Category Archives: Techy

Programming! Also Linux, web design, hardware… But mostly programming.

using Perl and Apache on OS X

Published: 22 March 2007
What was this /private/etc/httpd/users/sarah.conf that it was talking about? I had never created this file. I checked and it certainly existed. It also had an Options line without ExecCGI--bingo! I simply removed the file because it was just redefining what I had already specified in httpd.conf for Users/*/Site directories (shown above). I then restarted Apache and voila, my scripts worked.
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reminiscing about old DOS games

Published: 17 March 2007
When I was growing up, I played all kinds of games on the PC. Many kids may have grown up on Mario Brothers with Nintendo, but my family went from having an Atari 2600 to a Playstation 2; needless to say, we skipped a few years of consoles there. So my main outlet [...]
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web design and foreign neighbors

Published: 5 March 2007
Todd’s friend Steve does game and product reviews for Gamerz-Edge, which is in need of a new layout. Todd recommended me as a web designer to Nathan, who also works there, and Nathan and I spoke this morning. We’re going to meet on Friday to discuss me taking an existing design idea of [...]
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this new Virb thing

Published: 2 March 2007
So thanks to Jem I got invited to Mint Pages Forums and thanks to that I got a Virb invite from another forum member. I now have 14 remaining invites myself, so if you want one, tell me your email address and I’ll hook you up. I’ve been having a lot of fun [...]
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a Powerbook and a list

Published: 21 February 2007
Todd ordered a refurbished Macbook off of Apple’s site the other day and he’s anxiously waiting for it to get here. Not only that, I’m anxiously awaiting its arrival. Is that because I’m a sweet girlfriend who wants to see her honey as happy as a kid on Christmas morning? Well, partially, [...]
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zombies and Atari games

Published: 25 December 2006
I’m sitting at my brother’s computer fairly nodding off. I’ve been eating popcorn and drinking hot cocoa, so it’s no wonder: warm food does a great job of making me sleepy. Happy Christmas everyone! I made out with a set of knives, a knife sharpener, an electric can opener, a set [...]
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the many methods to #find things in Rails

Published: 22 November 2006
For the longest time, I didn’t understand the full power of the various #find methods in Rails. I probably still don’t, but my understanding of them has certainly expanded. I used to use plain #find for everything. If I wanted to find all rows in the table ‘groups’ that had an ‘id’ [...]
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#post method in tests with a different controller

Published: 14 November 2006
I wanted a #login method in test_helper that would allow me to easily login from any of my functional tests. However, the #post method won’t allow you to set a different controller than the one in the @controller instance variable that’s defined in your test’s #setup. Well, by looking at how the #process method works, [...]
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new Shuffle

Published: 8 November 2006
I’m listening to my new iPod Shuffle. :) I ordered it a few days ago and it came today. I just finished filling it with songs and I’ve since been treated to Tom Petty, Placebo, Deftones, and now The Crystal Method; a nice mix. Ooh, and here’s Mary Jane’s Last Dance [...]
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layouts and graphics

Published: 20 October 2006
I found an awesome tutorial today using RMagick to create some nifty photo collages with a transparent, slide-like photos, and I can’t wait to try it out. I’m installing RMagick now and plan to experiment. Another nifty graphics-related tool that my dad found and sent to me was Fyre: “Fyre is a tool [...]
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