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Category Archives: Programming

better*practices: The Case for Account-based Subdomains

01-Oct-05

One of Web 2.0’s darling applications, [Basecamp][1], uses account-based subdomains to provide an easy-to-remember, personalized URL for each account. Aside from the above benefits, I’ve discovered another helpful feature enabled by such a practice: password management.
Most modern browsers provide some way to save site passwords, whether by hooking into the OS capabilities or by rolling […]

Lighttpd 1.4.3 update

02-Sep-05

I’ve been working on the Darwinports Portfile for Lighttpd 1.4.3, but for some reason it won’t compile with SSL on my machine. Until I can get a working compile, you won’t see a 1.4.x release of Lighttpd through Darwinports.
(I do have 1.4.0 submitted, but need to change the file to use local patches instead of […]

Why I love Rails

27-Aug-05

Two pieces of Clutter development just got a whole lot simpler thanks to the hard work of other Rails developers… all the extra work I put into the tagging code can now be obsoleted and replaced with:
acts_as_taggable
thanks to [a little ActiveRecord wizardry][1]. And file uploads? Just as easy with […]

Lighttpd 1.4.0!

20-Aug-05

I’ve submitted the Lighttpd 1.4.0 port to DarwinPorts for committing. Hopefully that will happen within the next few days. I intend to work on adding some suggested elements (startup item and automatically installed configuration file) as well as providing variants for CML and LDAP within the next few weeks, but I wanted to get an […]

Deadline time

19-Aug-05

I’m going to have a demo of __Clutter__ up this weekend. I’ve been so busy with other responsibilities that I haven’t so much as looked at the code in two weeks (not to mention that updated lighttpd portfile I’d been promising. I just received an update patch that I’ll be integrating tomorrow morning.
Part of the […]