Rotating Mongrel Logs
I am working on a Rails application using Apache and Mongrel on a Linux (Fedora Core) box. I want to be able to rotate the Rails logs to prevent them from taking up too much disk space. I found a...
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Agile Development Reading List
This was my first Agile / Scrum book purchase and remains the cornerstone of my Agile library. It's an easy read and a superb starting point for people getting started with Scrum. Ken Schwaber uses...
View ArticleKeyboard Not Working in KDE
Today I ran into an issue where my keyboard stopped working in KDE (Fedora Core 10, KDE 4.1). I just updated some rpm’s which included the xorg ati drivers and thought that might have been the problem....
View ArticlePainless Cleanup of Ruby Gems With Similar Names
I have been riding the bleeding edge of Merb and Datamapper for about seven or eight months. Whenever the source was updated at Github , I would pull in the changes, rebuild, then reinstall the gems....
View ArticlePainlessly Remove All Ruby Gems
I noticed a lot of people searching for a way to delete all installed ruby gems and finding my Painless Cleanup of Ruby Gems With Similar Names page. I added this page for those of you who want to...
View ArticleGeekstuff Blog Migrated from Mephisto to Zinnia
As of Friday, May 6, 2011, the Geekystuff dot Net blog was migrated from Mephisto (a CMS built on Ruby on Rails) to Zinnia (a blog built on the Django framework). I decided to migrate for three...
View ArticleParameter Order in PHP's Built-In Functions
There does seem to be a "method to the madness" in the parameter order of PHP's built-in functions. For array functions the order is (needle, haystack).For string functions, the order is (haystack,...
View ArticleRuby vs. PHP (Intro)
One of the key differences in the languages (Ruby vs. PHP) is the level of “object-orientation,” and (obviously) syntax. Ruby was designed from the start (~1993) to be an object-oriented (OO) language...
View ArticleDropbox Does Not Sync (Solved for Linux)
I uploaded files from my home (Linux) computer to Dropbox but could not access those files from my (Linux) laptop. I was using the same distro (Fedora Core) for both computers with the same versions of...
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