http://26webs.com/blog Sun, 10 Aug 2008 02:38:44 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I just did a clean install of Lenny AMD64 and had issues getting Iceweasel to start. No output from the command line, just a blank screen and no Iceweasel process. I did a strace /usr/bin/iceweasel and after a zillion meaningless lines I found the jackpot. My ~/.mozilla folder was owned ... http://26webs.com/blog/2008/08/09/iceweasel-on-debian-lenny-wouldnt-start/ It's always easy for someone else to do it - just ask this guy: "In need of a web programmer to complete a project that is 3/4 completed. Its not complex and it involves attaching a website to a replicator script that is already pre-molded, changing some text on some already ... http://26webs.com/blog/2008/08/08/piece-of-cake/ I'm not exactly sure what this is yet, but the transparent png trick is pretty dang cool. Make sure you resize your browser window once the page is loaded, then watch the vines. http://silverbackapp.com/ http://26webs.com/blog/2008/02/22/neat-o-transparent-png-trick/ Need to insert some fake data in your development database? Grab the Faker gem and drop this into lib/tasks/fake_data.rb. Customize it for your model(s) and execute with rake db:development:fake_data. namespace :db do namespace :development do desc "Create records in the development database." task :fake_data ... http://26webs.com/blog/2008/02/02/a-rake-task-for-faker/