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Installing Ruby and RubyGems (including Rails and mySQL) on Mac OS X Snow Leopard

Colin Devroe — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 07:32:35 +0000

In case you’ve been living under a rock (where in the world did that phrase originate?) you probably know about Dan Benjamin‘s extremely simple, yet incredibly useful and valuable, step-by-step tutorial for installing Ruby, RubyGems (including Rails and mySQL) on Mac OS X Snow Leopard.

I recently had the need to upgrade each of these on my Snow Leopard install and it worked perfectly.

The “whack a mole” script

Colin Devroe — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 11:18:57 +0000

Todd Troxell, our “Super System Admin” at Viddler whom we also call The Todd, recently wrote a script for destroying bad queries while we were receiving an incredible amount of bad requests the other day. I called it a whack a mole script and told him he should blog about it… he called it “how to keep an ovrloaded db running”.

Upgraded to WordPress 2.1

Colin Devroe — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 14:08:39 +0000

WordPress 2.1 has been released, and some of the latest features intrigued me (mostly the speed improvements and the fact that one of the official MySQL dudes went through all of the queries), so I’ve upgraded this site to “Ella”.

If you experience any problems, let me know. If you don’t, upgrade your own blog to the latest version because, from what I’m seeing so far, it is definitely a lot faster and cleaner than it was previously.

UPDATE: One of the features that I didn’t see documented elsewhere, but I have found to be a really nice addition, is that now when you post a comment you are automatically redirected back to your comment instead of just the post’s permalink. So, if I’m the third comment on a page – I no longer need to scroll down to make sure my comment was recorded properly – WordPress forwards me right to my comment’s bookmark.

Go ‘head, give it a whirl here on my blog on any post. Pretty cool.

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