Monthly Archives: February 2008

Grandma’s Marathon Training: Day 1

By John | Published: February 22, 2008
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 here, [...]
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Some Royner Fixes

By John | Published: February 13, 2008
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 HERE
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How to: Nginx, FCGI, PHP, MySQL, Ruby On Rails, Rewrite

By John | Published: February 12, 2008
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 [...]
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Debugging Backgroundrb

By John | Published: February 11, 2008
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 [...]
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Royner & Co.

By John | Published: February 10, 2008
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 [...]
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Moved Hosts

By John | Published: February 1, 2008
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, [...]
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