Fubaredness Is Contagious

Starting today, Elastic Server On Demand allows you to select Phusion Passenger (mod_rails for Apache) as a web container for your Rails 2 application. This allows you to deploy a Rails app on Apache, the world’s most popular web server. Check it out at http://es.cohesiveft.com/site/rails2.

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I just spent roughly 2 days trying to figure out why I could not start a rabbitmq broker on a Debian machine. To make a long story short, it was caused by snoopy. Snoopy fubars erlang. Solution is to remove snoopy (dpkg –purge snoopy, if you are on Debian).
Here are some symptoms that you might […]

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Yesterday was 1 year since I started at CohesiveFT. New things this year (in no particular order):

Mac. I got a Macbook Pro as my work laptop. Feels great every time I sit down to work, even though I am not a very demanding desktop user - browser, email, IM, rss reader for non-public feeds, […]

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Google released their App Engine yesterday. Very cool python goodness, supposedly with access to their BigTable and GFS and supposedly free for use up to a certain limit.
In the meantime, Google engineers (or was it designers?) came up with a new type of aircraft. You probably have heard about flying wings, but it looks […]

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What is the most important phase of a software development project? Some people might say planning, others might think it’s QA. Probably nobody will say actually doing it (aka development), as that would be too boring.
I think all these answers are wrong. In my opinion, the most important phase of a software development project is… […]

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http://damienkatz.net/2008/04/couchdb_language_change.html
Or is it not a joke?…

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