The books I'm reading these days come with examples of code, saved on associated web sites. Sometimes that code is neatly packaged into a zip archive or tarball, with every piece of code sitting in a directory named after the chapter it was referenced in. But other times these web sites have the code sitting [...]
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Ruby, Rails and Cygwin
Wednesday, 17 December 2008
Somebody needs to write a simple content management system (CMS) for a project that a few friends of mine started a couple of years ago.
Every year, a bunch of us chip in for two small scholarships for the graduating class of the high school in Salonta, Romania. The job would be a lot easier if [...]
Cygwin, the kind-of-UNIX
Wednesday, 8 October 2008
A couple of days ago I installed Cygwin because I wanted a way to run UNIX applications in Windows. Cygwin sets up a UNIX-like directory with the root, /, wherever it is that you install it (by default, C:\cygwin).
Example of usage: to get SSH access to my server, I normally use PuTTY. But after I installed [...]