Andrew Chalkley's (Micro) Blog

Welcome to my (micro-)blog. I am a coder, an atheist, a cool dad and an awesome husband :)

Fix SQLite3 Error on Ruby Enterprise Edition

If you get the following error:

no such file to load — sqlite3/database 

When using upgrading to ruby-enterprise-1.8.6-20080624

To fix it all your need to do is:

$ cd /opt/ruby-enterprise-1.8.6-20080624/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/sqlite3-ruby-1.2.2/lib/sqlite3
$ sudo chmod +r *

Restart your app and voila!

Web 2.0: The Machine is Us/ing Us

My Film4 Mash-up Entry: Runner up!

One day when reading a post on TechCrunch UK about Channel 4 launching a competition on creating a widget using at least one Film 4 feed and a feed from somewhere else; a mash-up.

I flexed my fingers, got out my jQuery hat and coded away. 

Today I found out that I was one of the two joint runners up in the competition. 

My entry can be found at film4.chalkley.org. Content is sourced live from Film4 RSS feeds (XML: Today’s Film4 ListingsCinema New Releases), Apple trailer XML feeds (XML: LargeHD 480pHD 720p) and dynamically generated Technorati Blog search queries (XML: Example Film4 Query).

New Blog, New Domain.

I have not only moved home, city and job but also domain and blogging service.

I have gone from the old androo.co.uk to andrew.chalkley.org as I rearly use the nickname androo to sign email or as usernames any more and using my own name is a little more grown up.

I have decided to use tumblr, a micro-blogging service as it impressed me from it’s simple UI and level of customisation (e.g. your own domain).

I figure micro-blogging is the way forward for myself as I don’t get chance to write a lot of long articles because of some of my other personal projects and interests take considerable amount of time.

So expect little more frequently than a lot periodically.