Posted by kev
Fri, 11 Aug 2006 20:16:00 GMT
Today I finished moving my blog hosting from Planet Argon to my shiny new Rails Machine and upgraded to Typo 4. If you see problems in the feed or display, please do tell me about it. (Comments are on.)
Planet Argon was great for blog hosting, but shared hosting for Rails applications is a pain. Rails Machine gives me what I need to get several applications running stable and lets me be in control. At the same time the ease of use is amazing. I’ve been deploying Rails applications for almost a year and a half now and this is hands down the most simple and effective system I’ve worked with. Period. The support has been stellar as well. If you’re looking to get out of the shared hosting space I can easily give Rails Machine my endorsement.
Update: It’s easy to say that a group has great service, but in this case I’m compelled to give an example or two. After a few weeks of service at RM, Brad pinged me on Freenode to ask how things were workin out. When the recent excitement happened with Rails releases I got emails telling me about it and urging me to update. Earlier today I was struggling with getting irssi installed on my Rails Machine because the CentOS RPM didn’t like (what I thought was) glibc and the configure script complained too. I just found this in my email:
The problem was GLib not glibc. Ha!
Here’s your fix:
yum install ncurses-devel glib-devel
:bradley
It’s hard not to rave about this.
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Posted by kev
Sat, 20 May 2006 00:04:00 GMT
Today I installed Parallels, a virtual machine with which you can run a guest operating system inside OS X. Now WinXP is on my Mac Mini for the first time and I feel a bit dirty. Inside my wonderously pristine unix operating system sits a window with a grassy field and a blue sky and it just feels wrong.
Besides the fact that I have to deal with Windows again, Parallels runs magnificently. It’s been fast, all of my hardware works fine and it was a snap to get running. If you have to be able to test out your sites on IE, I think this is going to be the way to go.
My only complication was getting networking to work. My Mini sits on a wireless network using DHCP. If you’re using your wifi, in the VM config you need to make sure that under networking your wireless connection is selected instead of your wired. Additionally, I had to set my address statically because DHCP wouldn’t work.
At the end of the month trial, I expect I’ll throw down the $40 to not have to install XP on a partition on my Mac or get a PC.
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Posted by kev
Wed, 17 Aug 2005 10:59:00 GMT
Today I helped the girlfriend sign up for a Flickr account and found that all new accounts must use a yahoo id. Thats fine, yahoo bought Flickr, we all knew the yahoo id would become part of the service. Unfortunately, a truly excellent 3rd party flickr uploader for osx hasn’t been updated to use the yahoo system yet, so I went on search for an alternate way to upload.
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