Monthly Archives: July 2009

Setting environments with Rails: how Rake and Capistrano differ

Annoyingly, Capistrano and Rake do similar jobs, and have similar syntax, but have different ways of declaring the environment they should be working in. Her

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Setting up wordpress to update itself

Wordpress’s auto update feature is incredibly handy. However, not every webhost automatically has accounts setup to allow for this, and if click the promising looking auto-upgrade icon, you’ll often be face with this screen here: You get this screen when the folder containing wordpress belongs to the user, instead of the apache daemon; this is normally either [...]
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Fixing old gits

How to stop git whining too much when you commit to an old repo.

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Money is fertilizer, companies are soil

I spent a fair chunk of yesterday working on a redesign of the new ORG website, with Felix, Chris, Mike, Harry, and after we had finished for the talking with Felix about the recession and worthwhile work. We both have friends who work in the financial sector, we both get nerdily angry about bad design, [...]
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Looking for a green host – concluding the search

I think I can finally stop searching for a good, green virtual private hosting company in the UK.

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