June 2008
6 posts
Working on Palmtree v1.0.0
Having seen a few people using palmtree for their deployment I’ve decided to do a bit more work on it and polish it up a bit. I’ve begun what will become v1.0.0 in a new branch which restructures the layout of the recipes. The general intention is that palmtree will be used by direct inclusion of various groups of recipes as are required by the user. Categories of recipes such as...
Jun 24th
Make Resourceful-ized form_for
One of the problems I’ve had recently is nested form partials in my Rails applications. I’ve got a controller which is always nested under another, it just logically makes sense that way. The problem I was having was that the rails form_for helper wanted to generate an un-nested url which the form would post to. Now I also use make_resourceful with my controllers. This is important...
Jun 20th
Updating the git repos in current dir
I’ve been using more and more git based TextMate bundles of late and updating them can be a bit of a pain. Mainly because you have to remember which ones are git ones, not too bad you can check for a .git directory in the bundles. So I finally go round to slapping together a small script to do this for me. I give you ~/bin/update-git-repos #!/bin/sh find . -name ".git" -depth 2 -type d...
Jun 12th
Its the little things
I’ve been forced to start using Thunderbird for my Office email as there is some bizarre incompatibility with SmarterMail and Mail.app. The short of this is I’ve had to start using an app I never wanted to. I like Mail.app, and its the silly little quirks of Thunderbird which really piss me off. Deleting an email I have my most recent emails at the top, its a fairly regular...
Jun 5th
Corrs Light
Just seen an advert for Corrs Light, apparently its brewed to be light. Given what I know about Corrs Light I can only conclude that Light equates to piss water in the US. Its probably not dissimilar to piß wasser as advertised in GTA:IV.
Jun 4th
FreeBSD 7.0 Installation with 8GB of RAM
I was installing a server for a client earlier today which had four 2GB RAM sticks in totalling 8GB of RAM. Bizarrely when trying to boot it, either via PXE or CD, irrespective of ACPI being disabled it would hang at /stand/sysinstall running as init on vty0 when ACPI was enabled and at Trying to mount root ufs:/dev/md0 with ACPI disabled. The latter case was worse as it would require an...
Jun 4th