Glimmer

Dave Green

Things that I am thinking about or learning (either through reading or by school of hard knocks). These are my personal thoughts and not necessarily the positions or thoughts of any organization I am associated with.

Using Bitnami’s Rubystack on VirtualBox Linux with Vagrant

June 6, 2013 3 minute read

In my Software Engineering Projects class, we are going to do a RAILS-based project. Based on feedback from last year’s class, I am furnishing students with...

Adding to a non-privileged users path in Windows 7

June 5, 2013 less than 1 minute read

Does it have to be this hard?

Tumbling out!

May 27, 2013 1 minute read

In a long overdue action, I have moved the glimmer blog out of Tumblr. I had been wanting to use (Multi-)Markdown more in blogging to continue my focusing o...

Safe Boot is back (in OS X10.8.3) with FileVault

April 14, 2013 1 minute read

Safe booting for FileVault users is now possible again in OS X 10.8.3. As always, you hold down the (left) shift key right after the chime when booting. Yo...

Exploring stately for Ruby

January 19, 2013 less than 1 minute read

As someone who has built a hardware-based Morse Code sending system, I am very interested in state machines and their implementation.