So been using Sphinx with the UltraSphinx plugin and I came across the requirement to use filters to reject records. Unfortunately in the plugin the filters are hardwired to submit the ‘exclude’ parameter as ‘false’ i.e include. Time for a quick hack I think……. Very easy to fix, just open up the ‘internals.rb’ file in [...]
I’ve been using the Hop Toad web app for a while now to collect errors from my Rails apps and its been working out great. It drops in very simply and replaces the Exception Notifier plugin I was using. Big advantages are the archive of errors and the ability to mark them as dealt with. [...]
So, I got a great email about an hour ago: To the creative genius[es] behind TweetLists, We’d like to congratulate you on being selected as our MASHUP OF THE DAY at MashupAwards.com for July 30, 2008. So, not all that familiar with The Mashup Awards, but others clearly are as the resulting traffic killed the [...]
So I needed to parse the log files for SlimTimer this weekend to correct a data loss issue due to a small issue with implementing https for subscribers. The issue required looking for requests that had returned something other than “200 OK” collecting the parameters and entering any data that had got lost. After a [...]
So just got back from a great 2 weeks in California, went to Foo camp, Social Media Camp, Mashable and a couple of other meetups – all excellent. One slight hiccup with the hire car…….. I claim it was the taxi’s fault (of course), although its a bit of a blur to be honest. On [...]
So, couple of pretty funny links creeping up the popular chart over at TweetLists 1) Yahoo Resigner (by Mat Honan) 2) Instant Rim Shot (by Scott Carver)
One of the top links that came from Tweetlists over the past couple of weeks is Goosh, an online google shell. Its great, well worth checking out. I really like the “translate” mode.
Thanks to George Chatzigeorgiou there is now a version of the FCKeditor plugin that works with Rails 2.1. I have put the packages on Ruby Forge and updated the repository. If you are interested as to what the issue was check out George’s comments on the previous post.
