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I’m using locomotivecms for a project I’m working on, and it uses ImageMagick for resizing pictures on the fly. The standard instructions say to use the bitnami Ruby stack installer to get everything you need in a nice neat bundle. That worked for me for a while, until I needed to update the version of ruby I’m using. So, I went through the long and painful process of uninstalling the ruby stack, installing each component individually, identifying and correcting a ton of minor problems, and finally squashed the last bug by writing this program. ...

The best part is it’s only half over! I’m writing this post from the home of my good friend Aldo Rustemi, in Tirana the capital city of Albania. So much has happened, and so much more is to come. It’s awesome :) Wien, Österreich We began the trip in Vienna, where we went sightseeing just the three of us (me, Lucy and Chris). Vienna in the winter is amazing, especially when there’s snow on the ground. ...

My friends and I were discussing christian music last night. The main line of discussion was the lack of realness & relevance of most christian songs. Most of them end up a bit like this: When we turn worship leaders into recording artists, we get worship songs. Worship songs are great for “worship” (i.e. that thing we do on Sunday mornings), but the problem is that in reality, everything is supposed to be worship. ...

I decided to use Amazon EC2 to host the blog, because they give you 1 year free on a micro instance. Plus I’ve always wanted to learn how to host something on Amazon’s cloud. I’ll get a linux instance and put an Apache HTTP server on it. Should be easy enough to do. Here’s my EC2 management console after signing up for an Amazon account and creating a linux micro instance:  ...

Well, here it is. I’ve been wanting to create a blog for a while. I don’t know what it will look like in the future, or how often I’ll update it, but as I sit here writing it it’s kind of cathartic. It would be good to get some thoughts out there, and if anybody reads it that’s a bonus. I want to talk about anything and everything on this blog. I’ll delve into my work, hopefully some of these pages will be useful when another developer types some obscure error code into google. I’ll discuss my faith, hopefully that could spark some interesting discussion. I’ll discuss the important stuff that happens in my life, hopefully someone might find it interesting. ...