Archive for February, 2010

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SCALE 8x

Feb 22

Posted by admin in Linux/Unix | No Comments

Being my first Linux conference, overall I had a really good time. Seeing and talking to a lot of famous Open Source figures was pretty kool.

I only managed to see four different talks.
My favorite talk was Jono Bacon’s talk on the evolution of the Free Software/Open Source movement to what now will be fun and rapid development using a new development approach. Essentially, Cononical has developed a Python software development framework called Quickly (reminds me of Ruby on Rails, though I haven’t hacked much on it to even compare its similarities) That makes it real easy to package (.deb only) and publish.

BSD for Linux users:
This talk was mainly focused on the difference and advantages of using the BSD’ s (NetBSD, FreeBSD, OpenBSD) compared to Linux. Now more then I ever, I’m thinking of delaying a DNS BIND server on my local network running on OpenBSD.

Basic Introduction to KDE:
As the name implies, it was definitely, an introduction to KDE 4. Although I prefer using Gnome, the

Python for non programmers:
Also, as the name implies, this was a definite introduction to Python. Although I’m not big on Python, I definitely felt like an advance Python hacker by being on this talk.

Even though I only attended the Saturday event, I really enjoyed SCALE. It definitely felt like a community conference and it didn’t felt corporate what so ever.

mod_ruby and eRuby

Feb 16

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I finally had some time to install mod_ruby and eRuby on my server.

Prerequisites:
httpd-devel ruby ruby-devel eruby
yum install httpd-devel ruby ruby-devel eruby

Installing mod_ruby was pretty confusing, as module default compilation is intended for Apache 1.3 (not why this is the case)

If you’re running Apache 2.0 or higher, I managed to successfully compiled mod_ruby as the following:
./configure.rb –with-apr-includes=/usr/include/apr-1
make
make install

After the install, then its a matter of just adding the custom ruby http conf file to httpd conf.d directory.

SAMPLE:
AddType text/html .rhtml LoadModule ruby_module modules/mod_ruby.so




  RubyRequire apache/ruby-run

  #RubyRequire apache/ruby-debug
  RubyRequire apache/eruby-run

  #RubyRequire apache/eruby-debug
  # Execute *.rbx files as Ruby scripts

  

    Options ExecCGI

    SetHandler ruby-object

    RubyHandler Apache::RubyRun.instance

    #RubyHandler Apache::RubyDebug.instance

# Handle *.rhtml files as eRuby files SetHandler ruby-object RubyHandler Apache::ERubyRun.instance RubyHandler Apache::ERubyDebug.instance

Now I can embed Ruby code on standard html pages serving and running natively using Apache and eRuby.
Hence, perlninja.pl

References:
http://www.modruby.net/en/
http://www.ptwit.ac.th/seksan/blog/?p=59

WordPress Upgrade

Feb 15

Posted by admin in Web Development | No Comments

WordPress upgrade went real smooth. At a glance, WordPress 1.4 and 2.9 seem to be worlds apart.

New domain name registered: perlninja.pl

Feb 5

Posted by admin in Perl, Programming, Ruby | No Comments

I may not be a perl ninja (just yet) but the domain name kicks ass.

perlninja.pl

Tony Baltazar

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