Category Archives: Geeky

Lessons learned from 11 screencasts

By John | Published: November 13, 2009
I’ve now completed 11 screencasts for FOSSCasts.com, and I must say it has been a great learning experience.  I’d like to share the workflow that I’ve settled on. Getting Started First, the equipment: recorded on a Mac using Snapz Pro to record the desktop.  Lots of other Mac screencasters will recommend iShowU, but I already had a Snapz Pro [...]
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Smart Searching Using Anonymous Scopes

By John | Published: June 21, 2009
I really like how Lovetastic’s search works.  Instead of a plethora of select boxes, users can simply use expressions to create searches.  We did something similar with Tryst’s searching.  One text field and you enter stuff like age ranges (30-45), things like smoke-yes or smoke-no, cities, zipcodes, etc. To make this whole thing more Rails like, [...]
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rQuote – Ruby on Rails Stock Quote Plugin

By John | Published: August 29, 2008
I merged some stock quoting stuff I had into a Rails plugin today. If you’d like to be able to simply grab real time stock quotes in your Rails app, this will do the job. Pretty much any stock symbol will work and you can enter as many as you’d like, you’ll get [...]
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Uncrappifying your Qwest Modem (if it is a GT-701WG that is)

By John | Published: July 8, 2008
I have DSL service from Qwest.  It is ok.  Beats the competition. The one thing I HATE is the modem I got from them, an Actiontec GT-701WG. The problem?  It was darn near impossible to make it be JUST a modem, not act as a router/gateway, not act as a NAT, no frickin Actioncrap firewall, just [...]
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Mongrel + Nginx: Deploying to a subdirectory

By John | Published: May 27, 2008
Though using subdomains is all the rage right now, there are certianly instances where you may want to deploy your rails application to a subdirectory such as: http://www.johnyerhot.com/myrailsapp Of course Nginx makes it super easy to do so. If you need to get your webserver ready with Nginx, PHP running as a FCGI instance, and Rails [...]
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Got a new monitor

By John | Published: March 20, 2008
Yup, brand new 24 inch Samsung. I’m always amazed what an extra 4 inches will do for your screen real estate. I love it.
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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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Weekly Roundup

By John | Published: January 28, 2008
Heres the week in review: -Linux Mint home networking is now done and working beautifully. Had some trouble getting the onboard Via Chrome9 Video working correctly, but I followed the instructions here(compiling it from source) and everything was great. I wanted to use the OpenChrome driver instead of the VESA driver because the OpenChrome [...]
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Linux Mint Media Server – Day 1 – Samba/iTunes Sharing

By John | Published: January 23, 2008
First I apologize, I’m watching Rambo III as I write this (preparing for the new Rambo {!!!!!}coming out this Friday) so I may screw some of this up. This all started with a couple of great deals I saw on slickdeals.net. 1. Got 5 x 1024mb sticks of DDR2 667 Ram for $7 shipped after rebate. 2. [...]
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