Archive for the ‘IT-Related’ CategoryMultiple Rails Apps Under PassengerWednesday, December 30th, 2009My development server is on a home LAN behind a firewall, and I don’t want to make it a DNS sub-domain. I have directed my router to issue fixed IP addresses through DHCP, so I… Continue reading OpenSolaris Under VMwareThursday, December 17th, 2009OpenSolaris looks pretty cool, so I’m giving it a spin as a VMware Virtual Machine. The trick is to set up the new VM as a Solaris 10 system – that wasn’t obvious to me… Continue reading Rails and PHP under Ubuntu ApacheTuesday, December 15th, 2009I have Ubuntu 9.10 (aka Karmic Koala) running on my laptop. It’s rapidly becoming my portable development machine, so I set up the Rails environment right away. I have decided to add PHP to the… Continue reading | 2 Comments VMware Server 2.0.2Thursday, November 19th, 2009The latest VMware Server version is 2.0.2, released on October 27 of this year, so I thought I would give it a spin. The downloads are available as RPMs, so that was the obvious… Continue reading Integrating OpenID with AuthlogicThursday, September 24th, 2009I won’t take any credit here. If you want to do this, jump right over to the Ryan Bates Railscast Number 170. He totally nails it – just follow along and adjust for the… Continue reading HAML and Apache EncodingsWednesday, September 23rd, 2009I’m playing around a bit with the HAML gem. It broke my Apache / Passenger server immediately. The original error message looked something like: /!\ FAILSAFE /!\ 2009-05-01 10:05:18 -1000 Wordpress Under RailsFriday, September 11th, 2009There have been occasional discussions about integrating a Wordpress CMS into a Rails application. One approach is to simply do a Wordpress install under RAILS_ROOT/public/blog. That’s pretty straightforward: cd RAILS_ROOT/public A Word About WordpressFriday, September 11th, 2009Last week there was a fair amount of buzz about Wordpress security issues. Here’s an Information Week article and also a short blurb from IT World in case you’re not a Wordpress user… Continue reading Apache Through the FirewallThursday, August 27th, 2009Back in the old days (pre-2000), the various flavors of UNIX had very little security other than the “baked-in” stuff such as encrypted passwords, root vs normal users, the standard file permissions, etc. Later, things… Continue reading TweetDeck on Linux and KDEThursday, April 16th, 2009Summarizing all I learned in one place…. I use the KDE window manager on Linux mainly because it’s been the de facto standard for the semiconductor industry since the Dark Ages, and I don’t… Continue reading |