Other · Calvin Correli · Nov 6, 2005
IE down to 51%
After moving all the photos from my old photo gallery over to 23, I decided to also get rid of the old stats for that part of my site in Mint, and I w…
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Other · Calvin Correli · Nov 6, 2005
Installing PHP on Debian
I always find it confusing to install PHP for CGI with MySQL support on Debian. I tried with apt first, then with the unofficial packages from dotdeb,…
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Other · Calvin Correli · Nov 6, 2005
MarsEdit does let you bring your own CSS

I just found out that you can bring your own stylesheet to MarsEdit. Right-click the weblog in the drawer, and select “Edit preview template”. Here yo…

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Other · Calvin Correli · Nov 6, 2005
Pinds.com now on Rails

Finally, more than a year since I decided to drop OpenACS and pick up Rails, I have gotten my own site running on Rails. It’s just an almost-vanilla i…

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Other · Calvin Correli · Nov 5, 2005
Deleting photos in iPhoto
When your camera takes pictures that weigh in at over 3MB each, the decision of which photos to delete is as important as any. That’s why I’m dumbfoun…
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Other · Calvin Correli · Nov 5, 2005
[Rails] How to do a 301 redirect

I had to dig a little for this. The answer is simply:

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headers["Status"] = "301 Moved Permanently"
redirect_to "/"

Here is the relevant…

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Other · Calvin Correli · Nov 4, 2005
OpenACS to Typo

I’m fiddling with an OpenACS lars-blogger to Typo converter, because I need to have my blog running Typo by Monday.

Has anyone done this already?

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Other · Calvin Correli · Nov 4, 2005
Dashboard widget for Rails API

It wasn’t until today that I realized you can point the RDoc Dashboard Widget straight to the Rails API doc. Now i have two RDoc widgets on my dashboa…

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Other · Calvin Correli · Nov 4, 2005
Why take VC money?

Paul Graham: “Most of what the VCs add, acquirers don’t want anyway.” Exactly!

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