Archive | April, 2006
Installing Ruby on Rails onto Debian Sarge with Apache 1.3
After quite a bit of resistance on my part I’m afraid that it’s time to get down with the kids, hence: Install ruby [code]apt-get install irb1.8 libreadline-ruby1.8 libruby libruby1.8 rdoc1.8 ruby ruby1.8 ruby1.8-dev[/code] Install gems [code] cd ~bealers/build/src wget http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/5207/rubygems-0.8.11.tgz cd .. tar zxf src/rubygems-0.8.11.tgz cd rubygems-0.8.11 ruby setup.rb[/code] Install Rails [code]gem install rails –include-dependencies[/code] Give rails MySQL support [code]gem install mysql[/code] Note I had MySQL installed already, compiled from [...]
Continue reading...Global search and replace using Vi
28. April 2006
to replace all instances of - say - 127.0.0.1 with 10.0.0.1 in a file then using vi you can do: [code]:%s/127\.0\.0\.1/10\.0\.0\.1/g[/code] if you mess it up then press u for undo. Of course if it’s an important file then back it up first.
Continue reading...ssh logins without a password
28. April 2006
Share ssh keys: client: [code]cd ssh-keygen -t rsa[/code] the copy ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub over to server server: [code]mkdir .ssh cat id_rsa.pub >> .ssh/authorized_keys[/code] Job done
Continue reading...MySQL Workbench
24. April 2006
I just downloaded MySQL workbench 1.06 beta. I stumbled across it after finding this message on the DBDesigner forum page: Dear DBDesigner4 users, Due to several attacks against the DBDesigner4 forum it has now been closed down. We simply cannot understand the sick motivation of people to attack Open Source projects. So please understand that we will not provide [...]
Continue reading...Enabling spell checking within FCKeditor
23. April 2006
CMS Made Simple uses the great GPL WYSIWYG editor FCKeditor and I noticed this morning that it has a spell checking facility. To get it to work, I: Installed aspell on my dev server: [code]apt-get install aspell Reading Package Lists… Done Building Dependency Tree… Done The following extra packages will be installed: aspell-bin aspell-en dictionaries-common libaspell15 Suggested packages: aspell-doc spellutils [...]
Continue reading...Adding arbitrary PHP to a CMS Made Simple website
22. April 2006
CMS made simple (CMSms) is great as it does what it says on the tin e.g. it’s a CMS and it’s easy to use and configure. Most importantly for me, it’s easy to skin and modify. It uses Smarty as a template engine and I have to admit that I was dubious when I saw this [...]
Continue reading...Firefox web developer toolbar writer wins prize
19. April 2006
Chris Pederick the guy behind the <accent type=’american’>awesome</accent> Firefox Extension, the Web Developer Toolbar, has won one of the grand prizes in the extend firefox competition. He blogged the win and has subsequently blogged some pictures of his Alienwa^H^H^H^H^HDell PC. Completely unrelated to the prize, here’s some pictures of a Firefox branded bus.
Continue reading...Clone a VMWare virtual machine
18. April 2006
Simple one, you have a windows virtual machine and you want to copy it: Copy the folder the VM is in (assuming you use a folder per virtual machine) and rename it to the new host name Click on the .vmx icon (you can rename this file first so it’s new-host-name.vmx) Select “Edit this virtual machine’s settings” Under Hardware [...]
Continue reading...debian start-up script tip
16. April 2006
If you’ve just installed something and want to make sure it starts on boot then the init.d script needs adding to the various run level folders as a symlink. It’s a bit of a drag and it can be sometimes forgotten. Never mind, Debian comes with a handy script: Lets assume that we have a script [...]
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- Please redesign me!
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- Multiple project Trac set-up
- Vim auto indenting
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30. April 2006
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