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Jay n’ Mike’s Rules of Acquisition
My programming partner and I have been working for quite some time on some large projects, and we have come up with a basic list of rules that apply to startup computer businesses, from software development to software sales. You have to pay – Nothing in life is free, someone is always paying for it, [...]
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Qt C++: Threaded Communication with Artema Hybrid on Linux
Communicating with an Artema Hybrid CC Payment device is actually deceptively simple. I’ve written an application what uses a webkit widget exclusively for the UI display, and so I hook into the Javascript to provide some extra functionality to the app, in this case, reading and writing to/from the Artema Hybrid device. The documentation that [...]
Tags: C++, C/C++, HowTo, QT, Tips and Tricks
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Rails will_paginate links to wrong page
Well, While setting up a website today I found a bit of retardation in will_paginate. Aside from poor and complicated documentation and an incredible amount of bloat for what amounts to a very simple kind of website component, I found that will_paginate was linking to /?page= on a page that showed in the url bar [...]
Tags: HowTo, jQuery, Ruby on Rails
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Rails 3 – PHP Style Global Variables, $_SESSION, $_GET, $_POST in the models, and everywhere.
PHP Globals in Rails 3 So, as part of my slow descent into hell for even showing this stuff, I thought I would make a quick and dirty post about getting PHP like globals into your models in Rails. I wrote a longer article about globals in the model in rails which you can check [...]
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Ubuntu, Find large files by size
Here’s a handy little command for finding files in a directory over a certain size. $ find * -type f -size +90000k -exec ls -lh {} \; | awk ‘{ print $9 “: ” $5 }’ Related Posts:No Related Posts
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Apache2/MySQL on Ubuntu Configuration
Once you’ve installed apache2 and mysql on your server, you might want to try these configuration changes to make it perform a bit better: In /etc/mysql/my.cnf key_buffer = 16K max_allowed_packet = 1M thread_stack = 64K table_cache = 4 sort_buffer = 64K net_buffer_length = 2K And in Apache2′s config, /etc/apache2/apache2.conf, find the section for MPM prefork [...]
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Never Again! Backing up your rails .sqlite3 dbs
Well, with mysql, it’s pretty hard to overwrite your dbs, but with sqlite, it’s real easy. I did this, luckily I only lost about a days worth of work, but nevertheless, I have instituted a new rule for sqlite3 dbs: Hourly backups. Here’s the script: #!/bin/sh D=`date +%H` cp -f /var/www/app/db/production.sqlite3 /var/www/fapp/db/production.sqlite3.bak.$D Related Posts:Rails will_paginate [...]
Tags: Backups, Rails, Ruby on Rails, Shell Scripting, Sqlite3
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Love Ruby, Hate Rails, but still use it — or Ruby vs PHP
Okay, that title was a bit extreme, I don’t really hate Rails. I don’t get why people feel the need to be so completely polarized about a framework, or a language. It’s either the best thing since sliced bread, or the worst, and nowhere in between. Still, most developers who aren’t Ruby purists, can tend [...]
Tags: PHP, RoR, Ruby, Ruby on R
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Rails 3 Migrations Cmdline Builder
This is a little helper for making migrations.
Tags: HowTo, RoR, Ruby on Rails
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Ruby on Rails Session in Models: Not So Evil Actually
I just finished reading this post from m.onkey.org on how to put your session into your models. First off, I love this guy, and his site, and most of what he says, but I’ve had it up to here with this nonsense. I also kind of felt a little dissed by the PHP comment. I [...]
Tags: OOP, RoR, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Singleton
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