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Last year we had a bicycle trip to Mangup that I covered with Google map routes, bells and whistles. This year we had the same trip but in a different company. Nonetheless, it wasn’t less interesting. I took less pictures as the nature of that region was already covered, but focused on the trip, the air and views.

See some interesting stuff in my Flickr photostream.

Dreams eventually come true and I finally converted to Macs. I still have my 5-year old HP Compaq nx9005 with Win XP and Ubuntu running to my side for various tasks (like verifying the web sites I work on in IE), but all my ongoing work and music experiments shifted to a great Macbook Pro MB134 from the Apple’s latest line.

APPLE MacBook Pro MB134, 15.4″, Intel Core 2 Duo T9300 (2x 2.5GHz), 2×1024MB, 250GB, DVD±RW DL, nVidia GeForce 8600Md GT 512MB, 15.4″ WXGA+ (1440×900), LED-TFT, DVI, Gigabit-LAN, WLAN, Bluetooth 2.0, FireWire 400, FireWire 800, 2xUSB2.0, ExpressCard, WebCam, OSX 10.5 “Leopard”

There’s not much to say other than that I, as all migrants, feel like a huge army of nurses taking care of me all the time; so smooth Leopard’s interface and laptop hardware are. All these Spaces, Dashboards, Expose, Stacks, iCals, Frontrows and others feel like from a future. Even Rails, Apache, and PHP5 are pre-installed!

Well, hooray!

My gosh, I can’t believe I missed this. On May 21 Brightbox has announced a happy marriage of a revolutionary mod_rails (Passenger) project from Phusion to the excellent user-friendly Linux for the mere mortals — Ubuntu.

It means that the deployment and management of Rails applications becomes a breeze. I personally still prefer my very custom deployment setup — Nginx-Mongrel (for Rails) + Nginx-Apache (for PHP), but for those planning to unroll massive Rails hosting, it may be a famous Red Pill.

Love Rails!

3 hours ago Rails 2.1 was finally released into the wild, and there’s the officials report for your reading pleasure. I’m still a bit concerned about the RSpec compatibility, but since I already found a sufficient replacement — Shoulda and Mocha — there may not be as many worries.

So, let’s give it a round of aplause. Great job!