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Re: "Object is not missing <ClassName>!" + Amazon::S3

ches — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 05:06:07 -0000

Thank you, had a similar problem in switching between big hairy environment configs (plus an Engine in the mix) with a stack trace that was none too illuminating... Would've taken a lot longer to root it out without finding your post. You gotta love that error message...

Re: Someone recently asked us to do “vim on Rails”... - GIANT ROBOTS SMASHING INTO OTHER GIANT ROBOTS

ches — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 03:56:06 -0000

Since this is a brief introduction mostly to rails.vim functionality and less to vim itself, it's probably worth noting to anyone thinking of giving the editor a try: you will probably try modal editing a few times -- maybe even forcing yourself to use it for a few days on end -- absolutely despise it, and wonder how anyone has tolerated it long enough for this thing to last so many years :-)

Then, at some point in the future (third time was a charm for me), you'll give it one more go and suddenly it all just clicks. You realize how you just whisked all around a file in a few keystrokes, or create your first 5-second macro that saves you 10 minutes of tedium, or you discover an awesome use of the dot command and gleefully press that sucker over and over. At the end of the day, you've experienced some kind of spiritual passage, your fingers rejoice, and you don't look back.

Re: Battoning Down the Hatches.

ches — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 15:47:20 -0000

Just surfing across a bit of an old post here, but I heartily recommend DenyHosts if you or other readers are looking for additional aid in thwarting these SSH dictionary attacks (which are a constant for anyone with an always-on connection these days...):

http://denyhosts.sourceforge.net/

I've used DenyHosts on linux systems in the past and had little trouble getting it running on OS X Leopard by following the documentation and setting up a launchd task. It currently has a blacklist of 200+ IPs, and those auto-expire occasionally :-)

Re: Beyond TweetBacks: Introducing TweetSuite

ches — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 18:55:39 -0000

It would sure be lovely if there was a *single* explanatory comment in the code...

Re: Launching a new miniapp: Intersquash.com

ches — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 18:18:49 -0000

Hi Jon,

Thanks for the work on a cool little service. Are people having success with it so far? I haven't seen much commentary on sites that have reported it. I've tried it on a site and the resulting iPhone page isn't quite working, and taking a look at the markup when viewing source, it looks like it's generating anchor links but no anchors for the links to land on for the articles:

http://intersquash.com/feed/8ef2a90c

Looks like the feed has a few validation issues that might throw off parsing, but is there any other known issue at work here?

Thanks! Sorry to make this a tech support thread :-)