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Installing Phusion Passenger on Centos With a Custom Apache2
Posted by Dave Hrycyszyn 21st July 2008 in FLOSS, GNU / Linux, Ruby on Rails, TechnicalWe’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 [...]
Future of Mobile
Posted by jamie 16th November 2007 in Design, TechnicalAndy 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 [...]
Testing Single Table Inheritance Models in Ruby on Rails
Posted by Dave Hrycyszyn 24th May 2007 in Ruby on RailsI 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 [...]
Tag Clouds in Ruby on Rails using has_many_polymorphs
Posted by Dave Hrycyszyn 31st March 2007 in Ruby on Rails, TechnicalRecently 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 [...]
England All Stars “Next Match” World Cup Germany 2006 website widgets
Posted by Josef Dunne 9th June 2006 in TechnicalTo add this to your myspace profile or website, copy and paste the code below.
<embed allowScriptAccess=”never” src=”http://www.headlondonstorage.co.uk/widgets/eas/widgetmaradona.swf” type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” width=”180″ height=”240″></embed>
To add this to your myspace profile or website, copy and paste the code below.
<embed allowScriptAccess=”never” src=”http://www.headlondonstorage.co.uk/widgets/eas/widgetsven.swf” type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” width=”180″ height=”240″></embed>
To add this to your myspace profile or website, copy and paste the code below.
<embed allowScriptAccess=”never” src=”http://www.headlondonstorage.co.uk/widgets/eas/widgetsvenflag.swf” [...]
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