Archive for the ‘System Management’ Category
Sunday, October 4th, 2009
I recently left the ruby deployment team forĀ large managed rails-based hosting provider. We used capistrano for our deployment needs. Once we had successfully configured an application and its dependencies we would hand over a very robust capistrano recipe to the end user and it turns out that almost all ...
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Wednesday, April 29th, 2009
I work for <insert large managed hosting provider specializing in rails deployment here> and I had the good fortune of getting to play with nginx + passenger before its recent release. This gave me some time to think about how completely it integrates into my deployment stack many weeks before ...
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Saturday, April 11th, 2009
Every once-in-awhile I'll want to be able to view hidden files in the finder. You can google this problem and you'll find a lot of people with the same answer. Pop up your terminal and enterĀ "defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles True". The issue is that every time I need this ...
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