by David Orriss Jr | Apr 17, 2008 | General
I got a reminder last weekend about just how critical it is to secure your WordPress-based Blog. Mine was hacked… My own fault, to be sure… Turns out that the installation scripts can be very easily hacked and SQL-injected. The end result is that your...
by David Orriss Jr | Feb 13, 2008 | Rails, Ruby
I don’t know why this isn’t better documented or stated anywhere so I’ll just iterate it here. If you want to peruse the documentation for Rails and your installed Gems type the following gem server And in your terminal prompt you should see Starting...
by David Orriss Jr | Jan 4, 2008 | J2EE, Java, Rails, Ruby
Mongrel Developer/Creator, Zed Shaw, cut loose on the Ruby and Rails communities in a recent posting to his website. He gives some interesting insights into who the major players are, and cuts through some of the hype surrounding rails. While caustic in his delivery,...
by David Orriss Jr | Oct 20, 2007 | Programming, Ruby
My friend Lori noted a great way to Add to the Ruby Library Path. She also noted that I had no way to put comments on my blog. Users would get sent to a page telling them to log in, but I never provided the login link Fixed — check out the “Links”...
by David Orriss Jr | Oct 20, 2007 | Programming, Ruby
In Ruby not library management is not always as simple as running gem install. Some Ruby code is distributed simply as libraries. So where do you put these libraries? The clue is in the Ruby $LOAD_PATH variable. irb(main):001:0> puts $LOAD_PATH...
by David Orriss Jr | Oct 9, 2007 | Programming, Ruby
I just saw on the Codegear Ruby newsgroups that a vulnerability on the net/https library was reported. Basically the library doesn’t validate the server certificate CN (Common Name). You can read the details here:...
by David Orriss Jr | Sep 23, 2007 | Mac OS X, Ruby
I saw this article on formatting ruby code for blogs. Nice article, but the code is Linux/KDE-specific. Also, OS X threw an error about the order of the require statements. Being that I use OS X (and so should you) I needed to make a couple of changes to the code that...
by David Orriss Jr | Sep 22, 2007 | Mac OS X, Ruby
Here’s a fun article on the Ruby Forum where someone provided a simple benchmarking utility. Several posters (including me) have run this to see how well Ruby runs on their system relative to other posters. n = 1_000_000 start_time = Time.now for i in 1..n t =...
by David Orriss Jr | Sep 8, 2007 | Mac OS X
So I was looking for a native-OS X BitTorrent client when I came across XTorrent. I hadn’t heard of it, but I decided to check it out. After registering it I found a message about this on a webboard I use. Apparently I wasted my money – please don’t...
by David Orriss Jr | Sep 2, 2007 | Linux, Mac OS X, Operating Systems, Windows XP
Chris Pirillo’s website has a great breakdown of Leopard vs Vista where he shows overall why Leopard is a better OS than vista. Mac OS X Leopard vs Microsoft Windows Vista While the article IS interesting what really caught me off guard was this comment from one...