Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Baristas Coffee Inc - BCCI to open stores in NJ

I like technology, I like coffee and I enjoy trading stocks. I was recently in Seattle and we were talking about Starbuck and coffee when someone mentioned a little sexy version of the baristas. When I got back to Indy a friend also mention the stock BCCI. So I had to check it out. This stock has been all over the map. Its less than 1 dollar. Somewhere around .30 today. In the last 13 days its been anywhere from .11 to .84 cents with some interesting volume for a stock that small. So I have started to accumulate some of this stock. Then yesterday they announced they will open 5 more stores in NJ, with the first in the next 120 days. So in May, that's 10 locations in TX, a location in Tacoma and now 5 new stores will be in NJ. My hope, is people don't stop drinking coffee anytime soon.

Monday, May 23, 2011

Myslq2 on Ubuntu 10.04

Tried to get mysql2 adapter installed on Ubuntu 10.4 today. I just found out this existed. Its been a little while since I have coded some Rails. I'm working on 3.0.1. I also had an issue updating my gems, but I let that slide for today. I Thought that would be as easy as 'sudo gem install mysql2', but that didn't really work out.
I get an error:
ERROR: Could not find a valid gem 'myslq2' (>= 0) in any repository

I first installed libmysqlclient-dev:
sudo apt-get install libmysqlclient-dev

Then I realized I needed to change my Gemfile, which is totally new to me. I added this line and removed sqlite:

gem 'mysql2', '< 0.3'

Then I ran:
bundle install

That got it to start working.