May 2010
8 posts
iPad and ST
Just finished my first meeting centered around my iPad. Sitting in the cafe typing up this post on the same device.
Firstly, typing. Really easy. I have this down flat on the table in landscape and I’m just using it exactly like my keyboard.
Imockups for iPad
Fucking annoying to get the hang of at first and lacking in a heap of features. Once you get over the learning curve it becomes...
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Roadmap For squaretalent
Just noting down the things that I’m aiming for with squaretalent, heroku and all our clients works
Leave Paperclipped for a really lightweight ‘images’ extension, to be used with galleries and shop_products
Fix up the cache not clearing on Heroku
Introduce expanding text areas in a plug in
Tidy up shop_products and add more tests, update existing sites
Build the...
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Radiant+Heroku+Paperclip³
Here at Square Talent we’ve moved to running all our Radiant sites off Heroku (we’re still using slicehost to run watchy), that’s how Dad did it, that’s how America does it, and it’s worked out pretty well so far.
I’d like to share my experience with this over the past 3+ months, and hopefully help others looking to go down this path.
Heroku Goes to Sleep
...
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Heroku Database Support
Heroku has just introduced even better database support (through taps)
For those of us living and breathing Radiant* and trying to maintain applications across development and production environments life has been “totally fun and full of good times, yay”.
* Any cms that blurs storing content and design within the database
It comes down to, “I made changes here but I...
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Monitor Heroku Apps (or just heartbeat)
A damn sight easier than a perl script and self maintain list of domains.
# MIT <2010> <Square Talent>
require 'rubygems'
require 'open-uri'
require 'pp'
require 'heroku'
heroku = Heroku::Client.new 'user@email.com', 'password'
heroku.list.each do |domain,account|
domain = open "http://#{domain}.heroku.com"
unless domain.status[0] == "200"
raise "domain is frackin' down"
...
Rails 3 Rack Passenger - Old News
I missed this one
set_env/SetEnv so you won’t need a wrapper for your ruby executable.
Found it necessary on apache when moving to 3 (1.8.7)
SetEnv GEM_HOME /opt/gems
After it couldn’t find rack.
Facebook Gone
Just a heads up to everyone who wonders, I deleted my Facebook.
You can always contact me on dk.hat.dirkkelly.dawt.com
No longer interested in my photos being all over the place and connections doesn’t make me smile.
April 2010
1 post
Getting Fit
Probably need to back this up with some figures, but here goes.
~ 176cm
~ 90kg
- stomach
- arms
- tits edit
+ face
+ legs
+ beard edit
Running
Mario Visic
nike Equalon+ 4
nike+
ipod nano
6km around Bibra Lake
Run 1 7m/km
Run 2 6m/km
Goal < 4m30s/km
Monday and Thursday
Gym
Kaylene and Mike
Fremantle Warehouse
All Female Classes
Excellent...
March 2010
5 posts
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Radiant GO .com
I’ve been doing a bit of work for our squares lately, with the most requested feature being a Radiant installation that’s ready to go.
With that I’m introducing www.radiantgo.com which is an off the shelf edge installation, packed full of delicious extensions and some initial data.
All you need to do is … well go to the site and see.
sidenote: the webpage was deployed...
“If I’d listened to customers. I’d have given them a faster horse.”
– Henry Ford
Dirk
Is an academic, yo
“< Did Microsoft do anything Good?
> Provided Apple with competition.”
– Chat window with a Talent
Apart from Minesweeper, Minesweeper is good
February 2010
5 posts
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“Are you a jack of all trades, or a master of one?
DoWhatYouDo.net Square...”
“I started playing Basketball today.
Ow.”
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“I’m looking for designers who are interested in making money, not writing code....”
SSL and Tomcat 6
original and far too long article I followed
Standard Certificate Stuff
Go to your apache ssl folder
# cd /etc/apache2/ssl
Just like you would do with apache or any other server
Generete a server key
# openssl genrsa -des3 -out server.key 1024
this will create → /etc/apache2/ssl/server.key
Generate a CSR
# openssl req -new -key server.key -out server.csr
this will create →...
“I’m trying to be happy that I have finally gotten SSL working on...”