Category quickie

• MAY 21 2011

  Hiding ruby gem 'is deprecated with no replacement' messages

  Filed under quickie, rails, ruby, and rvm.

  How to hide all the ugly ruby deprecation messages when you upgrade... read more

• OCT 03 2010

  HABTM before_filter in rails models

  Filed under database, habtm, quickie, rails, and ruby.

  How to automatically add an object to a habtm field on save... read more

• OCT 03 2010

  Excluding fields from rails json and xml output

  Filed under json, quickie, rails, rest, ruby, and xml.

  How to stop specific fields from being output when rendering to json or xml... read more

• MAR 17 2010

  Push and delete remote git branches

  Filed under git, programming, quickie, and version control.

  A few simple pointers on managing remote git branches... read more

• MAR 06 2010

  sources.list For Ubuntu Hardy Heron 8.04

  Filed under apt-get, aptitude, linux, quickie, and ubuntu.

  I always have to go looking for this, so here it is... read more

• MAR 06 2010

  How to find out if Ubuntu is 32 bit or 64 bit

  Filed under linux and quickie.

  A quickie that i always forget.... read more

• NOV 18 2009

  nginx error - 413 Request Entity Too Large

  Filed under linux, nginx, programming, quickie, and web.

  How to increase the allowed file upload size in Nginx, and stop 413 Request Entity Too Large errors... read more

• NOV 12 2009

  Makefile - missing separator. Stop.

  Filed under linux, make, programming, and quickie.

  How to fix missing separator errors in Makefiles... read more

• NOV 10 2009

  NoReverseMatch : custom registration templates break django unit tests

  Filed under django, programming, python, quickie, and web.

  How to fix NoReverseMatch errors in the django auth and django-registration test suites when you are using customized login and registration templates... read more

• OCT 16 2009

  Sending Django email with Gmail

  Filed under django, programming, python, quickie, and web.

  How to set up your Django application so email is sent through Gmail... read more

• AUG 18 2009

  Compiling mysql-python on OS X leopard

  Filed under database, django, mysql, osx, programming, python, and quickie.

  How to get around a few of the problems you may encounter trying to install mysql-python bindings on OS X Leopard... read more

• AUG 09 2009

  InnoDB as default MySQL table type

  Filed under database, innodb, linux, mysql, programming, and quickie.

  How to change the default MySQL table type... read more

• AUG 05 2009

  Flushing the DNS cache on OS X

  Filed under dns, linux, osx, quickie, and web.

  How to manually flush the DNS cache on OS X to force /etc/hosts changes to take effect... read more

• JUN 18 2009

  MySQL table 'is marked as crashed'

  Filed under database, linux, programming, and quickie.

  What to do if you are getting an error similar to 'mysqldump: Got error: 145: Table xxxxx is marked as crashed and should be repaired when using LOCK TABLES'... read more

• JUN 06 2009

  python 2.5 zipimport.ZipImportError on OS X

  Filed under linux, osx, programming, python, and quickie.

  How to get fix "zipimport.ZipImportError: can't decompress data; zlib not available" errors running python 2.5 on OS X... read more

• JUN 06 2009

  Python 2.5 "ImportError: No module named _md5" on OS X

  Filed under linux, osx, programming, python, and quickie.

  What to do if you are getting an "ImportError: No module named _md5" using Python 2.5 on OS X... read more

• JUN 06 2009

  HTTPSHandler error using python 2.5 and GAE on OS X

  Filed under linux, osx, programming, python, quickie, and web.

  How to fix "AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'HTTPSHandler'" errors running python 2.5 on OS X... read more

• JUN 02 2009

  Exclude tables from mysqldump

  Filed under database, linux, programming, and quickie.

  How to exclude certain tables from mysqldump... read more

• APR 29 2009

  'spec/rake/spectask' errors doing rake db:migrate

  Filed under linux, programming, quickie, ruby, and web.

  What to do if you get "no such file to load -- spec/rake/spectask_" errors running rake db:migrate... read more

• APR 26 2009

  'Can't find Magick-config' error installing rmagick gem

  Filed under linux, programming, quickie, ruby, and web.

  How to fix a 'Can't find Magick-config' error when installing the rmagick gem... read more

• FEB 24 2009

  undefined method assert_valid_keys in Rails

  Filed under database, programming, quickie, rails, ruby, and web.

  How to fix 'undefined method assert_valid_keys' errors in Rails... read more

• DEC 23 2008

  Nginx adds strange characters using rails/memcached_pass

  Filed under linux, memcached, nginx, programming, quickie, rails, ruby, and web.

  How to stop strange characters appearing when using rails, memcached and the nginx memcached_pass directive... read more

• DEC 22 2008

  Phusion Passenger PassengerMaxPoolSize is ignored

  Filed under apache, programming, quickie, rails, ruby, and web.

  How to setup apache so that the Phusion Passenger PassengerMaxPoolSize, PassengerMaxInstancesPerApp and PassengerPoolIdleTime directives are not ignored... read more

• DEC 21 2008

  Pylons - LookupError: Entry point 'main' not found in egg

  Filed under linux, programming, python, quickie, and web.

  How to fix 'LookupError: Entry point 'main' not found in egg' errors in Pylons... read more

• OCT 24 2008

  iTerm Delete Key Config

  Filed under linux, osx, programming, and quickie.

  Fix up peculiar delete key behaviour in OS X... read more

• JUL 15 2008

  Simulate delayed-fade in jQuery

  Filed under javascript, jquery, programming, quickie, and web.

  How to create a fade effect after a delay in jQuery... read more

• JUL 14 2008

  svn: Can't find a temporary directory: Internal error

  Filed under linux, programming, quickie, subversion, and version control.

  How to fix SVN 'Can't find a temporary directory: Internal error'... read more

• DEC 05 2007

  Default Values With Hibernate Annotations

  Filed under database, hibernate, java, programming, quickie, and web.

  How to set the default value of a field with Hibernate... read more

• DEC 05 2007

  Complex Constants in Java

  Filed under java, programming, and quickie.

  How to assign a complex class (such as a HashMap / ArrayList etc) as a constant in Java... read more

• DEC 05 2007

  Adding Appfuse Dependencies

  Filed under appfuse, java, programming, quickie, and web.

  How to add a dependency to AppFuse... read more

• DEC 02 2007

  MySQL Delete On Joined Tables

  Filed under database, mysql, programming, and quickie.

  How to delete records from MySQL using joined fields... read more

• NOV 28 2007

  Get complete AppFuse sources

  Filed under appfuse, java, programming, quickie, and web.

  How to get the complete, exploded source of an AppFuse application... read more

• NOV 27 2007

  Skip AppFuse Tests

  Filed under appfuse, java, programming, quickie, and web.

  How to skip tests when compiling/running AppFuse applications... read more

• NOV 27 2007

  Appfuse "failed to lazily initialize a collection of role"

  Filed under appfuse, database, java, programming, quickie, and web.

  Fix the 'failed to lazily initialize a collection of role' error in AppFuse... read more

• NOV 26 2007

  Hibernate OneToMany Relationships

  Filed under database, hibernate, java, programming, quickie, spring mvc, and web.

  An example of a one-to-many relationship using Spring MVC and Hibernate... read more

• NOV 21 2007

  Hibernate 'TYPE=storage_engine is deprecated'

  Filed under database, hibernate, java, programming, quickie, and web.

  Fixing 'TYPE=storage_engine is deprecated' warnings in Hibernate... read more

• JUL 26 2007

  JScript Debugger for IE

  Filed under javascript, programming, quickie, and web.

  How to install and enable JavaScript debugging for Internet Explorer... read more

• JUL 25 2007

  Set OS X Default Shell

  Filed under linux, osx, programming, and quickie.

  How to change the default shell in OS X... read more

• JUL 25 2007

  Regex to reject an extension

  Filed under programming and quickie.

  A regular expression expression to reject strings with a certain extension... read more

• JUL 25 2007

  OS X zsh shell config

  Filed under linux, osx, programming, and quickie.

  zsh shell configuration file for OS X... read more

• JUN 04 2007

  Add Dreamweaver Extensions

  Filed under php, programming, and quickie.

  How to color-code extra extensions in Dreamweaver CS3... read more

• MAY 16 2007

  Replacing text with sed

  Filed under php, programming, and quickie.

  How to use sed to replace text in files... read more

• APR 13 2007

  Quit cocoa app on window close

  Filed under cocoa, objective c, osx, programming, and quickie.

  How to make your cocoa application exit when the window is closed... read more

• APR 05 2007

  Cocoa NSTextView setHidden

  Filed under cocoa, objective c, os x, programming, and quickie.

  How to hide an NSTextView in objective C... read more

• MAR 27 2007

  Change the SSH login message

  Filed under linux, quickie, security, and ssh.

  How to customize your SSH login screen... read more

• MAR 22 2007

  Vi as default crontab editor

  Filed under cron, linux, osx, programming, and quickie.

  Change the default crontab editor... read more

• MAR 22 2007

  Stop cron emails

  Filed under cron, linux, quickie, security, and ssh.

  Stop annoying emails every time a cron job is run... read more

• MAR 08 2007

  Install Ubuntu SSH server

  Filed under linux, quickie, security, and ssh.

  Ubuntu Enterprise 6 doesn't seem to install sshd out-of-the-box... read more

• MAR 08 2007

  Configure Ubuntu w/ Static IP

  Filed under linux, quickie, security, and web.

  Ubuntu Enterprise 6 doesn't seem to give an option to enter a static IP during install if you have DHCP available... read more

• FEB 07 2007

  Cake actions from the terminal

  Filed under linux, php, programming, quickie, and web.

  How to call CakePHP actions from the command line... read more

• FEB 06 2007

  Find large folders

  Filed under linux and quickie.

  How to find the largest n folders on linux... read more

• JAN 02 2007

  Delete files by extension

  Filed under linux, programming, and quickie.

  How to recursively delete all files with a given extension on linux... read more

• DEC 31 2006

  Splitting up Django models

  Filed under django, linux, programming, python, and quickie.

  Django models are all grouped in one file by default. Here's how to split them up into logical groups... read more

• OCT 04 2006

  Shell coloring for iTerm

  Filed under linux, osx, programming, and quickie.

  Make iTerm easier to use with shell coloring... read more

• SEP 28 2006

  Recover Corrupted Svn DB

  Filed under database, linux, programming, quickie, subversion, and version control.

  How to recover your repository if you're getting 'Corrupted' error messages... read more

• SEP 27 2006

  Useful .bashrc Functions

  Filed under bash, linux, programming, and quickie.

  A couple of useful functions for .bashrc... read more

• SEP 27 2006

  Get SVN Revision No.

  Filed under linux, programming, quickie, subversion, and version control.

  Simple one-liner for getting the svn revision number... read more

• SEP 27 2006

  Flash Lite 'Out Of Memory'

  Filed under flash, mobile, programming, and quickie.

  How to increase the default memory limit when building Flash Lite applications... read more

• SEP 26 2006

  Turn On Vi Syntax Coloring

  Filed under linux, programming, quickie, and vi.

  How to turn on vi syntax colouring on RedHat... read more