January 2009
2 posts
Combining OpenID and OAuth for Login + Data... →
Interesting detail of the flow Plaxo has used to let people invited with an @gmail.com address log in directly from the email using their Google Account (OpenID). The sign in process also requests access to the user’s Google account info and Contacts (OAuth) which can be imported and save the user the work generally required to create an account on yet another social network.
I don’t...
Installing mySQL gem on OSX
I’ve been changing computers a lot lately and I always wind up googling the specifics of installing the mySQL gem… generally comes down to typing the path wrong, /usr/local/mysql/bin rather than /usr/local/mysql.
Anyway, this is the correct command:
$sudo gem install mysql -- --with-mysql-dir=/usr/local/mysql