ~/.bash_profile and/or ~/.bashrc (replace YOUR USER NAME with the username you’re logged in with):

3. Install Ruby 1.9.2

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It’s been a while since we’ve been thinking about moving to Mercurial from Subversion at our company. We were convinced about the benefits of DVCS and chose Mercurial over Git. However, due to pressure at work and some procrastination, the move was delayed a couple times. Finally, today we had the move and the team is already up to speed with it.

Although it’s quite simple to install it in a central server, the different articles on the web had me confused with too many options or with a different distro than Ubuntu. So, here is a dead simple list of things to do for installing Mercurial centrally for your dev team.

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First, a very happy new year to everybody!!! The last year has showed me the ups and downs of life and I believe 2011 will be a great year. Some of my wishes in 2011 would be:

• Re-shaping my company to become a major OSS based company in Bangladesh
• Doing something meaningful for my country
• Learning Ruby and related frameworks (Rails, Cucumber, etc)
• Spending more time my family
• Having more fun with my friends
• Living a healthy life

I presented this talk yesterday on the phpXperts seminar 2010 – the largest PHP group in Bangladesh. My objective was to give a quick overview on project structure, development practices and use of tools to improve the overall quality of the PHP projects.

So here goes the presentation: