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Migrating from Octopress to Ghost

in one word, straightforward. I used this NPM package: OGhost The only hiccup, was the out of memory error that caused the import to fail. My Node.Js app was running with 128MB. I've increase memory allocation on Bluemix to 256MB, and the import went smoothly. I found it funny

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How to install Ghost.js on IBM Bluemix

Step 1 out of 1: Follow instructions on this blog (https://developer.ibm.com/bluemix/2014/03/17/deploying-ghost-js-ibm-bluemix/) Remarks I found it easier to install Cloud Foundry CLI to install the app and the services. However I wasn't able to install the Cloudant service from CLI. The docs on

Getting RubyMotion working on a fresh install of Mac OS X Lion

On Wednesday, I wanted to start hacking with RubyMotion. Because I was about to leave for a trip to HK, I didn't try it on my Mountain Lion (10.8) running iMac and instead resurrected an old Snow Leopard (10.6) running Macbook. A quick read through RubyMotion's getting started

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Installing Puppet on Mac OS X

Puppet Puppet is an open source (with enterprise version and support available) client/server tool from Puppet Labs to facilitate the configuration and management of computer systems. Written in ruby and available on many platforms, it offers a DSL that allows the "programming" of operational tasks across many

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Introduction to Event-Driven Programming and the Reactor Design Pattern

I gave this 5mn lightning talk to my team: Presentation on Scribd I will post more on the subject in the future: One of my personal project involves PubSubHubbub and EventMachine and I'm becoming curious|excited about Javascript's Node.JS.

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Networking in Debian 4.0 (Etch) VMWare images

Recently I've come across a couple of vmware images of Debian Linux 4.0 (Etch) where the network didn't work. A call to ifconfig didn't show 'eth0' at all. I've tried to compare the configuration difference between a successully running Debian Linux 5.0 (Lenny) and these Etch image without

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Git

I've been kind of working on a git tutorial for a while now. I've recently realized that there are two different work flows ( git+subversion and github.com) that I use regularly and that trying to describe them both in one tutorial made it quite confusing. I'm going to remake

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Update to the MogileFS setup guide

I've done minor changes to the installaion guide for MogileFS following feedback from Craig. In addition, he noticed that on some Xen VMs, you may encounter the following error: ERROR: Need to be root to increase max connections in which case, you will need to update /etc/security/limits.conf

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Testing flash.now with rspec

I've spent a couple of hour trying to test a Rails controller. More specifically one of the action is suppose to display flash.now notice and I want to test that and it works. It took me awhile and some googling to realise that the content of a flash.now

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Setting up high availability storage with MogileFS

** 1. Environment** I used 4 Xen virtual images running ubuntu 8.04. Two will run a tracker and the database, the other two will be the storage nodes. Lets say the IP addresses will be: 192.168.0.195 192.168.0.196 192.168.0.197 192.168.0.

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Ruby on Rails with_scope and returning

This week in my current project I've come across two ruby constructs that were new to me. with_scope and returning. Found a blog where they are both nicely explained: with_scope returning

Beach close-ups (cc)

[Beach close-ups (cc)](http://www.flickr.com/photos/dunstan/2398525947/) Originally uploaded by [Dunstan Orchard](http://www.flickr.com/people/dunstan/) Flickr has today announced support for video media. I'm impressed on how the integration is done, it's the same experience as for photo plus the added value of what

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Microformats and Safari

Firefox users have been able to use microformats-enabled web sites (like the schedules on Upcoming or BBC Programmes) for a long time thanks to a couple of extensions (Operator and Tails Exports). Now coming alongside the release of Safari 3.1, there's a new Safari plugin that allow the parsing

Your Company’s App

A funny but familiar comic strip :-) Your Company's App: "Company's" (Via Daring Fireball.)

Flowchart: How D&D is a gateway drug to every flavor of nerdiness

Another silly diagramme unearthed by the people at BoingBoing and themed on Dungeons and Dragons whose creator Gary Gygax died recently. When you look at the full version of the diagramme, you'll see a rectangle about "people blogging about diagrams". I am such a nerd! _ Flowchart: How D&

London Transport Museum

I've come back from the open weekend organised by The London Transport Museum Depot in Acton. Part of it consisted in a tour of all the posters, maps and the original artworks they were based upon since 1908. These posters were used mainly as promotional material for London (and therefore

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World Metro Map by Mark Ovenden

World Metro Map by Mark Ovenden Originally uploaded by Annie Mole This is a map I've just found on Flickr even if it's quite old news (sorry). It's the metro map of the world and that's so amazing. I do leave in a city with a dense metro system, and

Proposed solution for Microsoft's browser issues and illustrative pie chart

I've started to miss making blog posts with fancy diagramme, mind-blowing pie charts. The Open letter from Opera's CTO published in The Register has given me the opportunity to drawn this blog under the total wisdom of yet another pie chart as buried in the comments to the article, I

When subversion is not good enough

I hate subversion right now. For reasons outside my control I have to keep development branches open for a long time and therefore I need to sync them regularly with trunk and these merge operations are quite annoying and source of headaches. Additionally, in the recent months I found myself

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Ruby On Rails tips

Recently, I've been working on a Rails project for the first time. It's a nice change after years of perl. There are quite a few little things that I knew how to do in perl, that I didn't have clue on how to do it in Rails. Also I run

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About Yahoo! And Microsoft

I'm quite annoyed at Microsoft's bid to buy Yahoo! I'm a happy user of several Yahoo services but given the services overlap between the two and what Microsoft wants Yahoo! for, I fear for future of the Yahoo services (I'm a paying customer for some of them). I fear because

Namibian ghost-town turning back into sand-dunes

Seen today on Boing Boing, strange and beautiful photos: _ Namibian ghost-town turning back into sand-dunes: "Check out these haunting and beautiful photos and video of the abandoned Namibian town of Kolmanskop, a ghost-town that is turning back into sand-dunes. Kolmanskop is a ghost town in southern Namibia, a few

Photo walking in London

On the 12th of January, I attended a photo walking in central London. I discover the event on Upcoming but most people were Flickr users. The organizer Phill Price has written a wrap-up post on photowalking.org. If you've got Google Earth and want to navigate the photos on the

Futurama Meets The Simpsons (PIC)

As someone who like Futurama and The Simpsons, I found this picture merging both quite funny. Futurama Meets The Simpsons (PIC): "The best of both worlds in one intergalactic catastrophe! Awesome." (Via digg.)

Integrating Perl Tests Report in Cruise Control

Back In May, I've posted a "TAP vs XML" article (triggered by a similarly titled article from Curtis Poe) mainly focused on the challenge of integrating perl testing with Cruise Control. In the meantime, Rufus Cable pointed me to the direction of Matisse Enzer who wrote a tool