Archive for April, 2009
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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Tuesday, April 14th, 2009
I have worked with, networked together, programmed, repaired and played on computers for the better part of the last two decades. While this by no means makes me an old wizard, it does mean that I should have something to say about why I might prefer one platform over another. ...
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Sunday, April 12th, 2009
If you are working with OSX or *nix flavored systems and you are not already automating mundane tasks with bash or some other scripting language than you must enjoy repetition. I migrated over to OS X a few years ago and although I had been integrating Linux and Apple Operating ...
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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 enter "defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles True". The issue is that every time I need this ...
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