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August 2008

HowTo: Phusion Passenger aka mod_rails for Apache

August 8th, 2008Posted by benediktFiled in Articles, Linux, Ruby, Ruby on Rails

Yesterday I decided to give Phusion Passenger aka mod_rails a try and installed it. It was dead simple to set it up and to deploy rails applications with it. I’m now using it for several “small” applications, for which the whole overhead of setting up a cluster of mongrels and...



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April 2008

Using RSpactor with Linux

April 10th, 2008Posted by benediktFiled in Agile Development, Articles, Linux, Ruby, Ruby on Rails

Andreas Wolff recently released RSpactor, a (up to now) command line tool similar to autotest. Nevertheless it differs from autotest in two points. First it’s focused on RSpec and secondly it’s using Mac OS’ FSEvents to monitor file changes. According to this it only runs on Mac OS. To get...



March 2008

Easy SSH authentication with keychain

March 29th, 2008Posted by benediktFiled in Articles, Linux

Typing SSH passwords again and again can be a real pain. For example: Lately I started to use Capistrano to deploy my rails applications. If I want to set up the maintenance-page on the server I’ll type cap deploy:web:disable which of course prompts me for the SSH password. Then I...



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October 2007

Knife, fork and spoon

October 8th, 2007Posted by benediktFiled in Linux, Other

Note the fork! Recognizing someone?



September 2007

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July 2007

New KDE Theme

July 11th, 2007Posted by benediktFiled in Linux



June 2007

30th ... err ... 24th of may

June 2nd, 2007Posted by benediktFiled in Linux

It was planned to be the 30th, but in the end everything was a week earlier. The great rush of many fans to nightwish.com in order to see the band’s new voice. It all started on 23th with the leaking of Nightwish’s new single “Eva” on some online music stores....



May 2007

HowTo: Setting up Lighttpd + fastcgi

May 22nd, 2007Posted by benediktFiled in Articles, Linux

This short tutorial is going to show how to set up Lighttpd with fastcgi on Debian 4.0 (Etch). Actually it’s nothing special but I hope it demonstrates how easy it is. ;-) What is Lighttpd? Lighttpd is a light (I bet you already guessed that … ;)), fast and secure...

Nightwish nightmares ...

May 15th, 2007Posted by benediktFiled in Linux

Somehow a funny story … but actually: not at all. I was sitting in car and traveling to the train station when I received the first SMS. The Nightwish.com server is getting slow. As we posted the studio dairy of Nightwish’s new vocalist on Sunday, I wasn’t much surprised and...

Upgraded nightwish.com to Debian Etch

May 4th, 2007Posted by benediktFiled in Linux

I just finished upgrading nightwish.com to Debian 4.0 Etch. Took me some time, but worked without any notable problems. (Thanks to the excellent documentation) This was just another step in embattling the server for the 30th of this month. We’re expecting a lot of fans overrunning the website, as the...