Chris Olsen

I watched Scott’s great screencast on Git and figured I should make use of the old server that I have sitting around. Unfortunately, my install didn’t go as smoothly as Scott’s, mostly because the Ubuntu server edition has a few less libraries than the developer edition. So to make things a little smoother for others here are the libraries that I had to install.

sudo apt-get install build-essential tcl8.4 tk8.4 gettext

# expat
  wget http://superb-west.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/expat/expat-2.0.1.tar.gz
  tar zxfv expat-2.0.1.tar.gz
  cd expat-2.0.1
  ./configure
  make
  make install

# curl
  wget http://curl.linux-mirror.org/download/curl-7.18.0.tar.gz
  tar zxfv curl-7.18.0.tar.gz
  cd curl-7.18.0/
  ./configure
  make prefix=/usr all
  make prefix=/usr all install

# zlib
  wget http://www.zlib.net/zlib-1.2.3.tar.gz
  tar -xzvf zlib-1.2.3.tar.gz
  cd zlib-1.2.3/
  ./configure
  make
  sudo make install

# openssl
  wget http://www.openssl.org/source/openssl-0.9.8c.tar.gz
  tar -xzvf openssl-0.9.8c.tar.gz
  cd openssl-0.9.8c/
  ./config --prefix=/usr/local/ssl-0.9.8c shared zlib-dynamic enable-camellia
  make depend
  make
  sudo make install

Now you should be able to install git

# git
  wget http://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/git-1.5.4.4.tar.gz
  tar -xzvf git-1.5.4.4.tar.gz
  cd git-1.5.4.4/
  make MOZILLA_SHA1=1 prefix=/usr all
  sudo make MOZILLA_SHA1=1 prefix=/usr install

The steps above may not be perfect as I posted them after retracing my steps after a successful install. My fingers are crossed.

** Update:
Thanks to Sascha for pointing out the — double dash issue. That’s what I get for being too lazy to enclose the script within pre tags.

Hopefully this saves someone a little time.

Tonight I was working away at a Tim Horton’s, since it is a change from my normal working space (their coffee is really not very good), when I get a message on my cell phone from a friend. The message read “Uh-oh, you’re in trouble”, followed by a link. It has been quite a while since I felt that sick that fast.

A site that I created a couple days ago was on the front page of wilbit.com and not in a good way. The reason was a simple one, I just violated the 11th commandment.

I created a small app (~8-10 hours of work) to allow me to track my spending since tax time coming up and who wants to use a spreadsheet to enter data where a web application could do the same thing. So, of course, that is what I have to do.

I have this issue with creating apps that I can’t do it with no styles, it seems to through my focus out the door. I like to have things looking nice while creating. I didn’t feel like designing something since it would have doubled the time required on the app so I copied the beanstalk app layout.

After inserting some of my transactions I figured before I wasted too much time I should just make it a public app, because maybe, just maybe there is someone else out there that would use it, and after all I have a extremely slow site5 account that I already paid for a year upfront that I am not using, so why not. So I added the ability to create an account, made a couple of quick fixes and deployed.

I guess I didn’t put myself in the other person’s shoes to whom I copied from and I really really apologize for it. Sometimes when you get the deployment rush, even for small apps like this, your primary goal is to get it up on the sever and you lose sight of other important things.

The worst thing is that I only told three people about the app, two friends and my mom. Oh, the humiliation.

I wish I would’ve checked my email earlier and took care of things before the blog post was made, but that is a lesson to me in trying to manage my time better my keeping my email turned off while I am working.

Once again my apologies to Chris Nagle* and the team at Wildbit.

*Owns and operates Wilbit, that has created Beanstalk. Beanstalk is a really good app for keeping your projects on, and highly recommend it to anyone that hasn’t caught the Git bug that is going around.