Buddy Brewer

One year later!

buddy — Thu, 22 May 2008 12:40:50 +0000

Hmm, let’s see:

Well, we got married. Here’s the proof.
Then we went to Hawaii. Specifically the Big Island and Maui.
We’re coming to the end of our second year in Boston and planning to stay for a while.
I’m still working at Gomez. Things are going well.

See what happens when you don’t update your blog?

buddy — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 02:36:55 +0000

In the last 8 months, I have done the following:

Survived my first New England winter
Gotten engaged
Turned 30
Visited Paris and Prague
Planned a wedding in Vegas (ok, I helped)
Planned a honeymoon in Hawaii

Now you’re all caught up.

New blog - brainspotting.org

buddy — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 06:36:44 +0000

I’m starting a new blog about multiple sclerosis: brainspotting.org.Â I decided to do this for a few reasons.Â First, it has occurred to me on a few occasions that the countless hours I spend in my RSS reader tracking MS news and research should be summarized somewhere on the internet in case someone else finds it useful.Â Second, I’m a whore for money and every penny from adsense counts.Â Third, the domain name was just way too clever to pass up.
Since the world of MS research is much more fast-paced and interesting than my boring life, I expect it to get a lot more post volume than this site.

Moving to Boston

buddy — Fri, 19 May 2006 05:08:06 +0000

Jenny was offered a job at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute and I’ll be relocating to join the bulk of the Gomez crew in the Lexington, MA office. We plan to ultimately return to North Carolina, but we’re taking an opportunity to live and work in a major metro area for a while. I’ll miss the barbecue, stress-free parking, and my friends and family of 29 years, but I’m looking forward to plenty of great seafood, mild summers, and being close to an Ikea.

We plan to be there in time for Jenny’s first day at the new job on June 19.

Update 6/4/06: We signed a lease for this place. Note that this isn’t my flickr account, so don’t bother commenting there if you want me to see it.

Statically compiled subversion on a shared host

buddy — Tue, 02 May 2006 00:09:10 +0000

Ever log into a shell account as a non-root user and find it lacking a subversion client? I ran into this recently while setting up capistrano on my current hosting provider. I found the config options I wanted scattered across a few different web pages, so for posterity here are the steps I followed to get a statically compiled subversion client on my path:

fetch the latest subversion tarball from http://subversion.tigris.org
./configure --enable-all-static --with-ssl --with-zlib
make
cp subversion/clients/cmdline/svn ~/bin/svn (mkdir ~/bin if needed)
add ~/bin to your $PATH

You can tune the options to ./configure as neccessary, but my goals were to get an svn binary that would work against a subversion repository fronted by Apache, accessed via HTTPS, with support for compression.

Back online!

buddy — Wed, 26 Apr 2006 05:28:26 +0000

According to Google Analytics, the three or four visitors who stumble onto this URL each day will be glad to know that there is a web site here again.Â A few things worth noting:

I’ve “moved up” from the Gentoo linux box running off my home office’s cable modem to an actual hosting provider.
I have intentionally not imported any of my old posts. Old ramblings dating back to 2001 are still hosted on my LiveJournal account. The slate is clean, for now.
Starting in January I was running buddybrewer.com on the Ruby on Rails blog platform Typo, but now it’s running on Wordpress. Nothing against Typo or Ruby on Rails (both of which I love), I just wanted to play with some new (to me) blog software.

And now, back to your regularly scheduled Firefox tab.