Well… Long time… But finally a new post! If You have drank Linux KoolAid, then You can run on problems when You get some CHM file. It is old format and I think it has place where it can live (like many other proprietary data formats): But still, You can get documentation in such format, …
Author Archives: Witold Rugowski
Thumbnails are missing when uploading new image
Just a quick note – if You are experiencing missing thumbnails in image upload in WordPress, then probably Your PHP installation misses php-gd module. It is module by default installed on FreeBSD, but on Debian based Linux You have to add it by hand (apt-get install php5-gd). I had to move my blogs to new, …
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Ruby for Startups
I’ve found this interesting – a bunch of info from Mike Subelsky (creator of OtherInbox) how to use Ruby and Rails in challenging startup environment (each startup’s environment is challenging :)) ) Ruby For Startups View more presentations from subelsky.
Email verification – regexp
Many times before when I was supposed to collect emails from users I was googling to find some regexp to verify email syntax. At least I was aware that regexp challenging email address syntax is a bullshit ;) I was working few years as Unix sysadmin mostly on mail servers, so I had some idea …
Extracting fixtures
I’m still using fixtures. Shame, I know. Why I do use them instead of Factory Girl or other solution like that? Well, fixtures can be much more closer to real data than mocks from Factory. How come, You ask? Fixtures are imaginary data exactly like mocks from other sources! My answer is: that depends how …