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Frankinstall Tweaking Ruby Mongrels

Saturday, December 23rd, 2006

What a fun few days! I reported earlier I was in the midst of Ruby on Rails. The small project is coming along fine. Even though I could quickly build in Python or PHP, its time to learn and immerse myself in a new language - and more importantly, a new platform.
This platform is more [...]

Climb every Mountain

Tuesday, December 19th, 2006

Spent the last week and this week on a personal Ruby on Rails project. This involves subversion (as a version management system), mongrel, capistrano, ftp, postgresql, some smarts with DNS, exim and a two-day complete re-install of Debian. That re-install was not expected.
Unix has this wonderful and powerful concept: the root user knows what they [...]

VoIP is probably easier than I thought

Friday, November 10th, 2006

Churn to Internode Issue in our household is the nGb/month - not mGb/second. Whilst Internode has yet to install ADSL+ into our exchange, I am happy to wait for 'em, and rid outselves of Bigmuddle/Bigpuddle.
Purchase Nodephone service, and get a "incoming" phone number
Install Asterisk on our Debian server
Install a Softphone, maybe buy an ATA (or [...]