Cody Littlewood - /.codelitt
Rants, raves, & ramblings about technology, innovation, R&D, business, software & building things for the web
Creating Ubuntu LiveUSB on a Mac Problem & Solution!
The Ubuntu site has excellent documentation, but I kept running into an error when it came time to mount the image onto the USB so that I could have a LiveUSB ready to go. This slimy error read, “The disk you inserted was not readable by this computer.” It would...
Life: Put Into Perspective
Whether you’re working at a startup, attending university, or working for a massive corporation we all find ourselves being buried by stress and huge workloads. It is unfortunately part of being a professional, however, I’ve always thought it shouldn’t drown out the more important things in life. I wrote last...
Updated Ruby and Rails and still can not parse yaml with Psych? Here's my fix:
Today while updating the en.yml file for my rails app, I hit a snag and continually kept getting told that the yaml could not be parsed by the new parsing engine Psych. I was already updated to Rails 3.2 and Ruby 1.9.3 so this problem was supposedly fixed when you...
My Fix for OSX Lion Crashing on mid-2011 Macbook Pros and Older
So I finally broke down and installed OSX Lion on my late 2010 Macbook Pro after they released a couple bug fixes a few weeks ago. I know it was rather late in the game, but I kept hearing about people having a few problems with apps crashing and the...
WE, the people, stopped SOPA/PIPA -- Let's remember that
It’s the weekend after the largest activism I’ve ever seen from my generation in all of my 23 years, and one thing has been weighing on my mind for the past couple days… In short, yes tech companies had a huge hand in gaining opposition support against SOPA/PIPA, but isn’t...