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Monthly Archives: November 2005

Many returns

11-Nov-05

At the end of June 2004, I boarded a plane (after having shipped a mere fraction of my possessions ahead of me, discarded over fifty percent of what I had accrued, and stored the rest at the homes of friends and family) bound for Maui. I’d done some research before leaving Boston, but I’d never […]

In Today’s News

11-Nov-05

As if it really surprises anyone, [affluent white Christian fundamentalists who live in the ‘burbs][1] tend to believe Bush Jr. is honest and doing a great job. Sure, I’ll concede he’s doing a “[heck of a job][2].”
[1]: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/11/AR2005111100624_pf.html
[2]: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=heck+of+a+job&defid=1467049

Lighttpd 1.4.7

08-Nov-05

I just submitted the Portfile for Lighttpd 1.4.7 to Darwinports. There may be a lag before it’s available, but I’ve got it working great on my local machine. The new Portfile also includes a copy of lighttpd.conf, which I’d love to be able to install to a default location, but I’m not quite sure how […]

Helpful rake tasks for using Rails with Subversion

06-Nov-05

If you’re running Rails 1.0RC or 0.14.1+, drop the following code in a file entitled `svn.rake` in the `lib/tasks` directory of your rails application:
desc "Configure Subversion for Rails"
task :configure_for_svn do
system "svn remove log/*"
system "svn commit -m ‘removing all log files from subversion’"
system ’svn propset svn:ignore "*.log" log/’
system […]

Manageability

05-Nov-05

I’m starting to see my project level coming down to something a little more manageable. If all of them were paid, I’d be rolling in the dough right now, but several of them are personal and the only unpaid work I’m doing outside of my personal projects has to do with an idea I think […]