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Monthly Archives: March 2007

Using Performancing to post to a Subtext Powered-Blog

Here is how you can use the Performancing plugin for Firefox to post a subtext powered blog.
1) Download performancing here.
2) Assuming you have your Subtext-powered blog up and running, start Performancing by clicking on the icon in your Firefox browser status bar.
3) Click the “Add” button in the Blog tab of performancing.
4) Click “Manually Configure”
5) [...]

Official Google Enterprise Blog: Educarchile turns on Google Apps for Education for Chile

Ltech was mentioned in the Google Enterprise Blog for our work on a major Apps integration we just completed.
Official Google Enterprise Blog: Educarchile turns on Google Apps for Education for Chile
I believe that integrations like this prove that Google Apps is a serious competitor to other enterprise collaboration platforms like Exchange and Notes. Educarchile [...]

A Series of Unforunate log4net events: logging hostname in log4net with AdoNetAppender

This post needs to be reformatted. Blogger munged my code when I pasted it in. If anyone knows how to fix it, please let me know.I have a love hate relationship with log4net. Amazingly powerful and simple logging. Frustratingly sparse documentation if you do anything outside of the norm.
Anyway, we need to log the hostname [...]

RubyQuest 2007: howto build a wiki in 20 minutes - it really worked

This tutorial was great. I learned pretty much all the basics. I would have been nice to learn more about why things are structured in certain ways in Ruby, but I solved the major test case for myself - build a postgresql ruby on rails app.Thanks to whomever wrote it.Technorati Tags: ruby

RubyQuest 2007: Driving myself crazy so you don’t have to. Tutorial #1 Running Ruby and postgreSQL on Windows

Ok folks, this drove me absolutely insane for a few days until I figured it out.I want to learn Ruby. You can read my previous posts to see why. I want to use postgreSQL, not mySql. I want to do it on Windows and then eventually deploy on Linux.So - I made it pretty far [...]

Ok, I setup Ubuntu Server, now what? Install Ruby and PostgresSQL

At this point I think it will serve me best to describe what I actually hope to accomplish with this Linux test I am running. I could happily stay in the la-la land of Windows and .NET development. So what do I hope to achieve?Technically:

Get a Linux server running with Ruby on Rails and [...]

Installing Ubuntu on VMware Player

I had to dig the depths of the internet to find this great tutorial: http://homepage.sunrise.ch/mysunrise/ekeller00/ubuntu/2a_UbuntuInWindows_VMware_e.htmlThanks, Eric Keller.Now I will blog about my Ubuntu experience once I can get it installed on VMware. I was able to install it straight-up on my old Thinkpad A20p, but I realized that I didn’t want to carry around a [...]

Scaling high-performance websites. How do YOU do it?

Great article on how MySpace managed their growth and scaling issues: http://www.baselinemag.com/print_article2/0,1217,a=198614,00.aspI am trying to manage a similar scale-up, not quite at the scale as MySpace, but with its own unique challenges. So far I’ve found the resources on the web for serious web high-performance architecture are lacking, but I often find gems like the [...]