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KDE 4.1 is broken just like KDE 4.0 was

August 6, 2008

When KDE 4.0 came out I passed on it. Being a long-time use of software in general, I've learned things that end in .0 are usually not all that great. Later I heard KDE 4.0 was indeed very broken and many were uninstalling it and going back to KDE 3.x. But when KDE 4.1 was announced recently, I decided to give it a try. I've used KDE quite a bit over the years and I really like...

RailsDB 0.3 Released

July 22, 2008

I just released a new 0.3 revision of RailsDB . You can download it here . Lots of stuff has been added and improved with the biggest additions being done by Jacek Panachida. He has added support for exporting data in several different formats including CSV, tab-delimited, and YAML. He also wrote a bunch of tests and got Mocha integrated. Some things I worked on in...

The Planet.. worst customer service.

July 15, 2008

Back in early May the co-lo server I have at The Planet experienced multiple outages over a several day period. I filed tickets with them every time an outage occured. After a few days had passed and everything cleared up, I filed a new ticket asking for some billing consideration for all the outages the previous week. After filing the ticket I was told by the support person who...

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Moving a Rails app from 1.2.6 -> 2.0.2

July 5, 2008

Recently I was tasked with upgrading a working Rails 1.2.6 application to version 2.0.2. Here are the majority of issues I found and their fixes/workarounds: Old reverse_proxy_plugin = broken functional tests: The units tests were fine, but all the functional tests were broken. Something like this: post :list, { :site_id => site.id }, { :user_id => user.id ...

Broken mirrors and fingernails

July 2, 2008

Today on the way home I was ran off the road by a blue BMW driven by a young guy with brown hair. He came flying around the corner on my side of the road and would have hit me had I not swerved over in time. Swerving over caused me to side-swipe a large plastic trash can sitting out very close to the road. The impact with the trash can snapped my passenger side mirror right off....

Responses to "benny the rock" on Zend Framework

June 20, 2008

Another misguided individual, benny, put some rather pointless opinions about Zend Framework on my blog post . I replied to them, here, in a new blog entry: > It probably took you lots of time to rant about this why not use the time more productively? In my defense, I had been coding in Rails all that day, so my increased productivity had me out ahead of the game. I...

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More silly Zend Framework idiocy..

June 16, 2008

This really misguided individual, Matthew Ratzloff , put some rather stupid comments and opinions about Zend Framework on my blog post . I replied to them, here, in a new blog entry: > Ugh. I'm having flashbacks from my computer science days, For me, in my daily work in genetics research, every day is a "computer science" day. I'm sad for you that yours seem to...

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Benchmarking Rails: Mongrel versus mod_rails

June 1, 2008

After I setup one of my Rails applications to use mod_rails yesterday, I decided today to benchmark the new setup against my old Mongrel setup. In a nutshell, I found mod_rails to be slightly faster. It certainly wasn't a huge margin of victory, but I'll take it. :) I ran these benchmark tests three times each and took the best ones. I did this to account for other tr...

How To Deploy Rails Using mod_rails On Apache

May 31, 2008

I've just spent my afternoon evaluating mod_rails . I must say I am very, very impressed so far. The install is fairly simple. Here's how I did mine: First I installed the "passenger" gem: gem install passenger Next, I used passenger to build a mod_rails module for Apache: passenger-install-apache2-module At the end of the mod_rails build proces...

Zend Framework core developers continue to dismay

May 31, 2008

So while learning Zend Framework, I realized I would need two different doctype statements in my two different view layouts, since I would be using a frameset in my admin, but then regular XHTML everywhere else. I found out pretty quickly I was unable to setup the proper logic directly in the view layout. I also noticed the buggy Zend Framework doctype() helper was allowing n...

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