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We’re currently running Apache2 on an old (and very stable) version of CentOS. It’s so ancient it didn’t come with Apache 2, so we’ve got it installed from source. Today we’re making the big move to running our Rails apps on Phusion Passenger (a.k.a mod_rails), but we ran into some problems with the [...]

I had a small problem today when trying to do unit testing of single-table inheritance models in Rails, all my tests initially failed and I wasn’t quite sure why. It’s a pretty simple fix but isn’t documented too well anywhere, so here’s the skinny.
My model structure was pretty simple, I had a Content class [...]

Recently I was faced with a somewhat strange problem - I wanted to tag the same model with two different kinds of tags. Each Event needed to have both a regular Tag for categorization, and a PlaceTag to indicate its location.
I was using the acts_as_taggable gem to do the categorization tag. When I [...]

Had a photo sent to me by a friend today, it’s an excerpt from the fantastic Engrish.com. Of course, it would be in rather poor taste to pick on people who can’t speak English too good, so in the interest of balance I present a blog dedicated to the stupidity of un-Chinese people who get [...]

We ran into a major problem last night when deploying http://www.englandallstars.com

The swf in question contained a form allowing users to type in email addresses. The trouble was that anyone with a British keymapping, using the Firefox browser, got a US English keymapping on text entry. This meant that users wanting to type email@domain.com ended [...]