Monthly Archives: November 2006

Enable Rails development mode on a Media Temple’s (gs) container

By Alastair | November 30, 2006

Note this is for emergencies only development will suck up tons of RAM, expose errors/system paths, amongst other undesirable effects.
stop the app
mtr stop [appname]
set development mode
mtr set_option [appname] environment=development
start the app again
mtr start [appname]
debug your app (and fix it, woop!)
stop the app, set productin mode, start the app again; done!

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WebORB in the Press

By Alastair | November 14, 2006

There’s a good introduction to using WebORB for Rails in Web Developer and Designer’s Journal. It gives a basic overview for the uninitiated while also highlighting some lesser know features such as retrieving Rails session objects and authentication (setCredentials), the latter being a fairly recent addition to WebORB.

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Flash & Firefox

By Alastair | November 13, 2006

Sephiroth have a couple of useful plug-ins for Firefox for debugging Flash. One is FlashTracer which will output any trace actions in a SWF. The second is Flash Switcher which let’s you switch between Flash Player versions.
Go get’em.

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Banana Republic II

By Alastair | November 7, 2006

As depressing as voting ‘irregularities’ are, don’t let it stop you from voting.
If you’re on the fence here are the congressmen who voted for and against Net Neutrality, a law that prevented broadband providers from treating some Internet sites differently from others (the ‘NOES’ are the bad guys). Here are the senators, as it was [...]

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Banana Republic

By Alastair | November 7, 2006

How hard is to build a voting machine that dosen’t crash as soon as you turn it on?
Voting Problems Crop Up on Election Day
I guess all the half-decent developers are doing web dev

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The Best CSS Editor Just Got Better

By Alastair | November 6, 2006

I’ve been using CSSEdit for the last couple of months and it’s sharply increased my productivity when working with style sheets. Today MacRabbit released version 2.0 (of course) and it is jaw-droppingly good, TextMate good.
There are five major new features but my favorite so far is ‘Overridding’ which as the name suggests give you the [...]

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