Simon Morley

Bundler Problems with Capistrano RoR3

Simon Morley — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 11:13:15 +0000

There’s no doubt I was stuck on this one due to my inability to read the docs carefully. Whilst deploying an app via git using capistrano, I was continuously stuck after upgrading my gems. The reason? I wasn’t using bundle … Continue reading →

Basic Firewall Rules for Rackspace Cloud

Simon Morley — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 23:21:23 +0000

Create new file in /etc/iptables.test * filter :INPUT DROP [1:48] :FORWARD ACCEPT [0:0] :OUTPUT ACCEPT [129:20352] # Allows all loopback (lo0) traffic and drop all traffic to 127/8 that doesn’t -A INPUT -i lo -j ACCEPT #Accept SSH connections #-A … Continue reading →

Don’t install rails 3.x or RVM as root user Ubuntu

Simon Morley — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 16:09:30 +0000

A whole day’s been wasted figuring this out… Save time and energy – install RVM as single user, then install rails 3.x. Tweet

Migrating to iCloud

Simon Morley — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 12:00:02 +0000

2 hours spent upgrading my Macbook, 1 hours on my iPhone and, then Apple show me this… Tweet

RIP Steve Jobs

Simon Morley — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 01:19:58 +0000

And on to Santorini

Simon Morley — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 22:42:33 +0000

Make s3 Buckets Public s3cmd

Simon Morley — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 20:50:04 +0000

Another note to self. s3cmd setacl –acl-public –recursive s3://bucket-name/folder-name Or use in root with acl-private to lock down entire bucket. Forget the browser… Tweet

Wired in

Simon Morley — Sat, 30 Jul 2011 11:31:33 +0000

For the last (I don’t know how many) weeks, I’ve been writing the code for a new internal ordering system for PolkaSpots Supafly Wi-Fi. Having pushed the first release to our staging server, I feel like I’ve been released back … Continue reading →

Ubuntu USB Installation Unknown Keyword Problems

Simon Morley — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 18:06:42 +0000

More of a reference for myself. Could happily create an Ubuntu server 10.04 tls USB drive from an Ubuntu 10.10 desktop client but could not get the bugger to boot. Was stuck with an Unknown Keywork Problem – something to … Continue reading →

Hand-built Fixie for £200

Simon Morley — Sun, 19 Jun 2011 19:01:56 +0000

Not bad for an afternoon’s work and two trips to the bike shop. And I’ve finally used up all those spare parts that have cluttered up my life for years. Tweet