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Re: Ruby on Rails—Killer Workflow with Docker (Part 1)

mikefarmer — Wed, 23 May 2018 18:08:56 -0000

Thank you for the response. I haven't started looking into inotify yet. As I'm sure you are aware, MacOS is the predominant OS for Rails developers and has been since the very early days. I would love to see a solution come forth from docker or Apple that addresses the performance issues. Until then, I may be looking at running Linux on my Mac to get this workflow to work smoothly. The only other option at this point to go with a traditional Vagrant option or setup the environment natively.

Re: Ruby on Rails—Killer Workflow with Docker (Part 1)

mikefarmer — Mon, 21 May 2018 17:17:02 -0000

We have been attempting to get a setup similar to this working for several months now and we always run into the same problem: performance. There is a known issue with IO on mounted volume on Docker For Mac. There have been many creative solutions put out by the community to address this issue, the most popular being http://docker-sync.io. While that is getting us through for the time being, it is still wrought with issues, most notably file system events not triggering a sync when files change. This results in requiring a full reboot of rails and webpack to get the container to recognize changes.

For some of our developers, they've found running a full linux virtual machine for all their development the only workable solution for Mac users. I'm wondering if any developers at Auth0 have run into these same issues and how they were able to mitigate.

Thanks for taking the time to put this series of blog posts together.

Re: Rexburg water sample tested positive for E. coli

mikefarmer — Fri, 29 Sep 2017 19:40:23 -0000

Have their been any reported cases? If not I'll report myself. I work in Northwest Rexburg and have been down for three days with E Coli. Many of our employees have also been sick with stomach flu like symptoms. Not saying it's cause and affect but maybe the story needs a little more than a staff writer at this point.

Re: Idaho Falls city leaders have big plans for downtown redevelopment

mikefarmer — Sat, 28 Jan 2017 12:23:53 -0000

Please hire my thirteen year old as a copy editor. The grammar and typos in this article are an embarrassment.

Re: ADD Meds - Greg Baugues

mikefarmer — Mon, 15 Jun 2015 11:46:03 -0000

This is a great post. I too am working off a medication right now called Cymbalta. I take it for neuropathy in my feet. I've been taking it for about 3 years and I'm ready to try life without it. While it definitely helped with the pain, I too noticed some bad side-effects from my medicine. I felt like a robot. This drug is a serotonin inhibitor which helps block pain. But it also blocks emotion which I have sorely missed during the past 3 years. I'm working with my doctor to lower the dose and then go off it. Your footnote is so important that I think it probably should be emphasized. Don't go off brain altering drugs without the help of you doctor!

I think the important thing that you bring out here is that these drugs are exceptionally good at helping us but they all come with some side effect. I like the metaphor of ROI because we do have to weigh at times in our life whether we are getting what will benefit us most. Doctors know the cures, but they can't replace our own responsibility to manage our physical and emotional well being.

Re: We Are the Ten

mikefarmer — Sat, 28 Mar 2015 12:17:47 -0000

Thanks!

Re: We Are the Ten

mikefarmer — Thu, 26 Mar 2015 14:05:17 -0000

Phil, this document and the posts that went along with it has completely disappeared from the Internet. This is truly sad because the things that Fulling put together in "We are the Ten" are precious. Is there any chance that document of values could be reposted somewhere?

Re: Sweetter in Ubiquity

mikefarmer — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 11:41:08 -0000

Thanks for posting this Phil. One minor typo, his name is Mike GRACE. Keep up the fabulous work at Kynetx! :)

Re: Rexburg Tweetup Workshops!

mikefarmer — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 13:33:37 -0000

Great feedback! A couple things from your post:
1) a manual voting page is in the works so that you don't have to tweet your votes.
2) facebook ads sound awesome! Maybe Joseph and I could come down to semvironment and discuss this further with you sometime.
3) My biggest desire is to get many many discussions going on many many topics. I love coding and I know others there do as well but you are right, we need to allow for other topics to be discussed as well. That's really what's driving the workshop idea. There are probably other things we can do as well. I'll keep pondering it.
4) I love the idea of having people participate remotely. I'd like to find a way for that to happen two-way rather than one-way though. Any ideas?

Re: An Open (Institutional) Learning Network

mikefarmer — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 17:44:05 -0000

Jon, I have a lot of thoughts on this. Too many to put into a comment. I will say, however, that you are right in line with my thinking. The core of this is getting a simple framework together that will let people start building on it so that we can start seeing these ideas take off.

Re: The ETL Step

mikefarmer — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 11:23:10 -0000

My question to you is why not use Ruby? I personally am more comfortable with ruby than PHP so that's why I chose it.

Re: LMS Architecture Proposal, Part 3

mikefarmer — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 11:20:37 -0000

The OAF, as well as the the rest of the proposal, is an expression of ideas that I've had while working on our LMS. None of what you see here actually exists. It is my hope that by expressing the ideas here that it will spark discussion and inspire innovation in the field. I'm excited that it caught your attention. I'll take a look at OLAT and see how closely it is aligned with some of my ideas.

Re: New global browser statistics via statcounter

mikefarmer — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 12:47:19 -0000

this is dramatically different than what we see on campus servers. I wonder what the breakdown by country is.

Re: LMS Architecture Proposal, Part 2

mikefarmer — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 00:35:05 -0000

I'm hoping that the market will eventually create an open architecture. My proposal here is targeted to begin to take much of the talk and start to articulate it in such a way that we can start to get into some of the specifics in how we are going to solve this problem. The other two posts (coming tomorrow) will start to hammer down some of the architecture details but they don't get detailed enough to start answering the tough questions. That's the next layer of the onion :)

Re: David Rathbun & Social Media

mikefarmer — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 10:48:21 -0000

Great job taking notes. As one who wanted to attend but couldn't I greatly appreciate it. Interesting that a lot of the Rexburg tweetup crew (whom I affectionately call the RexburgGeeks) were there. We really need to get more people on twitter and find those in the area that are and get them participating with our blog and tweetups.

Thanks again Mike Grace!

Re: Official Tweetup #2

mikefarmer — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 10:03:11 -0000

Wow, great writeup. This is awesome. Thanks for doing this!

Re: Tool & Content Malleability

mikefarmer — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 12:23:05 -0000

This is a monumental undertaking to redefine learning technology. I applaud your study and articulation of the problem and the direction you set forth for creating the next generation. This is the right way to go and doing so will be inevitable. I'm very interested in seeing some prototypes and working examples of how this can be accomplished. Five years ago I would have thought Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) would have brought the desired modularity. Having read much about the failure of many SOA initiatives, I now question whether that is the right approach.

I believe that future initiatives to implement modularity (malleability as you call it) into the learning experience will involve integration of web based applications delivered through a common interface. In other words, utilizing existing integration standards such as REST compatible API's from highly specialized online services into a single framework that can provide a consistent user experience. An example would be to provide a single access-point for Google Docs and Facebook groups where documents could be shared to members of the groups in a very low friction interaction.

Do you know of any current initiatives to articulate a possible software architecture and identify existing technologies that could be implemented and tested under the guidelines you've specified?

Re: Real-Time Regular Expressions

mikefarmer — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 01:36:46 -0000

This is a great tool. It's very similar to a Mac OS X tool that I use called RegExhibit (see http://is.gd/hmbl). The major feature RegExhibit has that I don't see on Skinners app is the ability to have multiple line regex with comments. This is a big bonus for me when dealing with big nasty regex that you and I are both familiar with ;)

Re: More Macbook Sleep Problems?

mikefarmer — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 23:29:17 -0000

The first version of Leopard I used was 10.5.2 so I can't speak to the problem being part of the update, but I was noticing that my MBP was having issues waking up so I applied your fix and haven't had any problems since.

Most of the time I had problems it seemed to occur when I would close the lid and then think of one more thing I had to do so I would immediately open it back up again. That seemed to send it into space for up to a minute or just lock up completely. After reading your post, it's easy to understand why this was happening. Since applying the fix doesn't move things around, it makes things run much more smooth to come in and out of sleep.

Thanks!!