Monthly Archives: June 2011

Why Robert Scoble is Wrong (And a Little Right) About Apps

Posted on June 23, 2011 by Michael Koby

Robert Scoble is no stranger to opinions. He has several of them, and he posts them on Twitter daily. Sometimes his opinions are valid, other times they can come across as blatant fanboy. That’s okay though, that’s what the internet is for. But he has recently taken the stance that the success of the platform is based solely on the number of native applications it has available. Continue reading →

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Quick Thoughts on WWDC 2011 Announcements

Posted on June 6, 2011 by Michael Koby

Earlier today Apple kicked off it’s annual developer conference with it’s usual keynote address from Apple’s commander in chief Steve Jobs.  Lots of announcements this time around as they talked OSX, iOS, and their new cloud venture known as iCloud. … Continue reading →

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Completely Removing RVM

Posted on June 3, 2011 by Michael Koby

Today I had to change an single user installation of Ruby Version Manager (RVM), to a system wide installation. But after removing the .rvm folder and .rvmrc file from the user directory, running the RVM installation script would still install to the user directory instead of the system wide /usr/local/rvm directory. What I found is that RVM will embed itself deeply in your system and there are a few more things you have to do, below are the steps to completely remove RVM from your computer. Continue reading →

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