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Category Archives: hacks
Another seamless upgrade, and visitor comments.
I upgraded to WordPress 2.0.4 in thirty seconds, just a few minutes ago. After login in as administrator and deactivating my plugins, those thirty seconds included SSHing in to my server and running this: #making an in-server backup in folder … Continue reading
PJTrix.com’s Hack #1 – SSH tunneling for ultra-secure web app administration
At long last, here is the first PJTrix.com hack. It’s longer than most of my entries, so plan to read a while. Come back when you have the time if it interests you. Over the past few months, some friends … Continue reading
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It’s down to the wire now, less than 1 hour to go
Well, I got about 50% of my planned features done. I’ll just keep correcting the layout till ten minutes to midnight, check in the last changes, and them I’m gonna crash till about noon tomorrow. My dad’s Father’s Day party … Continue reading
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Less than eleven hours to go …
… and I need a nap. I’ll get an hour of shut eye, and have lunch when I get back up. It doesn’t look like I’ll get 70% of the functionality in by midnight. It may be more like 50%. … Continue reading
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Breakfast time!
My stomach started hurting about 10 minutes ago. It could be from the coffee I had a few hours ago. But I think it’s just gastric juices from 10-11 hours without a meal (and that’s a guess. I don’t remember … Continue reading
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It’s official … today is my own personal hell ;-)
My webmail app for Rails Day 2006 has the all-popular tagging capability (i.e. what GMail calls “labels”.) In the spirit of agile development, Rails has a plugin called acts_as_taggable, that lets developers add tagging to their applications without a whole … Continue reading
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Four hours in, twenty to go …
I just spent about two hours getting all my unit and functional tests to pass for basic authentication functionality. Not good. I should have nailed that down in under 40 minutes. I got little more than nineteen hours to go. … Continue reading
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Competing in Rails Day 2006
In just over three hours, I will be competing in Rails Day 2006. It’s a coding competition, where you are only allowed to use Ruby on Rails to create a full web app in 24 hours. I have a thermos … Continue reading
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Lucky Strike
This past Monday, I started a new exciting, but short chapter in my self-employment. A few hours after I had posted my last entry, I received an email from a good friend down here in PR, asking if I was … Continue reading
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