Tim’s Blog
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TV
Tired of lazy service from your cable company? I was. No NFL Network, no Big Ten Network, and poor boxes and software. I switched to U-Verse (AT&T) and really like it. Pricing is in the range of cable with 3 boxes in the house ($5 per add). The internet speeds are good, you can remotely…
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Email Blogging
WordPress supports posting via email. Combine with an iPhone and mobile blogging would be pretty easy.
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Pagination
The paginate function was removed from core rails in 2.0. No problem since my server ran an earlier version of rails. Until Bluehost updated rails without telling me. Easy enough to fix. In your project type: script/plugin install svn://errtheblog.com/svn/plugins/classic_pagination Then tar up your vendor folder and move it to the server, or use a better…
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Getting Rails Up on OS X
If you’re having problems with the standard OS X install of ruby, check out http://hivelogic.com/articles/ruby-rails-mongrel-mysql-osx/.
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SVN Repository fix
I was fixing several subversion repositories. I didn’t have the standard branches, tags, trunk structure set up. Here’s a script to help with that. Use it like… sh ~/.svn-fix.sh https://mysvnserver.net/svn/hello-project trunk #!/bin/bash $repo=”$1″ $dest=”$2″ entries=`svn list $repo | grep -v $dest` svn mkdir $repo/$dest for d in $entries do svn move $repo/$d $repo/$dest/ -m “moved…
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