Give a try to Flock
Posted on August 22, 2006 - Filed Under Tech | Leave a Comment
I just installed Flock and I’m giving it a test drive. But this is not about Flock itself. It is about something fun and strange. When I’m trying to access https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/216 I got Unable to connect when using Firefox for this site returns normal page. Well, someone does not like Flock or it just some [...]
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Read More..>>Adding Rails application to /usr/local/etc/rc.d/
Posted on August 22, 2006 - Filed Under FreeBSD, Ruby | 2 Comments
I was adding recently Rails application to FreeBSD startup scripts, to have it running after power-on. I have chosen /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ as place to add such script. I’ve copied some existing script (I believe it was from Apache) and customized all required variables. But after reboot Rails application was not running. Starting script as a root [...]
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Read More..>>FreeBSD port monitoring revised
Posted on August 21, 2006 - Filed Under FreeBSD, Ruby | 1 Comment
Some time ago I wrote simple script to monitor installed ports on FreeBSD machine (original post http://nhw.pl/wp/2006/06/13/monitoring-freebsds-ports/). It works quite well and shows me what is happening on some machines which are manage not only by me. And leaves some trace after handy portupgrade -a command ;-)) But when many ports are upgraded at once [...]
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Read More..>>Catching general exceptions in Ruby
Posted on August 18, 2006 - Filed Under Ruby | 7 Comments
I was wondering how to catch exceptions of any kind in Ruby. Well You just use begin rescue pair, without specifying what kind of exceptions do You want to catch. This perfectly gets all exceptions. But when You want to use some information, like exception name written to user, You have to declare some variable. [...]
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Read More..>>WordPress blogtxt theme patch
Posted on August 17, 2006 - Filed Under Other, Tech | Leave a Comment
I’m reading a lot about UI design, and one of design rules to web navigation is “no link to current page” – for example http://www.alistapart.com/articles/whereami I’m pretty sure also somewhere on Jakob Nielsen’s useit it is also given, but I can not find right now. This mean no link on page should point back to [...]
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