Being that this is a fresh install of Ubuntu I did go ahead and apt-get ruby1.8 and rubygems just to kick things off a bit before installing rails and my reguire gems... After the apt-get rubygems install I wanted to update the gems I had by running sudo gem update system ... So now was the time to install rails by using sudo gem install rails Big fail as I got an error... After some looking it seems that you can add this line to the /usr/bin/gem file: require rubygems/gem_runner after the require rubygems ... However Those that needed the ruby dev started to throw a ton of errors during the make portion... … View Post »

However I do use WordPress, and while I didn t upgrade in a while until a few weeks ago I did have problems with the WordPress versions I was using being suspectible to hack attempts and injecting malicous code into my posts... While I never figured out how the attacks were being done I did notice that Google noticed... I recieved word from Cassknits that she could really enjoy the site because Google had slapped a malicous site label on me... Yes in fact a lookup of techraving on google search did show such a branding... One post I either didn t catch or got re-injected... Only a week after the upgrade though I I wasn t getting hit on evry post :)... … View Post »

In my belief that I could actually take some free time to explore new learning I set about last Monday night to set up a website that ran on a single port... I have never done this so I needed Apache to rewrite or proxy to that port so the application could work... It really was just a test application so I could learn how to do such things with apache... That s when I found out that I was processing about 9 requests per second on my box through the proxy... Of course at first I freaked not wanting all this traffic that was coming through, only thing about how it would affect my network not to mention any hack attempts against my server... A lot of the proxies seemed to be gaming affiliate systems... Using the open proxy I accidentaly created I became the hacker against it and sought to see if I could protect an application against this sort of gaming... One of the not so stricking lessons was that the user-agent was a standard browser user-agent *cough*FireFox*cough*... … View Post »

Not that I was ever far from the computer mind you... The past four months I have been coding every day and ngiht including weekends to deliver some projects... a week after starting it I had to break off and help out with the solutions center stuff for about a month... Working only in the evening/weekends on how to best build an affiliate program... You re sure to notice all the posts about CherryPy , that s because the decision was made to go with that for theaffiliate server since I didn t need a true Python framework for tracking... However I am proud ofmy work and have lot s of great things to present to you about my working with CherryPy 3.1.0... The CherryPy script isa really simple deploy script and daemonizing CherryPy has so much more performance... addthis_url = ' http%3A%2F%2Fwww.techraving.com%2F2008%2F09%2F16%2Fback-in-the-blogger-saddle-again%2F ' ; addthis_title = ' Back+in+the+Blogger+Saddle+Again ' ; addthis_pub = ' DarkRyder ' ;... … View Post »

I use it for light communication between friends or to help out those with questions when I can... Otherwise I am happy to just stay heads down in code... What s the point of this site, really... … View Post »

I have figured out how to make the editor here maintain the indention on posts and have corrected the code... … View Post »

This is an example of why python sucks... All the example code won t work, because the whitespace has been deleted... … View Post »

I m still plucking away at this project as time allows using CherryPy... This weekend I just started to use it and finally got a working environmental configuration system and then next step was to figure out if RESTful controllers could be used... This is due to the CherryPy RoutesDispatcher using the routes library... … View Post »

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