Archive for May, 2007
Trac, WebAdmin plugin and global configuration
As you may know I manage quite a few trac installations. A few days ago I upgrade my server from Ubuntu “Dapper Drake” 6.06 to Ubuntu “Feisty Fawn” 7.04. This also upgrade trac 0.9.x to 0.10.3.
I was happy, since trac 0.10.3 has many improvements over 0.9.x, but there was one thing I was not so [...]
Installing RMagick Ruby Gem on Mac OS X 10.4.9
When you want to manipulate images with Ruby (or your Rails application) you’ll probably want RMagick installed. This is no easy feat on Mac OS X.
The official guide suggests installing X11 and using darwinports to install everything. This guide shows you how to easily install RMagick on you Mac OS X system. In this case [...]
Slow connections with ProFTPD
My shiny new VPS, which is running Ubuntu Linux, uses ProFTPD for FTP access. Today I noticed that setting up the connection takes about 5 to 10 seconds. This is really annoying when editing files through FTP.
So, I investigated and found that by default ProFTPD tries to revolve the hostname of the client in order [...]
BAT - TER - Y
You all know the word: “Battery”. Like most words, it has several meanings. This site greatly explains the meaning of the word battery, and adds a little lyric-sugar to it!
Come on boys and girls! Sing along to BAT • TER • Y.
(Please digg the site or post a link to it. Thanks!)
MERGE request failed on ‘/path/to/file’
After upgrading my Subversion server to Ubuntu Feisty, I noticed that when committing I got the following error:
svn: MERGE request failed on ‘/svn/repository/trunk’
svn: MERGE of ‘/svn/repository/trunk’: 200 OK (http://svn.myserver.com)
Although the messages says that the commit failed, it has not. A simple ’svn update’ will merge the changes you made to the repository to your working [...]
FeedBurner acquired by Google!
It looks like Google is about to acquire FeedBurner. Just a note to all of you to let you know. If you have a blog or RSS enabled website, burn your feed now and get your AdSense account ready! Soon you’ll be able to put targeted ads in your RSS feed and add another source [...]
Rails Snippet: Write like Orwell with to_sentence
A few weeks ago I posted an article that explained how to create a comma separated list from a hash of objects. When I was browsing the Rails API documentation I came across a method named to_sentence.
What this little bugger does is create a human readable, comma separated list of items in an array or [...]
