I decided recently that I wanted to be able to run Ruby on Rails applications from my webserver. For those who don’t know me, RPM database integrity is a huge issue for me (I do not just install from source on my server!). Since I had some time this weekend, I decided it was about time [...]

I’ve been meaning to submit my photos to PhotoFriday for a while, but my gallery hasn’t been diverse enough to fulfull the recent challenges… until this week. Camera: Canon EOS 40D Exposure: 0.2 sec (1/5) Aperture: f/5.6 Focal Length: 85 mm ISO Speed: 400 Exposure Bias: -1/3 EV Flash: Flash did not fire

First of all, I’ll spare you the suspense. I did NOT get offered a job at Google… but I did have a lot of fun! I was first contacted back in December by a Google talent recruiter. Mike had been in the middle of his Google interviews, so it was an exciting time. Was I interested? [...]

It only took 7 months, but I finally got around to getting a picture gallery working on my website. If you remember my old website, I created a gallery from scratch that could be embedded into any webpage. You would upload your pictures to a folder on your webserver, then in your website code, you [...]

Over the Christmas break, I decided to take advantage of Boxing Week prices, and the lack of PST in Alberta, and purchased a Canon 40D SLR camera. I spent the first few days reading through the manual, and familiarizing myself with it’s features, and now I am beginning to get a good understanding of the [...]

Now that we have Subversion installed on our server, we really need some way to have it always available. We could run subversion in daemon mode but we would have to write init.d scripts which can get rather complex (especially if you are writing one properly, and not just hacking one together). Instead, we will add [...]

After fighting with the corporate firewall (ssh tunnels were not successfully able to navigate to a SVN repo on a shared host) I decided I should set subversion up on my home server. Since I am a little paranoid about throwing caution to the wind with regard to server changes, I decided to set it [...]

The Chuck Norris meme is of my favorite memes. If you have been living under a rock, it’s time to get out and enjoy! I really like that the US political candidates are embracing the Internet medium (or at least trying), and even more so that they are using vehicles such as YouTube. Now we [...]

Last night, I met with a few people from around the GTA for the first ever RailsNightWaterloo. We met at Ceasars Martini on University in Waterloo. The food sucked; the people were much better. We recieved a quick demo of the power of rails (similar to the Creating a weblog in 15 minutes), and then [...]

It’s been a few weeks since I started using Ruby on Rails, and so far it has been pretty good. That isn’t to say I havent run into a few hickups. I am quite familiar with PHP, so I set out to try to do the same things in rails as I would in [...]