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A Chef recipe for ProFTPD

over 2 years ago by Ben on BenCurtis.com.
I needed to deploy an anonymous FTP server, and of course I wanted to do it using Chef, so I went looking for a Chef recipe to install ProFTPD. Sadly,...

An EngineYard Cloud Gotcha

over 2 years ago by Ben on BenCurtis.com.
I’m still loving the EngineYard Cloud for my client deployments. I encountered one snag today, though, when cloning an environment for staging: Custom...

Quick Tip: MongoMapper::DocumentNotFound

~2 years ago by Ben on BenCurtis.com.
If you’d like to get a 404 response when you encounter a MongoMapper::DocumentNotFound error, which is the default response for ActiveRecord::RecordNotFound...

Holiday Projects

~2 years ago by Ben on BenCurtis.com.
For some reason I find myself starting new projects on holidays. Perhaps it’s mental decompression, or just an excuse to have some fun. Either way,...

3 years of freelancing fun

~2 years ago by Ben on BenCurtis.com.
I realized a couple of days ago that it was January of 2007 when I dove into the crazy world of freelancing full-time. It has been quite an adventure....

Interested in Building a Shopify App?

almost 2 years ago by Ben on BenCurtis.com.
In case you haven’t seen it yet, Shopify has a brilliant developer platform that makes it easy for developers to create Shopify add-ons that can be marketed...

Hiring!

almost 2 years ago by Ben on BenCurtis.com.
Well, I’ve put this off for as long as I could, but I think now is the time to make my first hire. I’m busy enough with client work and with my own...

Why Won’t FB.Connect.logoutAndRedirect work?

almost 2 years ago by Ben on BenCurtis.com.
I was banging my head against a Facebook Connect problem with one of my clients’ Rails apps recently, and I thought I’d share a useful tidbit I gleaned...

Testing an OAuth Provider in your Rails App

almost 2 years ago by Ben on BenCurtis.com.
Recently I received a request from another B2B SaaS vendor to integrate with Catch the Best, so their users could pull their data from Catch the Best into...

Why Won’t FB.Connect.logoutAndRedirect work?

almost 2 years ago by Ben on BenCurtis.com.
I was banging my head against a Facebook Connect problem with one of my clients’ Rails apps recently, and I thought I’d share a useful tidbit I gleaned...