Aaron Van Bokhoven / aaronvb

I am a Software Developer and a Portrait Film Photographer.
  • I love coding with Ruby and Ruby on Rails, and I love shooting with film.
  • I currently live in Honolulu, Hawaii, but frequent Chicago and California.
  • I believe that programming is a form of art, like painting and photography, where you can express your ideas and logic and see it transform into something real.
Aaron Van Bokhoven
photo: kipkeston
Email me at bokhoven@gmail.com. View my Photography Portfolio. Follow me on Twitter and on Tumblr.
Sep 05, 2009
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A Fresh Snow Leopard

I've become so normalized to formatting and wiping my OS clean every year/update during my Windows days that I decided to do the same with Snow Leopard. I also decided it would be a great time to upgrade the harddrive in my laptop to the WD 320gb 7200rpm.

After finishing that I followed the guides over at Hivelogic to get everything setup and running again. One thing to note was installing a ruby 1.8.6 since Snow Leopard by default installs 1.8.7 and my production server is running on Ruby Enterprise(1.8.6).

Compiling Ruby, RubyGems, and Rails on Snow Leopard
Compiling MySQL on Snow Leopard
Compiling Git on Snow Leopard

© Aaron Van Bokhoven