Yoga for the eye

Here's an ancient yoga exercise that you can use to stretch your eyes.

1 . Close your eyes, and relax your eyelids, forehead and face. Keep your neck and head still. Breathe easily and regularly.
2. Imagine you're facing a clock, with your nose at its centre. As you stretch your eyes all the way up, you can just barely see the number 12 at the top of this imaginary clock. (Remember, your eyes are closed.) Starting at 12, rotate your eyes clockwise in a circular motion, around the clock. Stretch your eyes as you rotate them, but don't strain or force the movements.
3. Repeat for 10 to 20 clockwise circles.
4. Change direction and make 10 to 20 circles in a counter-clockwise direction.

Most people carry at least some tension and rigidity in these muscles. You can tell this when:

* Your eyes unconsciously jump out of your control.
* During sections of the rotation, the movements feel stiffer, more tense or stuck.

Holding your breath is a sign of tension. Remember to breathe! Where in the movements did your muscles tense up? When did they jump out of control? What parts of the movements were not smooth? With practice, you'll be able to make all parts of the circular movement smooth and easy.

By itself, this eye stretch won't give you perfect vision, but it definitely has its place in a total system of vision improvement.

Devise Authentication Test deployed at Heruko

Last wednesday 07/07/2010 I managed to deploy my new sample Devise Tool in Rails 3.0 application :) and i'm quite happy successfully deployed it at Heroku | a Ruby Cloud Platform as a Service. The name of my app is http://deviseauthtest.heroku.com/.

Its basically a sample authentication with a lot of feature and minimum code experience behind because the GEM already set it all for me. This Gem composed already 11 modules that will able to use inside the Model called User in my case. It has 11 modules namely (Database Authenticatable, Token Authenticatable, Confirmable, Recoverable, Registerable, Rememberable, Trackable, Timeoutabl, Validatable, Lockable) and so far I don't have any question and problems when I tried to manage modifying the looks and feel of the niffty Generator authored by Ryan Bates from Railscasts :)

It's kindda pretty though as it's very simple to use. Go try it yourself and see the difference running this cool Gem compare to just creating a User Model authentications inside your system w/ not much security compared to this well modularized toolkit at gitHub called "Devise".

My next plan is to try another PDF gem file named PDFkit ... else I have to stick on Prawn of RfPDF.

see you next time ;) andre

For a record on installing Rails 2.x compare and later turning back to Rails3.0BETA

I'm install new DB in my machine PostgreSQL as I want to test compare with my previous on-plate DB Mysql. I was still covering the backup of my files and I notice a link that is quite important so I did this for a record the.
http://www.robbyonrails.com/articles/2008/01/22/installing-ruby-on-rails-and-postgresql-on-os-x-third-edition
I'll post if I got a bug and errors as I go along the way then.

How stupid I am deleting my Terminal App!

From this article http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/212116#921458 (Thanks to a friend Frank for helping me sorting out my problem on an Error installing gems for Rails 3.0.0.beta4 in MacOSx machine)

Following the steps makes it work in the specific directory but the root directory has some problems with it. So decided to follow and edit the bash_profile which I accidentally modify few lines of it that my Bash Terminal Commands wont' work anymore, it says ... "-Bash ___ command not found." (whoami, ls, cat, tail, etc.,.). How stupid I am moving the Terminal app in the Desktop and move it to Trash and make the Trash Empty just to let my machine work back to where it was supposed to be working. The problem now, while i'm trying to fix the command line now which is found under /usr/bin, It wont work now, so that's it the TERMINAL was removed from my machine :( ... "How stupid I am..." Its the most important thing "app" that I need to work on few web apps :( . Now i'm worried as to where to resolve this issue. The only solution I could think is to get the CD 10.6x in the office and reinstall it back here. So i'm stranded for the rest of the weekends and few hours before and after weekends :(. So that's it. I'll better play and watch movie this time. See you then tomorrow.

Working on CSS3 in tandem with HTML5 as my next project

Few of my checklist that needs to be read and at the same time work on new stuff are: (tutorialfeed for CSS2 vs CSS3, css3.info, diveintohtml5, rubyinside)

The TutorialFeed is differentiates CSS2 Between CSS3 (http://www.tutorialfeed.org/2009/02/difference-between-css2-and-css3.html) is basically additional knowledge for me on working with CSS2 vs CSS3, they they differ on few additional attributes at least I have few to work and test on. Also another site that I'm interested with is how the CSS3 working with different latest browsers

(http://www.css3.info/wp-content/uploads/2007/07/css3_support.htm), this will help me detect few incompatibilities when developing web applications that running on css3 and working the markup language. I also have few reviews on (http://diveintohtml5.org/) which is helpful when diving markup language like HTML5 ... i'll be working on Web Application sooner. And lastly I'm check on this site (http://www.rubyinside.com/nethttp-cheat-sheet-2940.html) might be testing out on .erb file sampling on Net::HTTP cheat sheet. I'm new to this so, this is quite exciting for me though. See you then :) ... my 1st blog post @ Blogger.com