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flashie.org – Ridiculously simple online flash cards

Moti­va­tion I recently took a semes­ter of Man­darin at the Uni­ver­sity of Min­nesota. For an Eng­lish speaker, learn­ing Man­darin is chal­leng­ing. Not only are you learn­ing new words and gram­mar, but you’re also learn­ing new char­ac­ters. I’ve used flash cards in the past to learn for­eign lan­guage vocab­u­lary, but they didn’t seem to fit in […]

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Ubuntu + Rails + Passenger + OCI8 = Sad

Load­Er­ror (Oracle/OCI libraries could not be loaded: libclntsh.so.11.1: can­not open shared object file: No such file or direc­tory — /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/i486-linux/oci8lib.so) Have you seen this error in your Rails appli­ca­tion? Do you hate it as much as I do? I’ve spent the past two days trou­bleshoot­ing this and I finally found a solu­tion. It’s ugly and […]

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