Posted by Andrew
Wed, 28 Feb 2007 17:52:00 GMT
Internet History:
Robert Scoble interviews Ben Segal and Jean-Francois Groff, both of whom were directly involved with Tim Berners-Lee at CERN, where it all began. Among other things, find out what the very first website was…
Posted in Tech Talk | Tags history, internet, worldwideweb, www | no comments
Posted by Andrew
Thu, 15 Feb 2007 21:56:00 GMT
Classic reflective folk rock from my youth:
For awhile during my adolescence, I divided my musical listening roughly between Bach and the MBs.
Posted in 127.0.0.1 | Tags music, reflections, youth | 2 comments
Posted by Andrew
Tue, 30 Jan 2007 21:25:00 GMT
They all look pretty wowed.
Posted in Tech Talk | Tags microsoft, oses, vista, windows | no comments
Posted by Andrew
Tue, 25 Jul 2006 23:31:00 GMT
AVLUX has attempted a few times to upgrade Ruby from 1.8.2 to 1.8.4, but each time has found that 1.8.4 broke Instiki
But now with the advent of Mongrel, which only runs under Ruby 1.8.4, along with compelling discussions like this, the issue with Instiki has moved from the back burner to the front burner.
With a little careful googling, we found the answer
here. As it turns out, it is actually an incompatiblity between Ruby 1.8.4 and Rails 0.13.1, which Instiki requires. One line of code in active_support/clean_logger.rb solves the problem:
## Fix for Instiki on Ruby 1.8.4 per http://dev.instiki.org/ticket/277
## remove_const "Format"
remove_const "Format" if const_defined? "Format"
AVLUX has completed this change and upgraded to Ruby 1.8.4 on all servers. Stay tuned for more on Mongrel…
Posted in Ruby on Rails, System Admin | Tags instiki, mongrel, ruby, rubyonrails | no comments
Posted by Andrew
Wed, 28 Jun 2006 18:33:00 GMT
No kidding.
There is now a TextMate bundle which enables you to blog directly from every Macuser’s favorite editor, TextMate. The bundle supports Textile and Markdown formatting, and works with Wordpress and Typo, among others. Allan has posted a nice little video to give you a quick start in using it.
If you’ve never fetched a TextMate bundle, here’s how.
Posted in Tech Talk, Mac OS X | Tags blogs, macosx, textmate, typo | 1 comment
Posted by Andrew
Wed, 21 Jun 2006 17:35:00 GMT
The other evening while engaged in discussion during our daily family worship time, our dear 15 year-old daughter Galena was digressing into one tangential topic after another. Finally we patiently pointed out that while her thoughts were very interesting, we did need to try to stop going down so many rabbit trails. Without missing a beat, she innocently replied, “Hey! I saw a rabbit today…”
Posted in 127.0.0.1 | Tags family, humor | 1 comment
Posted by Andrew
Thu, 15 Jun 2006 23:55:00 GMT
Rails committer Jamis Buck recently explained in this post why it is important not to use static FastCGI processes on shared webservers. AVLUX took Jamis’ helpful guidance and used it as a starting point to enable all its Rails hosting customers to manage their own FastCGI processes
At the end of this post Jamis writes:
“Note, however, that a reboot of the machine hosting your account will require you to run the spawn scripts for your applications again… I’m sure there’s a handy solution for that floating around somewhere, but I don’t know it offhand.”
At AVLUX this is how we facilitate our Rails developers managing their own dispatch.fcgi processes, and ensuring that they all run at startup:
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Posted in Ruby on Rails, System Admin, AVLUX | Tags avlux, fastcgi, howto, lighttpd, sysadmin | no comments | no trackbacks
