John Yerhot

Its official - I’m going to be in Grandma’s (Half) Marathon and today was day 1 for training.
I ran one mile.
Gotta start somewhere, right? Needless to say I haven’t went for a run in about 3 months, so I was very tired after only 1 mile. After I get done [...]

Just a few quick bug fixes, mostly involving signing up.

fixed problem with the data validation
fixed a redirect problem when you entered bad data, resulting in a 500 error.
tweaked CSS a bit for flash[:notice

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In a previous post I talked about how I just set up my new Slicehost account using Nginx to power this blog (Wordpress - PHP) and some Rails Apps. Here’s a mini how to on how I got the whole thing working, as its not quite as easy as it sounds.
First though - Why [...]

Backgroundrb is a great tool for getting cron like functionality in your Rails app, but it can be a pain if its not working correctly. I’m not going to go into how to get backgroundrb working, its rubyforge page has decent instructions for that, but what I will share are some tips on debugging [...]

Well, after a little bit of down time and some re-adjusting my slice at slicehost we’re back and I’ve gotten Royner up and running at royner.johnyerhot.com.
What is Royner?
Good question. Well, you sign up with either a Google Talk (Gtalk) or Jabber instant message screen name, give Royner a url for a RSS/ATOM feed [...]

Well I’ve finished consolodating my two hosting accounts, one at Godaddy (cheap Linux hosting) and my shared Rails hosting at OcsSolutions (which was very good for shared Rails host) to a 512 mb Ubuntu 7.10 ’slice’ at Slicehost.  Was gonna go straight Debian, but figured what the hell.  For any of you who don’t know, [...]