Ruby Enterprise 1.8.6
For those few people out there that can't use 1.8.7 which REE has moved onto here's the last version of Ruby Enterprise 1.8.6
December 7th, 2009Images not displaying from a Virtualbox mounted Share
Seems the solution applies to shares mounted via samba as well. The problem started when I wanted to have a directory mirror one from my production server and make it accessible to both a Virtualbox VM and a VMWare based VM.
Read the rest of Images not displaying from a Virtualbox mounted Share February 9th, 2009 0 comments »From PHP 4.3.9 to PHP 5.1.6 with OpenX Any Gains?
Needed to upgrade to PHP 5.x for an app someone had written for us and that meant OpenX was along for the ride. It already supports 5.x but I was curious to see if there was any performance gains on the server.
Read the rest of From PHP 4.3.9 to PHP 5.1.6 with OpenX Any Gains? January 29th, 2009VERR_PDM_DRVINS_UNKNOWN_CFG_VALUES
Reinstalled VirtualBox when 2.1.2 came out that fixed an annoying display bug that had prevented the client from displaying the guest properly.
Read the rest of VERR_PDM_DRVINS_UNKNOWN_CFG_VALUES January 23rd, 2009 0 comments »Zune Error Code: C00D1318
I am not much of a music person, so I never did quite get into the iPod craze. Although when I saw a Zune 30gig on Woot for the right price I figured why not? It's been decent, as MS has spent time providing upgrades, but every so often you hit an error that leaves you scratching your head.
Read the rest of Zune Error Code: C00D1318 September 13th, 2008 0 comments »Passenger in Production Take 2
Well after a quick failure with Passenger on my larger production box I reported my problems and low and behold there had been some fixes committed that Friday that would have prevented my problems had I been following the development versions.
Read the rest of Passenger in Production Take 2 July 23rd, 2008 0 comments »Keep Internet Memes On The Internet
There's been either a growing trend, or an existing trend I'm finally catching onto, where people use internet-speak in real life conversations. Might as well play the sounds of nails on a chalkboard as far as I'm concerned. A sure sign that I'm getting old.
Read the rest of Keep Internet Memes On The Internet July 14th, 2008 0 comments »Rails Development Under Windows XP or OS X or any other OS
Just what is the best way to develop Rails applications? Well my answer is a question, what's your production environment?
Read the rest of Rails Development Under Windows XP or OS X or any other OS July 11th, 2008 0 comments »Passenger with Ruby Enterprise in Production Take 1
Well Passenger had been running on this VPS nicely so why not try it out on a larger site? My server could use a nice decrease in memory usage, simpler Apache config files, and better concurrency.
Read the rest of Passenger with Ruby Enterprise in Production Take 1 June 30th, 2008 0 comments »Passenger (mod_rails) with Mephisto
With what appears at first glance as a solution to the "complicated" problems of hosting Rails apps Passenger could make the Rails world an even happier place to live. Less administration and more coding.
Read the rest of Passenger (mod_rails) with Mephisto April 22nd, 2008 2 comments »OpenX (OpenAds) 2.4.x Performance
Well, if a server is going to turn on you suddenly like a good dog gone bad I guess having something of a clue as to why is better than none. Today we had our largest spike in traffic in several months and everything held up fine, except the OpenX server wigged out shooting load up to 190! Let's see what you can do if this happens to you.
Read the rest of OpenX (OpenAds) 2.4.x Performance March 10th, 2008OpenAds 0.3.30-alpha to 2.4.2 Upgrade
There's a nice clear upgrade path from 0.3.31-alpha-pr3 but not from 0.3.31-alpha. Thankfully OpenAds is a well written app and rolling up to 0.3.31-alpha-pr3 wasn't much of a problem.
EDIT : Totally not true any more with the 2.4.4 release.
Read the rest of OpenAds 0.3.30-alpha to 2.4.2 Upgrade February 21st, 2008 0 comments »CakePHP on Dreamhost Linux
Really not that difficult, but there are a couple of trip-up spots.
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