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Running Subversion From xinetd
Posted on29. Nov, 2007 by Ash Christopher.
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 [...]
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Setting Up Subversion On Fedora 8
Posted on28. Nov, 2007 by Ash Christopher.
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 [...]
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A Few Weeks With Rails
Posted on05. Nov, 2007 by Ash Christopher.
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 PHP. [...]
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What Is This Rails Thing?
Posted on01. Oct, 2007 by Ash Christopher.
A few weeks ago, I downloaded an eBook on Ruby on Rails and gave the first few chapters a read. It was decently interesting, and it sounded like something I would like to get into. I am not a fan of eBooks, so I decided I would spring for a physical copy.
The book covers Rails [...]
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SMARTHOST Authentication With Sendmail
Posted on18. May, 2007 by Ash Christopher.
Rogers, one of Canada’s biggest ISP’s has this nasty habit of making life difficult for it’s customers. First they throttle BitTorrent traffic, and now in an attempt to curb spam, they block all outbound connections from port 25.
While this may not seem like a huge deal to most users, what this means is that you [...]
