Author Archives: Muriel Salvan

About Muriel Salvan

I am a freelance project manager and polyglot developer, expert in Ruby and Rails. I created X-Aeon Solutions and rivierarb Ruby meetups. I also give trainings and conferences on technical topics. My core development principles: Plugins-oriented architectures, simple components, Open Source power, clever automation, constant technology watch, quality and optimized code. My experience includes big and small companies. I embrace agile methodologies and test driven development, without giving up on planning and risks containment methods as well. I love Open Source and became a big advocate.

Failure at piloting external processes stdin and stdout using Ruby on Windows

Posted on December 15, 2011 by Muriel Salvan 1 Comment

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 projects are Windows (XP and … Continue reading →

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How to access a GIT repository over authenticated HTTP

Posted on November 18, 2011 by Muriel Salvan Leave a comment

Hi My second headache for today was brought by GIT. I have a simple Apache server providing a restricted access (basic HTTP authentication) on a GIT repository. From my local terminal, I just wanted to access the repository using: git … Continue reading →

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How to make RewriteCond work with sub-directories needing HTTP authentication

Posted on November 18, 2011 by Muriel Salvan 1 Comment

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 rewrite rule routing every incoming … Continue reading →

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How to install reCaptcha on your MediaWiki

Posted on October 20, 2011 by Muriel Salvan Leave a comment

Lately I just ran into heavy spamming among all my MediaWiki’s wikis. It first began with plain anonymous spamming (I wanted to leave anonymous editing available), then I forced account creation, then spammers were automating new account registrations before updating … Continue reading →

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No more STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION on Cygwin under Windows7

Posted on August 5, 2011 by Muriel Salvan 12 Comments

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: When googling, some people seem … Continue reading →

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How to make a customized Ruby on Rails server work on a hosted shared environment ?

Posted on July 28, 2011 by Muriel Salvan Leave a comment

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 help you there. Regarding their … Continue reading →

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How to make Apache route all requests except some directories ?

Posted on July 27, 2011 by Muriel Salvan Leave a comment

Hi Some context might help: You have an Apache running environment, on which you are not root (therefore no access to the global Apache config). Typically the kind of hosted shared environment. You have full control on the files stored … Continue reading →

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Test Title: The Big Jump

Posted on April 18, 2011 by Muriel Salvan 1 Comment

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 and giving some details about … Continue reading →

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