Monthly Archives: December 2006

It’s time for Naked DSL!

12/29/2006 – 9:26 pm

Excellent news today from the FCC. From the AP: The Federal Communications Commission unanimously approved AT&T Inc.’s $86 billion buyout of BellSouth Corp. Friday, the day after the company offered a new slate of concessions for consumers and competitors. The FCC’s approval was the last major regulatory hurdle for the proposed deal, which is the [...]

By jasonb | Posted in Money | Comments (0)

Rails Plugin: Asset Bundle

12/22/2006 – 11:48 pm

Tonight I have been finishing up a plugin heavily based upon Scott Becker’s AssetPackager based upon my own interpretations of Serving JavaScript Fast. Mostly, I changed the way packages were handled, inserting each revision into a versioned directory instead of altering the filename. Further, jsPacker.pl is now preferred over jsmin if it is present in [...]

By jasonb | Posted in Rails | Comments (0)

Apache Reverse Proxying Trac

12/21/2006 – 11:48 pm

I can’t think of any sane reason to reverse proxy Trac when you can serve it up under Apache over SSL, except when you can’t. I backported the latest version of Trac, 0.10.2, to Debian Sarge. The process was quite painful, but the result won’t run under mod_python without some additional backporting, though ultimately that [...]

By jasonb | Posted in The LAN | Comments (0)

Mootools, Tips, and IE Operation Aborted

12/16/2006 – 1:22 am

By its very nature, it seems the development of Internet Explorer would be aptly named: Operation Aborted. However, of what I speak is the message, Internet Explorer cannot open the Internet site. Operation Aborted. There are a variety of circumstances that are believed to be the cause, but in the instance of using mootool‘s tips [...]

By jasonb | Posted in JavaScript | Comments (2)

Ajax Scaffold, a Perfect Case for Rails Engines

12/15/2006 – 12:03 am

Finally, I found some time to install Ajax Scaffold plugin tonight. I did have to wait an hour while asking the perpetual question, Is rubyforge ever up? Eventually, it was, and installed the plugin I did. After configuration, Ajax Scaffold immediately copied some files into my project directories, including public/javascript, public/images, and apps/views. Clearly, those [...]

By jasonb | Posted in Rails | Comments (0)