Just a quick post to thank Steve Cave from About.com for his positive review of DailySkater. If you’ve never read Steve’s blog then you should and bookmark it while you’re at it. Lots of great information for beginners and seasoned veterans. If you’d like to see DailySkater on Android or any other platform then please post a comment below.

If you’d like to download the DailySkater trick tip app for iPhone then you can do so here:

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dailyskater/id404713569?mt=8

If you’re into skateboarding and have an iPhone then my latest app is just for you! It’s called DailySkater and will cost you nothing, but will hopefully be invaluable when trying to perfect your street skills. DailySkater has a library of over 100 skateboard trick tips and new tricks are added daily. Each time a new trick is added a push notification will be delivered directly to your iPhone. It’s a great way to take a break from whatever you’re doing and watch a 1-2 minute vid of a trick you’d like to learn. You can download DailySkater by going to the following link:

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dailyskater/id404713569?mt=8

and you can see a few screens here:

Please download and tell all your skate buddies. Hope you enjoy!

I’m testing the WordPress iPhone app’s publishing capabilities. I’ve found that it’s a great way to manage blog comments as well. For example, I just purged a bunch of spam comments as seen in the attached photo. Testing photo upload capabilities as well. Anyone tried the WordPress app on the iPad yet?

This morning I was trying to install Gnuplot from source because I wanted generate some graphs for ApacheBench. I’m currently benchmarking one of our Rails applications using Nginx w/ Mongrels against Phusion Passenger (Nginx flavor). When “make”ing Gnuplot I received the following error:

Undefined symbols:
“_rl_ding”, referenced from:
_alert in mouse.o
“_rl_complete_with_tilde_expansion”, referenced from:
_main in plot.o
“_history_list”, referenced from:
_write_history_list in history.o
“_rl_reset_after_signal”, referenced from:
_main in plot.o
ld: symbol(s) not found
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[3]: *** [gnuplot] Error 1
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make: *** [all] Error 2

After reading a comment here I found out that the -–with-readline=builtin option needs to be include when configuring Gnuplot. So you should run the following before “make”ing:

./configure -–with-readline=builtin

That got me going and hopefully it will do the same for you!

If you’re new to Git you may be working on a branch and realize that you’ve fallen out of synch with the master. In the case of Subversion you can normally do “svn up” and be good to go. In the case git you’ll normally do a “git fetch” and then a “git status” shows the following:

Your branch is behind ‘origin/master’ by 12 commits, and can be fast-forwarded.

To sync your branch with the master you can issue the following command:

git merge master

and you should now have all the latest changes from master.