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RubyPython on 64-bit RHEL5/CentOS

By Déja On October 21, 2011 ·

Update 10/23/2011

Via Austin Ziegler (@halostatue):

“The rubypython issue mentioned in your post should be fixed as of 0.5.3, released last night”

RubyPython 0.5.3 is now available via ‘gem install rubypython’ and is working beautifully.

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With the release of GitLabHQ (see my previous post), I’ve been [...]

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Setting up GitLabHQ on RHEL5

By Déja On October 20, 2011 ·

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On October 13th, GitLabHQ launched.

As anyone who has spent much time with RHEL5 knows, they have a decided emphasis on stability and rarely are the latest and greatest versions of software [...]

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HTML5 Boilerplate

By Déja On October 17, 2011 ·

This one is short and sweet. HTML5 Boilerplate is a fantastic starter kit for getting an HTML5 site up and running with all the current best practices, tweaks, and browser fixes (I’m lookin at you IE).

Rather than spend an hour going over all the things that make H5BP great, let me just send you [...]

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Drupal 7 Custom 404 Page Template

By Déja On July 12, 2011 ·

Today’s tip is super short and super sweet, and while it focuses on a custom 404 (page not found) template, the theme_hook_suggestions technique can be used to serve up any type of custom template file scheme you’d like to implement. Using it within the hook_preprocess_node() template hook, you can serve up node templates based on content [...]

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Leveraging git as a full-fledged web deployment tool

By Déja On May 18, 2011 ·

I just wanted to quickly share a trick that has allowed us to use Git as our de-facto version control system for website development and deployment. With the setup outlined below, we automatically update different web roots by pushing to a different git branch within a repository.

As with many things git, it all starts [...]

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DrupalCon 2011 Session

By Déja On May 17, 2011 ·

I’ve submitted a presentation proposal for DrupalCon in London this August to discuss the practical application of Drupal in an institution of higher learning.

Recently hired at Bentley University, I arrived at an inflection point. Much had been done to migrate large amounts of content from the old coldfusion-powered Collage (and no, I’m not misspelling [...]

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Why I Use Git (and a bit about version control)

By Déja On March 17, 2011 ·

To understand why I use Git (http://www.git-scm.com/) for all my version control needs, you first need to understand a bit about version control systems. If you know all this already and want to get to the git, simply skip to the good stuff.

A little about version control…

It is impossible for more than [...]

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Six Tricks for Developing a Web/Hybrid App on iOS

By Déja On February 24, 2011 ·

One of the compelling reasons to developing web-based or hybrid mobile applications is being able to use the tried and true HTML/CSS/JS stack, which allows your app to be used (with some minor restrictions) directly as a mobile website or to be compiled and distributed as a native application using a tool such as PhoneGap.

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Reckless Reporting: Too Quick to Point the Finger

By Déja On November 3, 2010 ·

On November 2nd, 2010 at 5:26pm EDT, Politico’s Tony Romm posted a rather scathing article. The article focuses on the claim that Google’s Election Center, which is a service intended to match a voter’s address with the location of their ballot box, had potentially misdirected “more than 700,000 households” in twelve battleground states.

Worth [...]

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The Butterfly Effect

By Déja On September 17, 2010 ·

The Butterfly Effect is a term from chaos theory that is designed to illustrate how one tiny change can have enormous consequences to the overall system down the line.

If we abstract butterfly to bug, it actually fits quite nicely within the realm of software development.

Today, I ran into a doozy of an [...]

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