I was in two minds about this post’s title. On one hand, I think this should be called “Why googling is not the answer to every question?” and on the other hand the current title will probably interest more people. Rails inflections is not the main focus of this post. This post is a consequence [...]
Commenting multiple lines is mostly used when one is debugging and quickly wants to take a piece of code out, just to put it back again. Here’s how one can achieve in the same in MacVim. 1. Press ‘V’ on your keyboard and use the arrow key to select the code snippet to be commented [...]
This post is in continuation to my earlier post which simply mentions the move of this blog from Dreamhost to Linode and this post is an attempt to expound on a little bit of the details and the experience. This was not just a move from shared hosting a.k.a Dreamhost to a vps solution a.k.a [...]
“Perl – The only language that looks the same before and after RSA encryption.” – Keith Bostic
A great way to learn is by teaching others. Why? Because explaining solutions to others gives you a greater understanding of the problem and the solution itself. I have never had any opportunities to really mentor anyone before. Recently, I signed up to RailsMentors site as a mentor and few weeks after that I actually [...]
To restart apache on Mac, all you need to do is uncheck(and check) Web Sharing through your System Preferences -> Internet and Network -> Sharing but what it does not tell you is any error messages in the config. Therefore, it would look like that the apache has restarted but the server would still not [...]
Yes, after 3 years with DreamHost, I have finally moved my blog to a Linode server and it did not go as planned therefore, lack of activity on the blog. I never had any issues with it. It was cheap, gave me easy options to install WordPress and all. But being a programmer, I wanted [...]