12.29.06

Posted in Money at 9:26 pm by jasonb

Excellent news today from the FCC. From the AP:

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12.22.06

Posted in Rails at 11:48 pm by jasonb

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 RAILS_ROOT/tools.

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12.21.06

Posted in Teh LAN at 11:48 pm by jasonb

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 may have been easier.

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12.16.06

Posted in JavaScript at 1:22 am by jasonb

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 class, the issue is one of the DOM not necessarily being ready.

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12.15.06

Posted in Rails at 12:03 am by jasonb

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.

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