Articles by Rob Pak

Rob Pak

Rob Pak

Managing iOS Configurations per Environment in Xcode 4

Update 4/2014 I recommend using .xcconfig files for managing your configurations. Take a look at this post. At Carbon Five we usually have 3 – 4 environments our iOS applications will run against: development, acceptance, staging and production. Often, the property values that are unique across environments are URLs to APIs that we are integrating

Rob Pak

Rob Pak

How to install rails on CentOS 5.4 x64

1. Download ruby source wget http://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.8/ruby-1.8.7.tar.gz tar -zxvf ruby-1.8.7.tar.gz 2. Install dependencies sudo yum install gcc sudo yum install gcc-c++ sudo yum install zlib-devel sudo yum install openssl-devel sudo yum install readline-devel sudo yum install sqlite3-devel 3. Build ruby from source cd ruby-1.8.7 ./configure –with-openssl-dir=/usr/lib64/openssl make sudo make install 4. Download rubygems source wget http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/69365/rubygems-1.3.6.tgz

Rob Pak

Rob Pak

Agile Modeling Techniques for Story Writing

At Carbon Five, all our projects begin with ‘customer facing’ meetings focused around determining scope and expectations. A core component of these early meetings involves one or more story writing sessions. The end goal of story writing sessions is to have most user stories in a project documented (i.e. in Pivotal Tracker) regardless of whether