Leaving the current nest
by sylv3rblade on February 2, 2012
So yes. I finally made the decision to write THE letter. I’ll be forwarding it to my superiors on the 15th and I’ll be signing my contract with the new company on Monday. More monies plox.
ArgumentError: invalid byte sequence in US-ASCII
by sylv3rblade on January 3, 2012
If you’re on Ruby 1.9.2 and have started getting this error when trying to install gems (either by gem install or bundle install), your environment is simply missing the LANG variable and is loading up US-ASCII by default. To fix (…)
Built a new PC over the holidays
by sylv3rblade on January 1, 2012
I was planning on saving things up for Ivy Bridge but seeing that it’s release date is around 6 months (or more) away, I decided to bite the bullet and splurge a bit to build a new gaming PC. Here’s (…)
Need moar coffee
by sylv3rblade on November 24, 2011
Sleep is a bit of a rare commodity for me these past few days :/ Must. Get. Sleep. But I need to finish my projects. Need. Moar. Coffee.
Back online yay!
by sylv3rblade on October 27, 2011
FINALLY! I lost all hope of waiting for the host of my dev box to get things in line and bring back my development VPS from it’s infinite downtime so I said “screw it” and moved this blog back under (…)
Installing XCache on a server with Cpanel
by sylv3rblade on May 3, 2011
Traffic on my VPS jumped over the past few weeks and I needed a better caching solution so I installed W3 Total Cache. It provided you the option of caching pages, databases queries, features an object cache and even allows (…)
Just upgraded ;)
by sylv3rblade on April 19, 2011
I bit the bullet. I’ve managed to complete a few projects this year which gave me enough money to sponsor the upgrade . Yep it’s a costly upgrade (but I still have a few more things to get, like 2 (…)
cPanel error: httpd failed – A restart was attempted automagically
by sylv3rblade on April 10, 2011
While my recent server transfer has been smooth sailing, I did encounter one error that bugged the hell out of me. At certain points of the day, I’d be receiving a notice that my VPS had it’s httpd process fail (…)
Migrating my blogs to WiredTree
by sylv3rblade on April 7, 2011
Because of several stability issues with my current VPS provider (not for this site), I decided to move forward and transfer to a new host. By reputation, it was a choice between Servint, WiredTree and KnownHost. I chose WiredTree out (…)
uninitialized constant Rack::Test (NameError)
by sylv3rblade on April 4, 2011
Cucumber-rails 0.4.0 was released for Rails 3.x. If you try to use it with anything below that (Rails 2.3.x), you’ll encounter the error: Is the rack-test driver missing? Nope. Well you still need that installed but the root cause of (…)