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WTF: "I never said I'm against testing, I just don't do it..."

almost 3 years ago by Josh Goebel on Pastie << self.
Bit of wisdom from the #rubyonrails... flankk: I never said I'm against testing, I just don't do it and these are some of my reasons. I'm mostly against...

Survive hard economic times in the Bahamas at RailsBizConf 2009

~3 years ago by Josh Goebel on Pastie << self.
Looks like a potential new RailsBizConf in the works says Obie Fernandez in a message to the rails-business google group: I am in preliminary stages of...

Getting "Open With" back under control

~3 years ago by Josh Goebel on Pastie << self.
So I have a few apps installed (and a few instances of Fluid) and this is what my Open With menu used to look like: A little Googling found me Many Trick...

Copyright Hysteria

~3 years ago by Josh Goebel on Pastie << self.
The first case of the pot calling the kettle black this new year: Jason Freed blogs about Trademark hysteria and how trademarks are being misused by companies...

Passenger Woes - nil.controller_name in Sweepers module

~3 years ago by Josh Goebel on Pastie << self.
So I deploy an existing app using Passenger for the first time and hit this: Embedded pastie: The only Google results had to do with components and how...

Arts plugin and Rails 2.2.2

~3 years ago by Josh Goebel on Pastie << self.
It seems the arts plugin has some problems with Rails 2.2.2. Seems to be a simple enough fix. I simply added the following to the bottom of my arts.rb file...

HAProxy 1.3 on CentOS

~3 years ago by Josh Goebel on Pastie << self.
I used the examples/haproxy.spec to build a RPM of HAProxy 1.2. It was painless. 1.3 was a bit more annoying but I got it working and thought I should share...

Pastie: Lesson 1 - Question your first assumption

~3 years ago by Josh Goebel on Pastie << self.
So before I dug in to really work on Pastie I did a quick bump from 2.0 to 2.1. And I was instantly horrified at memory usage. "Memory out of bounds" e-mails...

Re-factoring Pastie: Lessons Learned

~3 years ago by Josh Goebel on Pastie << self.
It's been almost 2.5 years since Pastie #1. For the most part Pastie has changed little. I can only think of a few new features that have appeared since...

Pastie adds embedding JS support

~3 years ago by Josh Goebel on Pastie << self.
So you like pasting your code to Pastie, but you've always wished it was easier to include that same code in your blog or webpages? Wish no longer. Below...