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Re: How to relaunch your Zombie blog

Nicholas Redd — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 07:26:51 -0000

I'll tell you one thing, that zombie picture is INTENSE!

Re: Shop2 at Angelpad Demo day

Soso Sazesh — Tue, 04 Dec 2012 23:05:51 -0000

Awesome write up Taylor!

Re: Setup Xapian and Ruby binding on Ubuntu server

high performance servers — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 22:34:58 -0000

I will use this guide to setup Ruby minus Xapian. Ruby alone and its port listings will be sufficient.

Re: Ruby 1.9 encoding gotcha, Retreat to ASCII-8BIT | Taylor.luk @ idn

Panagiotis Atmatzidis — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 17:58:07 -0000

You saved me :-) thanks for porting to Ruby1.9!

Re: Hey, PAC man. Sup, subdomains ! | Taylor.luk @ idn

Taylor Luk — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 19:55:00 -0000

Hello daniel, There are definitely many new changes in subdomain best practices and thanks for posting those fresh links.

The 127.0.0.1 DNS entry is just awesome :)

Re: Hey, PAC man. Sup, subdomains ! | Taylor.luk @ idn

Daniel Kehoe — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 17:14:10 -0000

It's easier to use a redirection service like smackaho.st or lvh.me than a PAC file because you don't have to add a file or configure anything. See http://tbaggery.com/2010/03/04/smack-a-ho-st.html.

Also in Rails 3 it's much easier to implement subdomains than in Rails 2 (no subdomain-fu plugin required). For anyone looking for a complete example implementation of Rails 3 subdomains with authentication (and a detailed tutorial) here's my repo on Github:
http://github.com/fortuity/rails3-subdomain-devise

Ryan Bates has a Railscast on Subdomains in Rails 3: http://railscasts.com/episodes/221-subdomains-in-rails-3

Re: Ruby 1.9 encoding gotcha, Retreat to ASCII-8BIT | Taylor.luk @ idn

bennyfreshness — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 03:48:20 -0000

so I'm pulling in feeds as well (feedzirra), and I'm getting incompatible character encodings: ASCII-8BIT and UTF-8 when displaying the data, how can I use your library to detect/convert it?

Re: Setup Xapian and Ruby binding on Ubuntu server | Taylor.luk @ idn

Albert — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 12:39:54 -0000

Thanks for sharing your notes. Quite helpful! I noticed a typo in the shell for customizing the ruby interpreter:

"isntall" should be "install"

Regards, Albert

Re: Setup Xapian and Ruby binding on Ubuntu server | Taylor.luk @ idn

mbaculio — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 11:03:35 -0000

How much memory is in your VPS? How much of that is for Xapian? I assume the writer takes less memory but the reader(s) take much more.

How was the performance of Xapian?

I'm thinking of using a search engine on a 360MB VPS hosting, so I'm interested to find out about how Xapian behaves in low memory systems.

Re: Hey, PAC man. Sup, subdomains ! | Taylor.luk @ idn

airy — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 11:42:01 -0000

Hey guys,

i found a gem called ghost (http://github.com/bjeanes/g.... it provides easy management for /etc/hosts file for your development environment. unfortunately it's working on just *nix based operating systems such as linux and macos.

i prefer automating domain/subdomain management in my code rather than installing bind.

Re: Hey, PAC man. Sup, subdomains ! | Taylor.luk @ idn

Henning — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 07:45:31 -0000

Well, after searching more information on this, I answered my own question, just put the CNAME on www.domain.com and use a redirect for domain.com to www.domain.com :)

Re: Setup Xapian and Ruby binding on Ubuntu server | Taylor.luk @ idn

Olly Betts — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 08:12:32 -0000

> Latest ubuntu package for Xapian i can find is 1.0.4

Backports of the latest Xapian packages can be found here (linked to from the Xapian download page):

https://launchpad.net/~xapi...

Re: Hey, PAC man. Sup, subdomains ! | Taylor.luk @ idn

Henning — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 17:51:15 -0000

We are running a similar setup with customer accounts identified by subdomains. Currently all our customers use an A record to point their real domain to a subdomain on our domain, but this makes it difficult if we have to change the IP address of our server, so doing it with a CNAME sounds interesting.

RFC 1912 section 2.3 states, though, that "A CNAME record is not allowed to coexist with any other data. In other words, if suzy.podunk.xx is an alias for sue.podunk.xx, you can't also have an MX record for suzy.podunk.edu, or an A record, or even a TXT record."

I am no DNS expert, but doesn't that mean that our customers would not be able to use mail with another provider on their domains?

Re: Ruby 1.9 and Passenger | Taylor.luk @ idn

Jess — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 18:22:33 -0000

Thanks for documenting this, it was a great help!

Re: Ruby 1.9 and Passenger | Taylor.luk @ idn

Taylor Luk — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 10:21:15 -0000

This is a speed run setup for Latest Ruby 1.9.1 with MySQL binding on ubuntu 8.0.4, I have corrected typo in the mysql setup instructure.

I may do another guide for a full ruby stack on ubuntu 9.04 server on Amazone EC2, stay tuned

Re: Hey, PAC man. Sup, subdomains ! | Taylor.luk @ idn

Evgeniy Dolzhenko — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 02:10:09 -0000

I'm running BIND on my local dev machine under Windows with wildcard domain, took about an hour to install considering I've never been into system administration thing most of that time was spent on figuring out proper configuration.

So I guess YMMV :)

Re: Ruby 1.9 and Passenger | Taylor.luk @ idn

Ash — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 02:07:15 -0000

Thanks again :)

Re: Ruby 1.9 encoding gotcha, Retreat to ASCII-8BIT | Taylor.luk @ idn

Gregory Brown — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 22:18:16 -0000

To be clear, it's not that ASCII-8BIT is merely a 'non-standard encoding', it actually means "unencoded bytes", which is why it's aliased to BINARY.

Neat article, thanks for writing it up.

Re: Ruby 1.9 encoding gotcha, Retreat to ASCII-8BIT | Taylor.luk @ idn

Taylor Luk — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 07:35:27 -0000

Big thanks to stephen.boisvert who proofread my grammar in this article.

Re: Hey, PAC man. Sup, subdomains ! | Taylor.luk @ idn

Tom Ward — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 06:28:34 -0000

That .proxy.pac trick is awesome. Thanks for sharing.

Re: Fulltext search your CouchDB in Ruby | Taylor.luk @ idn

Ric Roberts — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 08:35:14 -0000

Thanks for this. I think I might give this a try myself.

Re: They say the first post is the hardest | Taylor.luk @ idn

Taylor Luk — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 12:18:25 -0000

Thanks daniel, I am always a big fan of your cakebaker :)

Re: They say the first post is the hardest | Taylor.luk @ idn

Daniel Hofstetter — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 11:46:40 -0000

Nice to see you started your own blog (just seen it on twitter). Looking forward to your future articles :)

Re: Fulltext search your CouchDB in Ruby | Taylor.luk @ idn

Taylor Luk — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 05:19:11 -0000

Xapit has know issue on relying restart to refresh search index that is read by the rails process, In my github branch auto refresh search index is been updated.

Re: Taylor luk's website

Taylor Luk — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 22:17:50 -0000

Testing comment posting