http://dynaonrails.com After Java, C++ and PHP I found Ruby, then it found Rails... Mon, 05 Nov 2007 19:46:12 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This is certainly fun. And styled And strong SELECT * FROM users To be or not to be, whether it'd be nobler http://dynaonrails.com/2007/so-lost/tags/ I recently started seriously trying to use Ubuntu Linux on my main computer. It's been a fun experience so far, however there have been some glitches. For example, while getting the proprietory codecs to work right wasn't that hard, there was a definite static when playing most mp3 files. To ... http://dynaonrails.com/2007/ubuntu/ubuntu-mp3-playback-static/ Skipping one version, since I got kinda lazy, NginX 0.5.23 is out with some fixes worth an upgrade. The full changelog: - Feature: the ngx_http_ssl_module supports Server Name Indication TLS extension. - Feature: the "fastcgi_catch_stderr" directive. - Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred in master process if two virtual servers should bind() to ... http://dynaonrails.com/2007/nginx/nginx-0523/ Some more updates to NginX got released just today: - Bugfix: if server has more than about ten locations, then regex locations may be choosen not in that order as they were specified. - Bugfix: a worker process may got caught in an endless loop on 64-bit platform, if the 33-rd or ... http://dynaonrails.com/2007/nginx/nginx-0521/ WordPress has just released their new version. There are some interesting changes with Atom feeds, widgets, some import features and of course bug fixes and speed optimizations. From a personal standpoint I'm only really interested in the latter of the list, but seeing as how upgrades are a complete breeze! ... http://dynaonrails.com/2007/wordpress/wordpress-22/ NginX has come out with a new version, 0.5.20. There were enough changes over the last few versions to definitely warrant an upgrade, which took an overly complicated minute /sarcasm. It probably would have taken less time if I could not make typo's XD I can't really argue with this, nginx, ... http://dynaonrails.com/2007/nginx/nginx-0520/ Yep, I went there. - New/change theme. - Upgrade web server to the, once again, new NginX 0.5.19. - Figure out clean URL's, no more reading examples, just going to emulate .htaccess WP generates 100%. - Celebrate how more then a month down the line I still love my slice. That's all, for now. http://dynaonrails.com/2007/so-lost/to-do-lists-on-a-blog/ Rebuilding one of my server machines that also acts as a server where I work today, I jumped over to the newly released Ubuntu 7.04 on the virtue that I didn't have a DVD drive around and the task of switching CD's for also the newly released CentOS 5 seemed ... http://dynaonrails.com/2007/ubuntu/ubuntu-openssh-server/ Even though I'm still running release 0.5.16, there haven't really been any changes that would significantly influence me to rush the upgrade, it is nice to see that release 0.5.18 is out. For completeness sake here's the changelog: Feature: the ngx_http_sub_filter_module. Feature: the "$upstream_http_..." variables. Feature: now the $upstream_status and $upstream_response_time variables keep ... http://dynaonrails.com/2007/nginx/nginx-0518-released/ After a hiatus caused partially by my lack of love for the Grid-Server, *tisk tisk, glare*, it's back, it needs to have this theme ripped apart and rebuilt and it's now on WordPress until I learn enough to figure out more aggressive caching with Ruby. I have a lot of ... http://dynaonrails.com/2007/so-lost/dor-take-2/