tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-89632719775411935032011-11-13T19:21:49.946+05:30ranting and raving and carrying onWaseemhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12641762443366203066noreply@blogger.comBlogger111100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8963271977541193503.post-32049454587806279612010-07-11T10:46:00.003+05:302010-07-11T13:39:47.430+05:30

Facebooker provides a super-simple tunneling script using which you can create a tunnel between a public server and your computer. This script is essentially a Ruby wrapper written around ssh.Recently I migrated my application from facebooker to Koala. In the process I extracted out the tunneling script from facebooker. I also made some changes to it so that it can be used easily. The script is

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Recently I had a chance to create a Facebook Connect Rails application. I did not have any public server on which I could host my application so I chose Heroku. We need to host our application on a public server so that we can listen the response of Facebook when we request its servers.One actually does not need to use heroku or other public server to develop a Facebook application. We can open

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Recently I went to the New Delhi Ruby Meetup. This is a great place to meet some very good Ruby and Rails developers from New Delhi and NCR. If you are interested in Ruby or Rails or any other technology any way related to web development, you should give it a try.In the past meetup we had a short brain storming session on "How to be a good Rails developer?".Apart from making your Ruby

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A special thanks to one of my friends because of whom this was completed on time.Recently I was integrating ActionMailer in a Rails application. I was using Cucumber to test the application. In the test environment the general idea is to ask the ActionMailer not to try to deliver the emails really but assume that those are delivered.When the integration of the ActionMailer was done, I wished to

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XML-Mapping is a great ruby gem. It lets you make ruby objects from XML and vice versa. It is a very useful gem but it seems that it is not maintained from it's project page. The last release was done on December 2005. Looks like it is no longer being maintained by it's author.I am using XML-Mapping and Cucumber to test a rails application which generates XML feeds. Recently I had a need to use '

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I recently bought a Dell Inspiron and installed Ubuntu Jaunty Jackalope on it. I was having a hard time making skype work on this. Every time I started skype, it gave me a "Problem with audio playback" error. I googled a lot and on Ubuntu forums found following solution to this.First go to Skype->Options->Sound Devices and set "Sound In", "Sound Out" and "Ringing" all to pulse. Uncheck the "Allow

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I am going to tell you something very basic here. These basics are really important though.Today when I tried to merge one of my branch say phuddu to my master, I got some weired messages from git....ERROR: Merge conflict in app/models/activity.rbAuto-merging app/models/death_report.rb...fatal: merge program failedAutomatic merge failed; fix conflicts and then commit the result.Looks like I

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An old vim user: This is the trap of the Catholics.A somewhat-old vim user trying emacs: Now *sigh* I want to be a Protestant again.Whenever I visit a website or read a book which says something about any editor, its mostly about emacs or vim and most of them talk about emacs only.I have been reading a lot about emacs so I thought why don't give it a shot. I want to tell you that I have been

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I was coding from past 25 minutes in my favorite language C (that's because this is the only language I know :-).Any ways I was writing a program which could evaluate reverse Polish expressions taking input from command line (yeah yeah you must be thinking pretty simple, what's so special). The logic of the program is very simple. You just push any incoming operand in the argument list to a stack

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This is a ShortHowTo on aliasing commands in gnulinux so lemme get to the point fast.Every time We write some command on the terminal like poweroff,or mplayer or some other long command, We have to hit a lot of keys. And this really is time consuming. Although auto-completion of commands is really useful but I guess We have to be much more efficient. Well the solution to this problem is aliasing

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Do me a favor, please blog.Even if nobody reads, you should blog. You must be thinking "This guy is nuts. Why should I waste my time, get my fingers pressing all the buttons on the keyboard, end up with severe pain and in the end nobody reads it."Well, I'll say, you should write blogs not for anybody else but for your own self. Blog is a way of achieving innovation and clarity in your own

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