Category: General

Setting up Ruby on Rails to work with Apache and FastCGI

Up until today, I had only been running Ruby on Rails apps inside the built-in WEBrick web server, which is really slow. Today, I set up my Rails apps to work with Apache. If you just run them as CGIs inside Apache, this is also...

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Del.icio.us Direc.tor

Impressive. Most impressive. A very rich and innovative UI for accessing your del.icio.us bookmarks. Even the way it works is very clever. It's a bookmarklet which allows it to do things that remote JavaScript could never do....

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Dialing extensions on the Treo 650

Jeff Boulter describes how to speed dial #'s with extension #'s, useful among other things for phone conference services that require a passcode. via treoAddicts...

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Camp Yahoo

This is the first year that we're going to the company picnic at Blackberry Farms in Cupertino. We've arrived at DeAnza College, where we're supposed to take a shuttle to the picnic, but the line is really long and we've been...

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Weird Mac OS X problems

I've noticed two annoying things today that I didn't notice before so I think that the system got corrupted or I must've changed some weird preference somewhere that I didn't mean to: If I Command-Tab repeatedly, maybe 1 out of...

GeneralMac

iPhoto 5.0.4

From http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/iphoto504update.html iPhoto 5.0.4 addresses an issue with browsing photos that have been auto-rotated by a camera....

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New Yahoo! 360 Features

Yahoo! introduced several new features in Yahoo! 360° that enable consumers to bring together more of their personal content from around the Web and further customize their Yahoo! 360° pages. The new Yahoo! 360° features –...