You could call it a blog

  • Class and Module Knitting
    4 October 2012

    While adding a new feature to an existing rails application I was going to alter some methods and add some new ones… I saw not too much wrong with that being new to rails … but it was pointed out that over time this sort of editting results in files consisting of large amount of unrelated code… the prefered solution is to use ‘include’ and ‘extend’

  • New VPS
    5 September 2012

    Getting a new VPS all started when I noticed my current provider had a cheaper deal available (that I was not on).

  • dotify and beyond .. the learning continues
    28 August 2012

    I have recently heard (via (Ruby5)[http://ruby5.envylabs.com/]) about a gem that helps you manage your dot-files (the hidden directories/files in the root of your home directory)

  • Network Manager permissions (nm-applet)
    26 August 2012

    One of the most popular desktop network managers is called (in the Debian repos) “network-manager” and a way to control this is to use “nw-applet”

  • vim is awesome
    10 August 2012

    Since I was a introduced to linux development I have used ‘vim’ and have never switched editors… you might think by now I would have very specialised vim config but I basically made do with the defaults. (I do a few tweaks but nothing massive)

  • But what about a Plack and TT replacement?
    7 August 2012

    On my VPS, I currently use Perl’s Plack and TemplateToolkit to serve up html pages. This means (for sites thats fit this requirement) I can take an HTML site (perhaps provided by a designer) and just serve it up.. any dynamic content can be added as a when required with no change to setup except the source HTML pages.

  • Bye perl, hello ruby
    6 August 2012

    Today I was thinking about changing my VPS to run on a pure ruby platform rather than the pure perl platform I currently have setup.

  • doing a dump... a nice big TCP one
    1 August 2012

    Today I had to figure out why 1 certain SOAP script worked and another did not, even thou they do look very simlar.

  • A tip for users of sudo
    1 August 2012

    I use sudo alot (like most debian based linux users), something that often catches me out is redirection.

  • HTTPS and SSL .. test it out
    1 August 2012

    To test if a machine can get to a port and get some data I often use ‘telnet’ or ‘nc’ but what if the thing you are connecting to uses SSL?