Up until now I’ve been using a fairly standard capistrano deploy.rb. The problem is that as we speak I’m trying to deploy a patch from my Windows work machine and it’s not working. The ethics of fixing one of my project from home aside, this is a problem. When I try and deploy the following [...]
I’ve finally moved out of the little apartment I had in Darlinghurst. It’s one of those times when I wish that I’d had a car handy so that I could have loaded everything onto a trailer rather than having to pay a removal company. Not that I was desperate to move all the furniture myself.
Before [...]
(And I’m hilarious)
Seems that simple lessons don’t get learned. Don’t get get me wrong, its very hard to protect every aspect against hackers who try to pry they’re way into your site. Storing passwords in plain-text is just dumb though. Even if the passwords for your own site are hashed, the proliferation of storing third [...]
I’ve finally decided to release ActiveDocumentum. ActiveDocumentum is a Ruby Gem that I created to bring some of the goodness, learned by pulling apart ActiveRecord, to accessing Documentum. Its nowhere near as mature, but I has been doing the job pretty well so far for the scripts and sites I’ve been using it for. It [...]
Myth has it that ‘Kilroy was here’ was the mark of a shipbuilder before/during WWII, and that it was picked up by Servicemen who found it amusing that the mark was made in supposedly unreachable places. They then spread the mark elsewhere, as locations around the world were liberated. I love this concept, because I’m [...]
My first few searches turned up some fairly unpolished methods of accessing Google Maps from Ruby. I’m definitely using Ruby as a starting point in this challenge, its the language I’m most comfortable with. That’s not to say that I’m not going to do any other languages. I do want to do a Python/Django project [...]
Apparently the idea for my Google Maps API part of my challenge has already been done by foursquare. Dammit, that was a good idea too. They’ve taken it to the next level as well, making it possible to complete badges (much like Stackoverflow and/or Kongregate). It’s a bit limited, in that you can’t have it [...]
One of my favorite finds this year is Programmable Web, a site dedicated to APIs and Mashups that are the lifeblood of web 2.0. Having just watched the movie Julie & Julia, which I highly recommend, I think that its only appropriate that I set myself a similar challenge. Take the top 50 apis, and [...]
I’ve was banging my head against the wall all yesterday evening trying to work out why Axis2 was erroring out with ‘Transport out has not been set’. All my searching for similiar problems was returning the same mailing list entries, replicated all across the internet, none of them having anything useful.
For me at least (and [...]
Turns out Rack doesn’t read minds. I just spent the better part of the morning troubleshooting a stupid error, convinced there was something wrong with JRuby/Rack/Sinatra. As it turns out the error was caused by having a blank config.ru file, I was editing one that was in a different directory (and believing that it was [...]
I work as a Document Management Consultant. I do a little bit of development in my spare time, mostly using Ruby, though I’ve been known to use everything from Java to Python. I live in Darlinghurst, which is a stone’s throw from the Sydney CBD (very handy) and spitting distant to Kings Cross (not so [...]