Rails’ script/console makes it easy to fetch, view and edit your database records. But can you edit those records as...
Hirb provides a mini view framework for console applications, designed with irb in mind.
I’m working on a problem for a client which involves connecting to a Microsoft SQL Server 2005 database from...
MMM (MySQL Master-Master Replication Manager) is a set of flexible scripts to perform monitoring/failover and management of MySQL Master...
Integrity is the angel watching over your shoulder while you code. As soon as you push your commits, it builds...
So, as a result, people using RESTful ideas to talk to browsers have to put the smarts back on the...
If you’re working on some cool ruby console-based application or just want to add a little style to...
Effortless backend interface for Ruby on Rails applications. (Admin scaffold generator.)
Rfm brings your FileMaker data to Ruby with elegance and speed. Now your Ruby scripts and Rails applications can talk...
As we get ready to upgrade our servers I thought it’d be a good time to upgrade our deployment...
I've recently moved from using Parallels for browser testing to Sun's Open Source VirtualBox. Here's a walkthrough...
The Juggernaut plugin for Ruby on Rails aims to revolutionize your Rails app by letting the server initiate a connection...
sing Google’s JavaScript Library CDN comes with a 1/3 of a second tax on missing. (Note that a tax...
Large scale server deploys using BitTorrent and the BitTornado library.
jsPDF is an open-source library for generating PDF documents using nothing but Javascript. You can use it in a...
Next in our series on not shooting yourself in the foot: Doing a sudo shutdown -h now on the main...
The FUSE project allows you to create filesystems in userspace - which means you can create a filesystem without having to...
We recently decided our CI server needed an overhaul. I really enjoyed Integrity as a build server, but after trying...
Ubuntu is phasing out the notification area (a.k.a. “system tray”), because of its ineffectiveness at notifying people of things, and...
The Netty project is an effort to provide an asynchronous event-driven network application framework and tools for rapid development...
The Holy Grail of testing for front-end development; execute browser-less, console-based, javascript + DOM code right from within...
Insert into ~/.bashrc and reload afterwards: source ~/.bashrc PS1='${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\[\033[41;33m\]\u@\h\[\033[00m...