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After installing RVM, Ruby 1.9.1 and setting up a rails 3 Project, I wanted to setup compass.  

Following some advice from http://blog.firsthand.ca/2010/03/getting-rails-30-running-with-stack-on.html I went ahead and added gem "compass", "0.10.0.pre9" to my Gemfile, ran bundle install, did the usual compass --rails . and encountered an unexpected error:

/Library/Ruby/Site/1.8/rubygems.rb:827:in `report_activate_error': Could not find RubyGem chriseppstein-compass (>= 0) (Gem::LoadError)

Here's a simple way to manage authentication for SVN repos on OS X Server. 

More complex groupings could be setup on a per-repo basis as well.

Interesting new declarative, cloud-based web app platform: <angular/>.  Super simple and easy to get up and running.  Because all the magic happens in JavaScript, you can run your app bits locally (during development) or on someone else's server with zero config.  Looks very useful for on-the-fly data persistence, on client sites in particular.

To avoid charset issues when pulling from a MySQL database using AMFPHP:

 $gateway->setCharsetHandler("mbstring","UTF-8","UTF-8"); 

In an attempt to save you hours of painful debugging and Adobe-hating: if you're wanting to use the excellent AS3 bulk-loader lib to load assets from S3, follow these steps.  Especially step 2.

 var context:LoaderContext = new LoaderContext(true, ApplicationDomain.currentDomain); 
 var loader:BulkLoader = new BulkLoader("loadmystuffplskthxbye");
 loader.add( someS3Url, { context: context  } ); // WIN