Like polishing up an old wooden rocking chair, over the past several evenings I’ve been migrating an old Rails application. I was able to get the 3.1beta Rails app (sweet updates) working locally without much trouble. But it’s the first Heroku app I’ve migrated from the 1.8.7 stack to 1.9.2 Badious Bamboo, and it’s not quite ready for prime time.
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Duostack vs Nodester Node.js Hosting, Day Zero
This morning I’ll take a peak at two competing node.js hosting providers. Both Duostack and Nodester were straightforward to install and configure, if only other configurations were so easy. My first impression was that Duostack gets the slight edge due to supporting coffee-script out of the box, but Nodester get’s the service award and mentioned that coffee-script support is coming soon.
@VictusFate Thanks for the feedback! Coffeescript apps should deploy if they are compiled to JS. We have a ticket to support CS natively
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Open Source PaaS Cloud Foundry
It’s possible the buzzword density broke my discerning application taste filter, but a roll your own platform as a service is definitely worth trying on for size. The dream is to have a a platform that can perform like WordPress.org, but instead of serving bloggers it’s an open source Heroku like stack. Ideally I could deploy this platform on any ubuntu host and begin serving apps immediately.
Under the Tent Mesh
I believe the cost of data is still too steep for wireless networks. Sure the price has been dropping per bit with faster 3G and 4G networks, but we’re still paying for bits at indefensible margins (SMS is the worst offender). Based on that belief I don’t have a wireless plan, and survive off of wifi networks for not only data but voice and messaging. While feasting on far too much sushi at Douzos just south of our Fairmont hotel I came across the following open network.
though shalt not advertise
Imagine an ad less browsing experience made possible by the presence of a mirror image Adworld. Let’s begin with an inspection of constraints.
One line installs, One button deploys
Without exaggeration single button deploys and one line installs have changed my dev life. Read on to find out why. I’ll note a few of the configuration management tools I use on OS X and why I chose them towards the end of the post.
Rescuing Ruby Exceptions in Sinatra
This morning granted me 25 minutes to debug an Oauth callback in AutoSub, my latest list subscription juggling tool. While an older spawn of Victus Media ImageBrowser does a fine job of doing the Oauth handshake in Rails, there were a couple of subtle differences in the implementation.
Mac/Unix Cyber Superhuman
Are you looking for a miracle cyber superhuman that can untangle a rats nest of cables, resurrect your critical drive data, scale your web systems from one to a billion, and bake you a mean loaf of rye before the crack of dawn?
