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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 [...]

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 [...]

It's not a full example with code downloads, but here's an example of late binding in C#, when we don't know whether a class being bound into a DataGrid is going to be of type Article, Vacancy, Image, or whatever. I've found this to be a good approach when customizing a DataGrid that we can [...]

The world of Flash Actionscript has seen a lot of changes in the last year. If this was any other year in Flash's ten-year history as an interactive animation app, I'd probably be referring to the release of Flash 8, talk about its features, and convey my excitements and fears about the new release.

However, [...]

Our new Trac install is working very well. Since it's simpler than Gforge was, people seem much more interested in using it (even, if they'll forgive my saying so, some members of the graphic design team).
We've run into a few minor problems, though. In situations where particularly long SVN commits have taken place, [...]