To clear the DNS cache on Mac OS X 10.5 use:
dscacheutil -flushdnscache
on 10.4 and earlier try:
lookupd -flushdnscache
Needed this just now as I was setting up the new sub-domain for Goruco 2009 Confreaks site.

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All of the LA Ruby Conf 2009 Videos are now available online.
It has taken a while to actually get to processing them, but it didn’t take long once I was able to focus on it and get them done (this past weekend).
Feel free to post any comments about this video below.

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I should be in Orlando Florida right now, helping record acts_as_conference.
ATTi is a Platinum sponsor for this conference and one of my Sr. Engineers, Lori Holden will be presenting on ActiveORM, part of the merb + rails => Rails 3 project.
Instead I spent the day doing an internal web-cast of our (ATTi) all hands meeting.  [...]

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So I’m working along this morning toping and tailing videos from rubyconf2008.  I am also working on a new app for the confreaks web-site, that will allow more dynamic access to all of our recorded presentations.  My post production work on our videos uses AVISynth which runs on Windows, so I’m stuck in Windows XP [...]

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Jamming to get my stuff packed and organized so I can jump on a plan to Orlando in the morning.
Hard to believe this is my 3rd RubyConf.
Good things are in the wind…
Hopefully more soon from the east coast, videos will be recorded, processed and posted to Confreaks as quickly as we can.

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Airline alphabet soup.  Translates to Los Angeles to Detroit to Amsterdam to Oslo.
Headed overseas to record the second annual Smidig conference.
I wanted to stick a photo of LAX in here, but it turns out the USB cable I use to transfer photos got stuck in a bag that I put in my checked-in suitcase… So [...]

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What a day… after a long deployment yesterday, we had a few issues that demanded correcting today and called for an emergency release for YPC.  It’s done things are good.
Been home about 90 minutes, in that time I helped my friends over at Rareview deploy Build 2.0 of their project management application Projecturf.com.  This is [...]

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Just shipped all of the Confreaks, LLC gear that I had in LA off to SLC so that Carl can get it prepped and shipped to Oslo, Norway. For the second year in a row we are headed to Oslo to record Smidig, an Agile Software Development conference. The conference uses a unique [...]

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I spent the last two day’s in Austin, Texas at the Lone Star Ruby Conference.  It was a really great event, was able to meet “Matz” again, and have a short conversation about the future of ruby.  The humbleness of this man never ceases to amaze me.
YELLOWPAGES.COM and PeepCode sponsored the video recording of the [...]

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Well the initial prep work on the website rubyhoedown2008.confreaks.com is done.
Currently sitting in the lobby of the Hilton Garden Inn waiting for transportation to the venue at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, then we begin setup.
It’s raining like mad here, that wasn’t even in my thought pattern as a possibility…  My business partner got [...]

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