Monthly Archives: February 2008

LiteSpeed adds a Rails staging environment

By Alastair | February 4, 2008

Via Dark as Light, the easy way to deploy Rails adds a staging environment.
Here are the LiteSpeed update instructions:
1. Click ‘update’ in the LiteSpeed administration console
2. There is no step 2
3. see #2
Why more people don’t use LiteSpeed is beyond me. Hosting a Rails app takes only a couple more steps with no mongrel_clusters or [...]

Posted in LiteSpeed, Mongrel, Ruby on Rails | 1 Comment

Zazzle cancels my order

By Alastair | February 4, 2008

I thought I might be able to sneak this design through but no luck as it uses the Firefox logo. Too bad it would have made a pretty sweet shirt.

It’s derivative of the old USSR Coat of Arms for those of you born in the late eighties.

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Flex, Flash, and Ruby hourly billing rates

By Alastair | February 2, 2008

HotGigs has a feature where they collect and aggregate the hourly bill rates of the consultants on their site. Here are the average hourly bill rates for Flex, Flash, and Ruby, surprisingly they have sub-categories for Flash all the way down to Flash Remoting but there’s just one category for Ruby with no Rails sub-category.
For [...]

Posted in ActionScript, Flash, Flash Remoting, Flex, PHP, Ruby, Ruby on Rails | 2 Comments