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Pragmatic Rails Deployments

August 30th, 2007 | No Comments | Posted in Review, Ruby on Rails, Ubuntu Linux

Rails IconThe pragmatic bookshelf has done it again – this time making sense of the one burdensome issue with the Rails platform: deployment.

While still in draft, “Deploying Rails Applications A Step-by-Step Guide” by Ezra Zygmuntowicz and Bruce Tate brings the whole process back to basics with great insight, tips and tutorials that ensure however you deploy, it is less painful.

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Correct Re-directs and Pretty URLs

August 28th, 2007 | No Comments | Posted in Technology, Ubuntu Linux

ubuntu logoIf you use WordPress as your blogging (or website) back-end, you may want to change it’s default URL structure so that things make more sense to readers.

The goal being that rather than:

http://someurl.com/?page_id=2
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Research Ready

August 24th, 2007 | No Comments | Posted in Apple, Review

journler iconI’m constantly surprised by the dedicated community of OS X shareware and freeware coders. Their dedication inexpensively fills in any application gaps on my Mac.

Take Journler by Philiip Dow, for instance. This smart little app could be seen as just another fancy text editor; but that would not do it justice.

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Using Apache 2.x as a Proxy to Other Physical Servers

August 23rd, 2007 | No Comments | Posted in Ruby on Rails, Technology, Ubuntu Linux

ubuntu logoIf you have multiple sites (domains or sub-domains), that you want to host on a separate physical web server(s), you can proxy requests from an apache server to other servers. This uses a similar Virtual Host configuration as when you are pointing many sites (domains or sub-domains) to different directories on a single server.

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Why the European iPhone Deal Rumors May Make Sense

August 23rd, 2007 | No Comments | Posted in Apple, Mobile

iPhoneAccording to the Financial Times and several other sources across the Internet, Apple has struck deals with several operators for the European iPhone launch.

The deal allegedly gives initial exclusivity to:

  • O2 in the UK
  • T-Mobile in Germany
  • Orange in France More »