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Installing Collaboa .6 on Debian Etch

over 5 years ago by katipo authors on Katipo Developers Blog.
This assumes that you have already installed things outlined here. $ sudo apt-get install swig $ sudo apt-get install libsvn-ruby1.8 $ sudo gem install...

Stupid Human Tricks with Ruby on Rails’ RXML, aka XML Builder

over 5 years ago by katipo authors on Katipo Developers Blog.
Man, I miss the old “Late Night with David Letterman” of the 80’s sometimes… Alright, to the point. Ruby on Rails makes it extremely...

Message Grouping In Thunderbird

over 5 years ago by katipo authors on Katipo Developers Blog.
Another in my line of “things I will forget unless I write them down”. Using Thunderbird as your email client? Like to have your messages grouped...

Two nice hacks for Wordpress

over 5 years ago by katipo authors on Katipo Developers Blog.
Thought I better note these down before I lose them again. Showing posts by Author Pasting content from MS Word Showing Posts By Author This one uses...

Installing ruby-zoom on Debian Testing (etch)

over 5 years ago by katipo authors on Katipo Developers Blog.
Install steps notes for Zebra, YAZ (ruby-zoom dependency), and ruby-zoom on Debian Testing (etch): * As outlined here: http://ftp.indexdata.dk/pub/zebra...

Rails: Using has_many :through associations, and the piggyback plugin to model dynamic forms

over 5 years ago by katipo authors on Katipo Developers Blog.
Note: this relies on you using EdgeRails . I’m writing an application that will allow administrators to create dynamic forms for topics. The “...

Rails: Integrating the TinyMCE plugin into ajaxscaffold generated forms

over 5 years ago by katipo authors on Katipo Developers Blog.
At the moment I’m using the ajaxscaffold generator for a couple of my controllers, one of which has a need for a rich text editor. On another project...

Button Width in IE

over 5 years ago by katipo authors on Katipo Developers Blog.
Jehiah Czebotar has come up with some good solutions for styling input button widths in MSIE http://jehiah.com/archive/button-width-in-ie And for buttons...

Installing Ruby on Rails Stack on Debian Testing

over 5 years ago by katipo authors on Katipo Developers Blog.
Ruby on Rails can be incredibly easy to install for development purposes. However, there are lots of choices when you anticipate your needs in production...

SSH, is there anything it can’t do?

over 5 years ago by katipo authors on Katipo Developers Blog.
We were working on a remote machine last week, and had vnc tunnelling through ssh to use some of the gui utitlities on the machine. And after spending a...