Another tag cloud script for Ruby on Rails
Or any other Ruby program really. I know there are attempts already out there but none that really suited my purposes. I needed a simple way of creating that tag-cloud-look for many situations. I...
View ArticleShuffling an Array in Ruby
[UPDATE] Someone called NoKarma and perraultd have posted even nicer versions on the Code Snippets site, thanks! class Array def shuffle sort_by { rand } end def shuffle! self.replace shuffle end end...
View ArticleTwammer, sending stuff from Twitter to Yammer
I use Twitter. I don’t really post much, but I do like to dip in and hear what my friends are doing. Yammer is like a private Twitter for companies. We have just had a network set up for the BBC, which...
View ArticleSetting the timezone on CentOS
I forget this pretty much all the time, even though it’s a fairly simple operation. There are loads of timezone data files stored in: /usr/share/zoneinfo So for my CentOS install, to set my machine to...
View ArticleInstalling MySQL gem on CentOS
Old news, but you’d be surprised how many times the same: Could not create Makefile due to some reason, probably lack of necessary libraries and/or headers. ... error brings everything to a halt. Well...
View ArticleInstalling Python’s Twisted on CentOS5 x86_64
I had to do a bit of searching to find the correct way to install Twisted on a 64 bit CentOS 5 machine, like the one I have via virtual hosting with SliceHost. But once I had the answers it was very...
View ArticleInstalling daemontools on CentOS5 x86_64
[UPDATE] It turns out you need to apply the patch below on any recent Linux distribution, not just 64 bit architectures, if that helps anyone. More head scratching, web searching, friend asking, and...
View ArticleInstalling Nokogiri on CentOS5
Nokogiri is an HTML, XML, SAX, and Reader parser with XPath and CSS selector support. It claims to be a drop in replacement for Hpricot, and it claims to be faster. I think the latter has been...
View ArticleFixing the trailing slash in Nginx
The solution as usual is super simple. The problem I was having was that when you didn’t put a trailing slash on a url, it would not handle it and throw a 404. I saw lots of fixes with complex re-write...
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