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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 [...]

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Future of Mobile

Andy and I went to the Future of Mobile conference at the BFI Imax on Wednesday. We missed the first half of the day, but we made up for it by furiously taking notes and photographing every presentation slide we could. This is what we remember:
Charles McCathieNevile from Opera pointed out “screens are [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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