My basic management concept for iptables (easy to maintain when you’re the owner and administrator of a server). I don’t like native iptables management way, so with little help from Google I’ve...

docs.seattlerb.org/net-http-persistent github.com/drbrain/net-http-persistent Manages persistent connections using Net::HTTP plus a speed fix for Ruby 1.8. It’s thread-safe too! Using persisten...

Like I promised in my previous post, I wanted to do a little something on D3.js. We are going to take one of their example visualizations and visualize a follows graph. To create our graph, we will ta...

It's the latest Web-based syndication of Ruby Weekly, the weekly Ruby and Rails e-mail newsletter (which just tipped 11K subscribers). Ruby Weekly now has a 'tips' page where you can submit links for ...

TL;DR: ActiveRecord is more than just an ORM. It also provides a convenient common interface for writing direct SQL queries, for those times when you need to access your database’s advanced features...

RoR, Rails or Ruby on Rails are interchangeable terms but it only means one thing. For the Ruby programming language, it is an open source web application framework. It was David Hansson that derived ...

Building off my previous ~/.pryrc I wanted to automatically load up my core project Ruby file, spec_helper.rb, and fire off some initialization routines whenever I start a new Pry session in my projec...

Programming for the Web with Ruby Registrations are now open for RubyLearning’s FREE, online course on “Programming for the Web with Ruby“. Web-based applications offer numerous advantages, such...

A prologue Today, I use Sublime Text 2 for just about all my text editing needs. It is fast and fairly stable. It is customizable and it can use plugins from Textmate. It also allows me to have split ...

So many of us use vimrc files that are a frankenstein’s monster, cobbled together from spare parts, gists, and snippets from wikipedias. One day I decided I was no longer going to treat my vimrc as ...

Kimble aka Kim Dotcom, aka Kim Schmitz, and Kim Tim Jim Vestor ist wieder zuhause. Das FBI hat Megaupload abgeschaltet und Kimble in Neuseeland verhaften lassen.(FBI-Statement) Da haben wohl die SOPA-...

stores your passwords in a file on your disk encrypts the file with a master password is designed for every-day-use is written in 234 lines of understandable Ruby code… Read it! is tested...

The Amish The Amish are a people who, besides their basic and very traditional way of life, have a firm grasp on the principles of simplicity. They do not have cell phones, computers, television or in...

In my previous post I covered building a simple C extension written in Ruby. There are times however that you may need to call functions defined in an existing native library. Fortunately there is a t...

Just got back from Fudcon Blacksburg. As always, it was a great time. Arrived after driving down (10 hrs) Thursday evening and crashed quickly after checking into my accommodations (The Inn at Virgini...

I needed to added my public key to a couple of servers the same day. After having done it twice, I thought of writing a bash script to pull my key from a public url at dropbox and append it to the aut...

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It's fairly old, but this is still a good basic reference to SEO and link-building Just be aware that IPL2 is no longer accepting link submissions. You have to register as an editor for joeant to be ...