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I 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

I’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
Status… Continue reading

There 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
mkdir blog… Continue reading

Last 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

Back 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

Summarizing 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

My wife got a glimpse of the blog yesterday. “So, how much to set up a blog for me?”, she asks.

Good question.

There a zillion ISPs out there, but I’ll go with… Continue reading