Tech Talk News

So most of you have heard of the Startup Weekend that took place out in Boulder, CO earlier this month. Well the project that they launched is called Vosnap, which is currently in private BETA.  I expect that that they will be in a public beta soon, in which I hope to be apart of. Recently, Andrew Hyde, Startup Weekend Founder, sent out an open invitation to cities to host a startup weekend.  Thus far there’s been 10 cities that have responded with 6 of them having set dates. The first one to come up will be the Toronto Startup Weekend, Sept. 14-16th.

I was approached on Thursday by my good friend Matt, who asked me to sign up for the DC Weekend in October. I had to of course, since anything with Matt is always promising and always a good networking opportunity. I am looking forward to heading down to the DC area for a chance to create the next big Web 2.0 app. I am also looking forward to get to meet the organizers of the weekend and founder of the startup weekend. Currently there is roughl 55 or so that are signed up. If you are in the DC area, please checkout the DC Startup blog for more details and to register.  One thing to note is that we will be developing the core of the application with Ruby on Rails. Now don’t let this discourage your from becoming a part.  There’s lots of other developers, PR, Legal, Business, etc. that is needed for this to work.

So I was listening to Net@Nite the other day and decided that I could post to 1 place and have it actually go out to various places.  I think what I might start doing is either posting here or through something and then have a lot of different places get updated.  Currently I have a Twitter, Blog, Jaiku, and Tumblr accounts.  So what I’d like is to have one place to work that will update these.  This place I’d like to have is something that would work with all of these places. I’m currently testing egorcast to see if this is something that will help me with some of these.  Hopefully it will work correctly! We’ll see though.

I know this is my second post today, however, I wanted to test some stuff because I’ve set up my Tumblr account to except my Blog posts so that I’m not having to double post.  Now the nice thing I like about Tumblr is that I can create real short posts about a video, picture, quote, IM, etc and it’s super simple! What I find a little harder with a blog is that I am always having to check comments, making the posts look nice and “professional,” which by the way, I don’t think these are going to continue looking professional, as this blog is really something about my technology experience.  That being said I think that what this blog will end up as is a lot of my frustrations, videos, tutorials, etc.

So I bought a new computer this week and of course it’s got Windows Vista on it. For those that I don’t talk to everyday, I use Vista at work, and have been since January.  I have to say that I really do not like this new operating system.  There are some features that I do like it, however, if you do not have at least 2GB of Ram in the computer Vista is SLOW!!!! Currently, I’m barely running anything, Firefox and AIM, and I’m using 75% of my memory! This is pathetic! I’m really seriously considering looking into purchasing an XP license and installing that on here.

Anyways, I haven’t really seen a lot of people that have really tried to install Ruby on Rails on Vista, so today I decided that I wanted to take a chance and see what happened.  I first tried to use InstantRails, however I was unsuccessful about it.  I then decided to just install Ruby/Rails, and MySQL all together on the machine.  This I had no trouble with.  I’m not sure what exactly was going on with InstantRails, but I might try to give it another try later.  I’ll give you some more info later when I get an application actually working correctly on here!