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Where's Nap?

over 4 years ago by Nick Plante aka nap on zerosum dirt(nap) - Home.
Things have been kind of crazy lately, and blog updates have been few and far between. Sorry about that, it’s not that I’ve run out of things...

Rails 2.0 Preview Release Available

over 4 years ago by Nick Plante aka nap on zerosum dirt(nap) - Home.
Check it out: a Preview Release of Rails 2.0 was made available yesterday. Things are “almost finished” and this is an opportunity for folks...

Presenting @ Ruby East

over 4 years ago by Nick Plante aka nap on zerosum dirt(nap) - Home.
I’m going to be at Ruby East on — oh wow, I’m already here. Hrmm, well nevermind then. Obviously things have been much too busy for pro-active...

NetBeans 6.0 Beta 1 Available

over 4 years ago by Nick Plante aka nap on zerosum dirt(nap) - Home.
NetBeans 6.0 Beta 1 is out and ready for download, including a slimmed-down Ruby-only version for those of you who don’t want all the extras. Personally...

Rock The (Rumble) Vote

over 4 years ago by Nick Plante aka nap on zerosum dirt(nap) - Home.
We launched the Voting portion of the Rails Rumble on Thursday evening, and so far it’s been a tremendous hit. Almost 4000 unique votes have been...

Overlooking The Obvious

over 4 years ago by Nick Plante aka nap on zerosum dirt(nap) - Home.
Sometimes we overlook the obvious. This had me scratching my head for a good 15 minutes yesterday. I’ll blame it on the plague (aka nasty cold) that...

Can You Feel The Rumble?

over 4 years ago by Nick Plante aka nap on zerosum dirt(nap) - Home.
So the Rails Rumble is on! We’ve worked pretty hard to hook this up and it’s great to see it alive and breathing, and #railsrumble buzzing with...

Moving to Nginx and Cap2.0

over 4 years ago by Nick Plante aka nap on zerosum dirt(nap) - Home.
So a few months back I started using nginx on my staging server, front-ending for Mongrel, and just recently I’ve stated migrating some production...

Drop A PID For Monit

over 4 years ago by Nick Plante aka nap on zerosum dirt(nap) - Home.
If you ever need to drop a pid from a Ruby process it’s dead simple: File.open('myapp.pid', 'w') { |f| f.write(Process.pid) } Now you can use Monit...

NH Ruby Next Monday Night

over 4 years ago by Nick Plante aka nap on zerosum dirt(nap) - Home.
As Scott notes over on his blog, this month’s NH Ruby meeting will be off by a week and a day this time around, due to holiday stuff. Instead of the...