Creating App Docs When deploying with Capistrano

Wednesday, October 5th, 2011


A quick Capistrano recipe to automate the build of documentation when the application is deployed. Using a rake task we can build html documentation automatically based from the source files of the application. Continue reading →

Adding README to Gitorious repository page (like github)

Wednesday, August 31st, 2011


We have recently migrated to gitorious for our git server rather than previously using github.  It has most of the same features but had the advantage of being able to install it on your own hardware.  For all the projects … Continue reading →

Web App Review: Error Notification with Airbrake (formally Hoptoad)

Thursday, August 25th, 2011


I have started to up the ante in regards to using software to make my rails development a little easier.  One of the first i found which made life easier was certainly Hoptoad, now called Airbrake (http://airbrakeapp.co.uk). Airbrake is a … Continue reading →

New Project: Hostee

Wednesday, August 24th, 2011


I’ve been a bit quiet for a long time (a lot longer than i realised, it’s been almost a year since my last post. I just thought id announce a new project i’m working on here. At work i have … Continue reading →

Serialise a ruby hash into a database field

Friday, September 24th, 2010


Earlier today i started creating a google widgets type system for our corporate intranet. Each widget can have its own set of options for each user, I have a table declaring each users widgets with a field called widget_params i … Continue reading →

Finding the process ID of a process running on a specific port

Thursday, August 12th, 2010


Im in the process of redeveloping an existing site. Its a small site that whilst i develop i am running on rails built in server using port 3003. This means i can work on it on the server its destined … Continue reading →

Using Tinymce with Interchange

Tuesday, July 27th, 2010


Interchange the ecommerce application based upon perl has a HTMLAREA widget within the backend that can be used to provide a rich text area for editing content. This can be configured to use fckeditor or htmlarea however I find both … Continue reading →

Interchange Not Starting – No Sockets INTERCHANGE SERVER TERMINATING

Monday, July 12th, 2010


The moment every computer user dreads happened over the weekend. My Macbook wouldn’t boot, it seems it was down to a corrupted boot file. After a reinstall and a restore from a time machine backup (I LOVE time machine My … Continue reading →

What information do you want using Geektools

Friday, July 2nd, 2010


Thanks for all the feedback from you my readers. It certainly seems my most popular articles seem to be about Geektools. I’ve had a few requests from my readers for howtos many of which i would not have thought of. … Continue reading →

Displaying Hardware Temperatures With Macbook

Friday, July 2nd, 2010


One of our readers requested information on displaying Macbook hardware temperatures on their desktop using geektools. Below is a quick summary of what you need to do, unfortunatlly its not quite as simple as you’d hope.