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Entries from February 2006

HOWTO: “Fix” Secure LDAP in PHP

February 18th, 2006 · 6 Comments

Wherein we slay openssl, php, and ldap dragons.

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Tags: HOWTO · LDAP

A Call to Standardize

February 13th, 2006 · No Comments

Wherein RSS icons become standardized.

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Tags: Podcast · Weblogs

The Passing of “New”

February 13th, 2006 · No Comments

This morning the portal was finally stripped of it’s New monicker. It also got a fresh new banner. I eagerly await the Chico News & Review article about how the new banner just isn’t the old banner and that the portal just isn’t what it used to be.

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Tags: Portal

All Along The Switchtower

February 11th, 2006 · No Comments

Yes, yes…a horrible pun. Sue me. I caught a few good Switchtower links that needed to be filed here for all time.

Ode to Switchtower which has a few handy tips, including the update_current task which I wish I had know about this past week.
Jamis Buck on multiple deployment stages

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Tags: Ruby on Rails

Hurts So Good

February 8th, 2006 · No Comments

Okay, so everyone (and by “everyone” I mean “the 2.5 people who read this site”) now knows that were digging Rails, despite some minor pains. Today had some particularly brutal points while we hammered out some nice features for our second Rails app. We did battle with MVC, trying to corrupt it’s design […]

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Tags: Ruby on Rails

Exploring Rails

February 5th, 2006 · No Comments

Yes, it’s not exactly a secret that Scott and I have been working on some small projects in Rails. The funny thing, to me at least, is that all the hard stuff isn’t getting used to a new language (Ruby). The hardest bits are installing and using new tool chains. It reminded […]

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Tags: Ruby on Rails

Just Sayin’

February 2nd, 2006 · No Comments

waldorf:~/Projects/equipment pberry$ rake stats
(in /Users/pberry/Projects/equipment)
——————————————-+———-+————-+————-+——-+———-+
| Name | Lines | LOC | Classes | Methods | M/C | LOC/M |
——————————————-+———-+————-+————-+——-+———-+
| Helpers | […]

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Tags: Ruby on Rails