Adam has been with Plexus for eight years and most days he can be found in his corner of the office, saddled up to his computer and listening to his iPod, which (rumor has it) is loaded wit ABBA and Celine Dion songs. When not "programming" databases and fixing the myriad of computer problems that happen on a day-to-day basis at Plexus, Adam can be found making a difference in the Athens community with projects such as volunteer work at the Athens Area Homeless Shelter. Adam and his wife Hollis were married over the summer, and, despite inviting the entire Plexus Staff, the event went off without a hitch.
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How to Remove External Rails Plugins from your Application
Posted on
01/24/2008
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There isn't a single command in subversion to remove external plugins from your application so I figured I would post this to help the next person save 10 minutes of reading docs.
Make sure you are in the root of your app and do:
svn propedit svn:externals vendor/plugins
Just delete the line(s) of the plugins you no longer want.
If you get the following error then you need to set your environment variable.
svn: None of the environment variables SVN_EDITOR, VISUAL or EDITOR is set, and no 'editor-cmd' run-time configuration option was found
You can set your SVN_EDITOR to use TextMate like so:
export SVN_EDITOR='mate -w'
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12/13/20070 Comments
With Christmas around the corner I have started looking at all the things I don't need but really, really want. A couple of months ago I bought an HD TV and armed it with an HD TiVo. I promised myself (and my wife) that I would stop there but secretly knew that a regular SD DVD player was an embarrassing item to have in my entertainment center. In my search for more HD goodness, I started looking at HD DVD players and Blu-Ray players. I have always hated the idea of using a format created by Sony because of the cost to the consumer (ie, PlayStation Memory Cards) so my searching was more HD DVD oriented. Today I found the one feature that beats Blu-Ray one million times to one.
That's right. Season One of the Original Star Trek in HD. Only available in HD DVD format. What more could you possibly need to convince you that HD DVD is the format to have?
Mac OSX Open Terminals from Location in Finder
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09/10/20070 Comments
on run {input, parameters}
set topleft to {5, 25}
set topright to {860, 25}
set bottomleft to {5, 520}
set bottomright to {860, 520}
set locations to {topleft, topright, bottomleft, bottomright}
repeat with loc in locations
tell application "Terminal"
activate
with timeout of 1800 seconds
set firstpath to item 1 of input
do script with command "cd " & (quoted form of POSIX path of firstpath)
tell window 1
set position to loc
set number of columns to 130
set number of rows to 32
end tell
end timeout
end tell
end repeat
end run
Rails Caching non HTML Files in a Different Cache Location
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05/08/20071 Comment
We use page caching in Rails to speed up sites and improve performance. This is a great feature of Rails but can get cumbersome when trying to keep up with which pages to sweep and when. To make life easier we use a separate directory to house the cache. This solution is great for files that end in a .html extension but for other file types you need a new rewrite rule for mod_rewrite. The example below is for caching dynamic images.
RewriteRule ^([^"cache"].+)\.(png)$ cache/$1.png
I am rewriting any request for a .png to have the cache/ added to the beginning of the url. I am also checking to make sure the url hasn't already been rewritten otherwise Apache gets stuck in a loop rewriting the url. Depending on the application, you may need to add a slash in front of cache like so:
RewriteRule ^([^"cache"].+)\.(png)$ /cache/$1.png
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04/10/20070 Comments
While playing around at lunch today I stumbled across Parsed.org. It is a code geek snippet repository that uses OpenID as a method of authentication for it's users. I found Random Rows from SQL interesting since I recently did something very similar.
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