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Google Interview

Posted on 18. Feb, 2008 by Ash Christopher.

First off, 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? Definitely! There [...]

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Running Subversion From xinetd

Posted on 29. 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 on 28. 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 on 05. 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 on 01. 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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