Solving Postgres problems in Mountain Lion
Problem #1: psql (9.1.5, server 9.2.2) WARNING: psql version 9.2, server version 9.2. Some psql features might not work. Type “help” for help. Solution:
Capistrano Deploy sequence
Capistrano is really helpful in deploying applications. Its just basically one command line to execute. Writing the recipes themselves are also easy, but what’s not explicitly written is the sequence of which the deploy process goes through. I’ve been fixing my cap scripts and having a hard time with rails 3 and thin. Hence, I
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WordPress 2.8.4 release, a joke?
I have been maintaining several WordPress blogs (all currently running 2.8.3 as of the time of writing). I logged in earlier today, and found that there was a new release. Of course, I wanted to have them all updated at the soonest possible time. By practice, I download the zipped file to apply them manually
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Making GTD work for you using Hiveminder, Google Calendar, iCal, iSync and your mobile
I’m a fairly new member of Hiveminder. I remember, I saw it first from a Lifehacker article discussing about the best GTD tool. I wanted something unobstrusive and could be used in a variety of ways. I found Hiveminder and I gave it a spin. I immediately liked its simple layout which is quite refreshing
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Playing it safe with Google’s web tools
Just for the heck of ‘doing-it-right’, I enrolled all my sites into Google’s Analytics and subjected them to Google Webmaster’s tools. I’d check them from time to time to set some updates and fix reported errors. Google Webmaster’s tools is quite a handy measure for beginners who don’t know where to start with their site
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Lovin’ my Pidgin
Here’s what I learned just now.. Chatting on IRC using my Pidgin. Horray! I wanted to find my old pastie url and I seem to have lost it. I was running back again on how to get my pastie, and learned that I needed to get on the #rubyonrails channel. All you have to do
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Dominance is Power
Right now, I am playing with four (4) browsers as my renderers. To work with UI stuffs is really a kicker, and sometimes you will never know how it renders in another browser unless you test it. I work with Opera, Epiphany, Firefox, and Seamonkey. I still favor the popular Firefox (though its really hogging
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