I have always tried to be a polyglot programmer, and also poly-platform one. I have always cherished the idea my softwares could run on any OS. My main development environments for most of my Ruby… Failure at piloting external processes stdin and stdout using Ruby on Windows
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I almost spent 10 minutes trying to figure out a title for this post, as the problem I stumbled upon today is not easy to describe 😉 In a basic Apache environment, I have a… How to make RewriteCond work with sub-directories needing HTTP authentication
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I recently reinstalled Cygwin 1.7.9-1 on a Windows7 Ultimate edition (64bits), and like many many people, I ran into the problems of randomly thrown exceptions by xterm and alike processes. For example when starting xterm:… No more STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION on Cygwin under Windows7
Hi Some of my servers are hosted on Planethoster (shared environment). So far it has been a nice experience, except that their customer support’s technical competencies can vary a lot depending on who gets to… How to make a customized Ruby on Rails server work on a hosted shared environment ?
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So here it is: my first post on this blog. Usually it comes down to “Test Title” and “Test Content“. I will try to make it more interesting by introducing the purpose of this blog… Test Title: The Big Jump