Ruby on Rails + MySQL on Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard
I spend the last couple of hours trying to get Ruby on Rails (2.3.5) to work with MySQL on Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard. So far I have been using SQLite for Rails Development but a current project...
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Put an iPhone into Recovery Mode
Today an App crashed my iPhone pretty badly. This has never happened before and was rather awkward. I was using the App normally and after I ended it and went back to the home screen, the screen went...
View ArticleAdministrating a Linux server remotely with screen
This post is intended to be a memo for myself on the basics of the linux tool screen, which allows to have several terminal screens opened simultaneously. This comes in very handy when working on a...
View ArticleEdit images with Photoshop under Windows 7
In Windows 7 (and maybe even older Windows versions) you have 3 ways of opening an image… Just double click it and it will open with the default application. right-click -> Open with… and choose an...
View ArticleDevelop memcached web apps with XAMPP under Mac OS X
While developing scalable web applications you will come across memcached at some point. Memcached is a free & open source, high-performance, distributed memory object caching system. XAMPP is...
View ArticleMy talk about what happens behind Social Networks
On June 17 I was talking about some stories from my social community the-reality.net at Pecha Kucha Night Salzburg. Pecha Kucha Nights are happening all around the world and allow presenters to talk...
View Articleuninitialized constant MysqlCompat::MysqlRes
When running rake tasks (that are related to the database) in Rails apps I ran into the following error a couple of times on different OS X Snow Leopard machines: uninitialized constant...
View ArticleBreaking the ice
It’s been really calm around this blog for quite a while now but this is about to change. There is a lot to catch up with so I’ll get to this asap. It will be a graduate process of blogging about all...
View ArticleAmazon S3: doing the math
In the past months I have been confronted with a few web projects requiring scalable file storage solutions. One of them is my very own service comemories, which stores user-uploaded photos. Those...
View ArticleDevelop MongoDB web apps with MAMP under Mac OS X
There is still plenty of interest in my old article “Develop memcached web apps with XAMPP under Mac OS X” so I decided to write a little follow up. XAMPP for OS X hasn’t seen any updates in quite a...
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