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Rewriting a (large) PHP application in Rails, part 2

Posted on December 19, 2006 by andy

In my previous post on this topic I described the method we used to convert a legacy MySQL PHP database to a Rails conformant PostgreSQL hosted version. In this article I will tell a bit about how we converted the … Continue reading →

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Rewriting a (large) PHP application in Rails, part 1

Posted on December 13, 2006 by andy

In recent weeks I was busy converting a fairly large PHP application to Rails. The existing PHP application is about 65.500 lines of intermingled PHP and HTML/CSS code. Yep, a classic PHP application without any database abstraction layer, no templating, … Continue reading →

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smcFanControl

Posted on October 15, 2006 by andy

Found out about smcFanControl over at /. After installing the average (working) temperature of my Macbook Pro dropped from 61 degrees to about 47 degreed Celcius! Excellent! Another indispensible tool. For my wife’s Dell Inspiron I use i8kfan to achieve … Continue reading →

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Typo & Server upgrade

Posted on October 13, 2006 by andy

Upgraded to Typo trunk and moved the blog to our new colo rack @ XS4ALL. So far so good. I briefly dabbled with Mephisto as a Typo replacement and although the data migration went smoothly I would have to spend … Continue reading →

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Most bizarre bug hunt this month!

Posted on September 20, 2006 by andy

Today I spent about an hour hunting down the cause of some bizarre behavior in one of our new Rails projects. The action in question handles both GET/POST. In the GET part I do an XMLRPC call to an external … Continue reading →

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2 months with a Mac

Posted on September 1, 2006 by andy

About 2 months ago I switched from a Dell laptop running Ubuntu to a Macbook Pro running OS X. The transition went relatively smooth. My motivations for switching to a Mac were threefold; Trying something new Bang for the buck … Continue reading →

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HP Laserjet 1020 on OSX

Posted on August 26, 2006 by andy

We purchased a couple of dirt cheap LaserJet 1020 printers for the office and home. While they work fine in Windows and Ubuntu Linux (with proper hackery applied) getting it to work on OSX is not straight forward. If you … Continue reading →

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Stuff it Stuffit

Posted on August 25, 2006 by andy

Broken.

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XS4ALL Crazy Colo Night history

Posted on August 9, 2006 by andy

At the last Crazy Colo Nights of XS4ALL we wrote a little history. It seems we were the first customer ever to bring their server for immediate placement! That’s actually the first dedicated Rails server of my company!! We’ve already … Continue reading →

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Moving on

Posted on August 1, 2006 by andy

Yesterday was my last day at Noterik. I spend almost four years there, had loads of fun, learned a great deal and was able to work on some very cool projects. Good luck guys, it was excellent! Today I start … Continue reading →

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