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ScotRUG Meeting: Capistrano 2 rocks my world

almost 5 years ago by Graeme Mathieson on Notes from a messy desk.
At this month’s Scottish Ruby User Group meeting, I’ll be talking about some of the neat things I’ve been doing with Capistrano 2 lately...

Shiny new Canon EF-S 10-22mm lens

almost 5 years ago by Graeme Mathieson on Notes from a messy desk.
I’ve been lusting after a lens that will give me wide angle shots on an APS-C sized sensor for a while. There’s just something wonderful to...

Double space vs. Single space

almost 5 years ago by Graeme Mathieson on Notes from a messy desk.
One of the companies I’m contracting for just now (which is actually nearing the stage where I might be able to talk about some of our fun, exciting...

Tip: Mark all those annoying iPhone blog posts as ‘read’

almost 5 years ago by Graeme Mathieson on Notes from a messy desk.
OK. I admit it. I’m just insanely jealous and I want an iPhone too. But what with being in the UK, I’m just going to have to be patient and...

Tracking which deployment you’re looking at

almost 5 years ago by Graeme Mathieson on Notes from a messy desk.
Inspired by PJ’s Err the Blog post Cappin’ the Stat, I decided to put together a similar recipe of my own. Sometimes I want to know which version...

Integrating capistrano with SMF

almost 5 years ago by Graeme Mathieson on Notes from a messy desk.
I’ve got a new application I’m in the process of deploying in order to demo for a client (no, it’s not ready for everybody else to have...

Solaris: Upgrading to Sun Studio 12

almost 5 years ago by Graeme Mathieson on Notes from a messy desk.
I should probably be ashamed that it’s taken me this long to notice: I don’t have a compiler installed in my zones! I discovered this afternoon...

New in Edge Rails: Kine!

almost 5 years ago by Graeme Mathieson on Notes from a messy desk.
I’ve just done a piston update on a project I’m doing that’s using edge Rails and was reviewing the changes. Apart from the lovely documentation...

Solaris: Logging to a separate loghost, the easy way

almost 5 years ago by Graeme Mathieson on Notes from a messy desk.
I had a little difficulty Googling for this one, so I thought I’d share. I’m sure you’ve all seen the following in /etc/syslogd.confauth...

Free t-shirts!

almost 5 years ago by Graeme Mathieson on Notes from a messy desk.
Well, for me, at least. After I mentioned my experiences with Splunk recently, a couple of Splunk’s folks got in touch with me by email, asking...