8bit/scraps

Creating a comfortable working environment

Graham — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 10:26:17 +0000

With more working at home comes the need to improve my working environment. Before the weekend i had a small uncomfortable desk to work out which was no longer suitable for my needs. So i decided to go out and build my own desk meaning i could create it to fit my room. With a [...]

Creating App Docs When deploying with Capistrano

Graham — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 14:33:31 +0000

I’ve been starting to use capistrano and a couple of projects lately. One thing i wanted to do when i deploy my app is generate documentation automatically. I sat there wondering how to do this with capistrano for a few minutes and performed a few searches before i realised how you do this is blindingly [...]

Adding README to Gitorious repository page (like github)

Graham — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 17:48:51 +0000

We have recently migrated to gitorious for our git server rather than previously using github. It has most of the same features but had the advantage of being able to install it on your own hardware. For all the projects we wanted to host on git privately the cost soon mounted up on github. After [...]

Web App Review: Error Notification with Airbrake (formally Hoptoad)

Graham — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 15:02:40 +0000

I have started to up the ante in regards to using software to make my rails development a little easier. One of the first i found which made life easier was certainly Hoptoad, now called Airbrake (http://airbrakeapp.co.uk). Airbrake is a web application designed to make dealing with error notifications easier. In the past i have [...]

New Project: Hostee

Graham — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 15:15:03 +0000

I’ve been a bit quiet for a long time (a lot longer than i realised, it’s been almost a year since my last post. I just thought id announce a new project i’m working on here. At work i have to manage a lot of hosting and domain billing for the clients. I inherited from [...]

Serialise a ruby hash into a database field

Graham — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 13:32:55 +0000

Earlier today i started creating a google widgets type system for our corporate intranet. Each widget can have its own set of options for each user, I have a table declaring each users widgets with a field called widget_params i wanted to save the options into that one widget. The information to save came from [...]

Finding the process ID of a process running on a specific port

Graham — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 12:49:25 +0000

Im in the process of redeveloping an existing site. Its a small site that whilst i develop i am running on rails built in server using port 3003. This means i can work on it on the server its destined to be applied without affecting the original site, (This will make it a breeze to [...]

Using Tinymce with Interchange

Graham — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 10:00:00 +0000

Interchange the ecommerce application based upon perl has a HTMLAREA widget within the backend that can be used to provide a rich text area for editing content. This can be configured to use fckeditor or htmlarea however I find both these editors a bit ugly and hard to configure, there also over the top for [...]

Interchange Not Starting – No Sockets INTERCHANGE SERVER TERMINATING

Graham — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 20:28:39 +0000

The moment every computer user dreads happened over the weekend. My Macbook wouldn’t boot, it seems it was down to a corrupted boot file. After a reinstall and a restore from a time machine backup (I LOVE time machine My work has a time capsule on a netgear NAS) everything was back to normal. Or [...]

What information do you want using Geektools

Graham — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 20:25:21 +0000

Thanks for all the feedback from you my readers. It certainly seems my most popular articles seem to be about Geektools. I’ve had a few requests from my readers for howtos many of which i would not have thought of. I’d like to know what you display on your geektools desktop and if there’s anything [...]