Category Archives: Software
jactiveresource launched
ActiveResource is one of the cooler parts of Ruby on Rails. It uses the dynamic goodness of ruby to consume RESTful resources without having to hardly write any code. How about this for a stupid-easy class: class Person < ActiveResource::Base … Continue reading
The perfect template engine
There are a ton of template engines out there, for every different language and platform you can imagine. Some people claim PHP is just a fancy template engine. Others say printf is the first and only real template engine. There … Continue reading
Installing Kubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) on an ThinkPad X61 Tablet
This weekend I installed Gutsy, now officially known as Kubuntu 7.10 on my X61. I decided I’d try and write up a guide on thinkwiki.org. Because I don’t have an optical drive for my laptop, installation was a bit tricky, … Continue reading
DHCP Failover on OpenBSD
I have been running a DHCP server on my home network for eons now, and today I decided I’d move it on to my OpenBSD firewall cluster. It probably really shouldn’t be there but I already run a handful of … Continue reading
Running xntpd on my OpenBSD firewall cluster
Now that my firewall cluster is working better, I can add some additional critical services to it. For a long time I have run a time server on a machine on my network so we can have consistant accurate time. … Continue reading