FreeBSD rc scripts
January 6th, 2009
I’ve always wanted a concise practical guide to rc scripting in FreeBSD, well, here it is
Read the rest of this entryHow to monitor a logged in professional
November 24th, 2008
Sometimes you will need to get a professional to log into your system to help you out. You should watch what they do, and this is the easiest way I know.
Read the rest of this entryTMail Moves to GIT
November 23rd, 2008
Social networking here we come!
Read the rest of this entryFunny...
November 21st, 2008
Some people think that rails is getting bloated… but through the hard efforts of core committers, the fluff and fat is getting sliced and trimmed down like a Döner kebab spit at a turkish festival…
Read the rest of this entryHow to reset a sequence with PostgreSQL
November 3rd, 2008
I would think that
1 2 |
ALTER SEQUENCE sequence_name
RESTART WITH (SELECT max(id) FROM table_name); |
would work, but it doesn’t. Use:
SELECT SETVAL('sequence_name', (SELECT MAX(id) FROM table_name) + 1); |
instead and you will be a lot more happier.
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Mikel
OpenBSD RAID and Temp Sensors on HP Proliant DL 360 and 380 Series
November 2nd, 2008
I have a bunch of HP DL 360 and DL 380 servers that I run OpenBSD on as gateways. This is how to monitor their RAID drive status and temperature status…
Read the rest of this entryTerminator - Timeout without Mercy
September 11th, 2008
If you have been following my posts on Ruby-Talk and Ruby on Rails and even RSpec mailing list (and who wouldn’t?! I mean, aside from my mother) then you would have noticed I have been banging my head against a brick wall on the subject of System calls not being handled by the Timeout libraries in Ruby…
Read the rest of this entryWhen you are coding, you should try to separate out the things that change from the things that stay the same. This isn’t my idea, but it is worth tip’n here as I just saw a really good, simple example of this…
Read the rest of this entryFortune...
July 8th, 2008
I got his when I logged into one of my OpenBSD boxes today. Interestingly true…
Read the rest of this entryExamples of Behaviour Spec'n
June 30th, 2008
In my previous post (Spec Behaviour not Implementation) I went on a froth roll about why you should treat controller actions as black boxes. Here I give an all to common example of why this is good and how you can write specs that won’t break at the most trivial change.
Read the rest of this entryTip #27 - Spec a Behaviour, Not an Implementation
June 28th, 2008
This has been said a lot, and doesn’t really need repeating by someone like me, but, as this is a tips page, I should put it here.
Read the rest of this entryTip #26 - Start Small
June 27th, 2008
If you are getting frustrated with RSpec, then you have probably skipped a gradient. Start smaller!
Read the rest of this entryTip #25 - Logging is your friend...
June 26th, 2008
Sometimes when you need someone to just look over your code and figure out what the heck is going on, you can turn to your best coding friend, this friend sits away in the log directory carefully collecting data waiting for your beck and call…
Read the rest of this entryTip #24 - Being clever in specs is for dummies
June 25th, 2008
This tip is coming to you from a frustrated developer having to read someone else’s specs….
Read the rest of this entryTip #23 - Know your fundamentals
June 21st, 2008
You would expect any professional to know their stuff, for a Ruby on Rails beginner, this is no less important.
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Latest comments
- Adam Milligan
I’d like to see a method in the TMail::Address interface that provides validation without depending on exception handling.
- Mikel
Hey Brian,
Thanks for the suggestion, kibitz looks perfect!
Mikel
- Brian Fox
I highly recommend using “kibitz” instead. You can find this program as part of the TCL “expect” package.
Kibitz...
- Tudor Constantin
This was a great help. Small, concise, exactly what I needed. Thx alot
- Gianni
How to use it in error_messages_for ???
- wictor
I have moved TMail onto GIT too.
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