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JRuby Debugging with IntelliJ IDEA 8

Shane — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 22:53:30 +0000

For the last couple of years I’ve dabbled with Ruby and JRuby coming from a Java background. Until recently, the only IDE that has had a decent JRuby debugger was NetBeans. Now, with the release of IDEA 8, debugging JRuby is now available in my favorite IDE. Here are the steps required to debug your [...]

Restricting Access to Tomcat via IP Address or Hostname

Shane — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 23:05:28 +0000

To restrict access to a standalone Tomcat instance by IP address: <Valve className="org.apache.catalina.valves.RemoteAddrValve" allow="127.0.0.1"/> The above will restrict access to the surrounding Engine, Host, or Context element in /conf/server.xml. You may also specify a comma separated list of ip addresses instead of a single address. If you want to deny access to one or more IP addresses, you [...]

Excellent Interview: Jason Fried of 37Signals

Shane — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 16:15:25 +0000

Timothy O’Brien of O’Reilly sat down with Jason Fried, a “managing member” of 37Signals and asked a lot of great questions about the philosophy of running a small tech company. Much of what Jason says sounds like common sense and provides great insight and clarity that I think is generally missing from a lot of [...]

iPhone Development with Ruby

Shane — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 15:05:14 +0000

I’m a Java and Ruby developer and I’m interested in starting development on an idea I have which would work great as an iPhone application. Naturally, instead of learning Objective-C I started doing some research on finding out if it’s possible to use another language for iPhone development. Here are some things I found along [...]

XCode: can’t exec ‘/Developer/Library/Xcode/Plug-ins/CoreBuildTasks.xcplugin/Contents/Resources/copystrings’ (No such file or directory)

Shane — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 11:48:59 +0000

While trying for the first time to build a very simple Cocoa project using XCode 3.1, I ran into the following error: can't exec '/Developer/Library/Xcode/Plug-ins/CoreBuildTasks.xcplugin/Contents/Resources/copystrings' (No such file or directory) At first glance, the error message suggests that the copystrings file is missing or has incorrect permissions. Although once I verified the file was present on my [...]

Ruby 2.0 Plug-in Available for JetBrains IDEA IDE

Shane — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 21:04:43 +0000

As of earlier today, JetBrains made version 2.0 of the Ruby plug-in available for IntelliJ IDEA, a popular Java IDE. For those like myself that dabble in Java and Ruby this is a welcomed event. The following links provide more detail about new features: Ruby Plugin 2.0 Release Notes Development Roadmap Note that the plug-in is only compatible [...]

Top 5 Advantages of Driving Slower

Shane — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 19:14:26 +0000

Although the price of fuel has gone back down in the United States after peaking earlier this summer, the momentum behind striving for better fuel efficiency continues to grow. No doubt, a lot of the renewed interest in fuel efficiency as well as alternative energy sources like biofuel, wind power and solar energy, also relate [...]

Google Chrome: Another Browser Added to the Mix

Shane — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 00:50:45 +0000

Earlier today it was leaked and later confirmed that Google is releasing it’s own browser called Google Chrome. The news has spread like a wild fire today and the source of most of the initial information has been gathered from a comic strip book which details some of the inner workings of the open source [...]

Open Source Project Hosting and Management

Shane — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 00:07:33 +0000

Some suggestions for open source hosting and project management sites and software: CodePlex (Microsoft) Freshmeat.net GForge GitHub Gitorious Google Code Launchpad Mozdev.org RubyForge Sourceforge Unfuddle

Amazon EC2 vs SoftLayer vs Slicehost

Shane — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 12:01:32 +0000

A while back I did a bit of research on how much it would cost to run a modest application on each of the following services: Amazon EC2 - elastic compute cloud, provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud. SoftLayer.com - cheaper alternative to Rackspace.com, various configurations of dedicated machines available. Slicehost.com - “Built for developers”, VPS via [...]

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