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About andhapp

Namastey (Hello) Stranger, This is not the geekiest blog on the planet yet it is not the dumbest one either. I am a small time developer who likes to explore new technologies. I usually program in Java, Groovy and Ruby and take keen interest in the surrounding geeky developments.

Quote of the day

“Perl – The only language that looks the same before and after RSA encryption.” – Keith Bostic

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Rails mentoring

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 … Continue reading

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Apache on Mac

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, … Continue reading

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Moving from Dreamhost to Linode

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, … Continue reading

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Using cucumber-0.9.2 and cucumber-rails-0.3.2 with I18n

I have previously, blogged about using factory_girl with clearance and this post (quite similar to that one) describes the need to use messages (notice, success or failure) in your locale file with cucumber and how to go about using them. … Continue reading

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Rails3 and rspec-rails-2.0.0.beta20 and cucumber-rails-0.3.2

Last week, I started a Rails3 project and considering I am sucker for TDD. I added the current stable versions of rspec-rails and cucumber-rails to the Gemfile. Now, this is a simple project (and honestly speaking I could have just … Continue reading

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Ruby 1.9.2 and RVM

RVM is no doubt an amazing piece of code. It just makes life so much easier. Ruby 1.9.2 is out. Woo-hoo! and I tried installing it with rvm only to encounter an error. I fixed the error and this post … Continue reading

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Reading Open Source Code

I was very confused the first time I heard this phrase – “Read Open source code”. I could not really grasp the concept of reading someone else’s code. How can that improve your own programming skills? But, I can safely … Continue reading

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Bundler 1.0.0.beta.5 and Rails 2.3.8

I wrote about Bundler a couple of months ago. With newer versions of bundler out two of my issues at that time, using engines and issues with time_zone have been resolved. I am currently using bundler 1.0.0.beta.5 with a rails … Continue reading

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Publisha: the one stop publishing platform

Just started another blog to talk about programming related stuff using Publisha. And the best thing is it will be on iPhone straight-away. I don’t have to even move my finger. Cool.

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