A few days ago I wrote about my experience with Rbenv, the Ruby environment manager (is that what they call it?). My overall experience was good, but I did encounter a couple of hiccups getting the “ruby-build” plugin to work. While installing the whole kit once again on this cute new Ubuntu laptop, I figured it out.

I can’t believe how utterly, totally, fully, and completely I overlooked this. I could add a few more adjectives to that list and it would still fail to capture the magnitude of sustained neglect it required on my part not to realize that this existed.

Have you guys seen this? Github can generate a “resume” based on your github.com account listing the projects you own and organizations you’re affiliated with. This is such a neat idea!

You can see mine for example: resume.github.com/?aaronbieber, just replace my username with yours to see your own Github resume.

I stumbled upon this thanks to Gina Trapani on Google Plus. Though it’s flattering for Github to refer to me as an “advanced” Github user, Gina is a “passionate” github user. I think I have a distance to go yet…

I’m sure that this is not news to many of you, but rbenv is awesome. Because I faced some challenges along the way while setting up this Octopress blog environment and have now gone through the motions on both my Mac laptop and Linux desktop, I am going to take a few minutes to share my findings.

If you have no interest in using Ruby, you can move along.

I have migrated the clunky, dusty old Wordpress blog into Octopress, the spiffy, mostly-Ruby-powered, static blog site generator. While the primary impetus for this migration was the promise of editing all of my blog posts directly in Vim, it’s also pretty cool to have the whole site built on SASS and sitting in a Git repository on my laptop.

If you want to know more about why this is awesome and you should do it, too, read on.