I haven’t been updating, but I actually have been busy with a variety of programming tasks. Here’s a list of my thoughts at the moment: I’ve been doing a considerable amount of work with web video lately. That means I’ve gotten intimate with the various players, encoding options, and media storage solutions. And here’s what [...]
Also tagged cloud computing, coding, gems, hosting, ippOnce again I worked a long time on something that ended up having a simple resolution. It goes to show you that after troubleshooting for a while you need to go back and re-evaluate ALL of your assumptions. I plowed on and wasted so much time. So that others can learn from my mistake, on [...]
Also tagged apache, capistrano, passengerI spent all day Friday trying to prep a company CentOS VPS for a rails app. My first job: get ruby installed. Being more used to Ubuntu flavors of Linux I had no previous experience with YUM, but a package manager is a package manager is a package manager. I went for the gusto: sudo yum [...]
Also tagged gems, rubyI got real sick while on vacation in the mountains (a combination of cold/flu and altitude sickness) and had some down-time to work on my rails app. My main goal is to get all of the user login/user invite functionality locked down before I start expanding the feature set of the app itself, as well [...]
Also tagged testingRecent frustrations have led me to flee back to Ruby/Rails, and so I updated everything the other day (gems, rails, etc.), bought myself a github account, and started to tinker with some web app ideas I’ve had floating around for awhile. In doing so, I revisited a lot of old plugins and gems I used [...]
Also tagged gems, github, plugins, ruby