January 2008
46 posts
December 2007
42 posts
ruby_inline permission denied when starting...
The cause is the project is trying to read /root/.ruby_inline/Inline_ImageScience_aa58.c, yet the user running the rails project is the one specified in the /config/mongrel_cluster.yml (usually some other user that is NOT root). When the project references anything to do with ImageScience, it will complain that it has insufficient rights to read the c library file, of course, since it’s in root’s...
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why ie sucks, reason #3242599
yesterday we ran into a huge problem with a live site not playing any flash content. of course, it only happened in ie6. and to make it even more strange, it was working fine locally on our test servers. after following different trails (swfobject problem? caching issues? xml header incorrect? flash?), i finally nailed down that the problem was due to a server configuration (much thanks to a...
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Adobe - Player Licensing : File Format... →
kaourantin.net: SWF & FLV file format... →
CSS Star Rating Redux » Blog » Komodo Media →
New Nginx.conf with optimizations →
MediaCatalyst » Flash IE6 problem with loading xml →
NginxGettingStarted - Nginx Wiki →
random crap of the day part three (php mail)
how to use the often overlooked fourth parameter while using mail function in php:bool mail ( string $to , string $subject , string $message [, string $additional_headers [, string $additional_parameters ]] ) The additional_parameters parameter can be used to pass an additional parameter to the program configured to use when sending mail using the...
random crap of the day part two (wordpress)
this might be common sense, but wordpress will not display published posts whose dates are set in the future. how did this come up? client complains that her posts aren’t showing up anymore. strange, because they show up in the backend and they work if you directly view them from there. i suspect that it’s a problem with wordpress’s have_posts() or the_post() method, but no luck...
random crap of the day part one (command line)
why you should test your command before using * and -R ex 1: gzip -r -v * will zip every file recursively into its own archive. ex 2: rm -f -R *.gz will recursively remove all files with the extension gz i realize #1 after i see all my files have been zipped. i realize #2 after i start rm -R’ing the gz’s without realizing the original copies are zipped. crap. thank god for...
Fluid - Free Site Specific Browser for Mac OS X... →
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ruby block variables
“If a local variable (including a block parameter) is first assigned in a block, it is local to the block. If instead a variable of the same name is already established at the time the block executes, the block will inherit that variable” - Programming Ruby, p. 333
when using flvtool2 to trim flv's...
use the -a switch to collapse space between cut regions (i.e. resets duration and keyframes from 0)
FLVTool2 broken →
Securing SSH — Fedora Solved →
Graham Glass, etc.: Rails Sessions/Remember Me →
Basic User Authentication in Rails | aidanf.net →
Changing Password and Forgot Password methods -... →
Setting up extension development environment - MDC →
Building Firefox Extensions →
roachfiend.com » How to create Firefox extensions →
dict.org: Resources →
definr - incredibly fast dictionary →
google analytics: tracking ajax requests →
DEMO: Javascript SHA1 →
Ruby on Rails Command Line Access →
InstallingMacPorts - MacPorts - Trac →
Ruby Video Processing →
Rail Spikes: RVideo 0.9 is now available →
media temple: install ffmpeg on media temple dv or... →
escapegoat.org: Video Conversion in Ruby on Rails →
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LinuxCommand.org: Learn the Linux command line.... →