I decided to give the so called “Flash Killer” Silverlight a whirl and see what all the so called “hype” is about. As a huge fan of halo, I ended up attempting to view the Halo 3 videos on the showcase page. Only one problem: The video itself asked me for my birthdate (I assume… Read more »
Posts By: Jason Gill
Apache logs showing the word 'combined' rather than the combined logs
I was reviewing some logs today and noticed that the word ‘combined’ was showing up as every line of the log file, rather than the actual combined log data. It turns out I had accidentally commented out the line that defines what combined means: #LogFormat “%h %l %u %t “%r” %>s %b “%{Referer}i” “%{User-Agent}i”” combined
Windows Mobile file Explorer hijacked
My company has been promising me a web enabled Palm Treo for some time now, and finally that happened last Friday. I got a Palm Treo 700wx with Windows Mobile. I’ve been spending a lot of time getting it up and running, installing apps and synchronizing all of my stuff. The stuff of which I… Read more »
WestHost on Rails 2007 (for cheapskates)
By Aaron Gustafson. Updated by Jason Gill While it is true that WestHost now offers Ruby on Rails, it’s only available on some of the packages and not all. If you are a cheapskate like me and want to add Ruby on Rails to the Personal Starter plan where RoR isn’t available, this tutorial is… Read more »
Access frequently used stuff without minimizing
Ever grow tired of minimizing whatever you are working on in order to get to a frequently used directory or file? I recently submitted this screencast as a contest entry on lifehacker as a way to solve this annoyance. Which, by the way, won me a signed copy of Lifehacker the book.