Matthew Hutchinson

Steve Jobs

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Stanford Commencement Speech – 2005 (Video) 14:33mn

On next month, September 14th, 15th here in London – Looks like a great lineup with lots of talks to choose from AND it hasn’t even sold out yet – Who else is going ?

Following on from part 3 you should now have your Rails application nicely hosted and deployed using Capistrano from your SVN repository. All good – but what happens when you want to serve another public web folder into the mix e.g. in public/myfolder, but you DON’T want it under version control ? Why you ask ?

Well lets take this example further, what if this folder contained a copy of the Mint stats package in public/mint – i.e. PHP code, that you wanted to execute and run. Since new versions of Mint are released fequently, and i’m often adding and removing ‘Peppers’ (read Mint Plugins), I see no need to put Mint under version control. Purists might argue differently, but I dont collect stats on my local dev box either so it makes no sense to have it there after a checkout.

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This (king-kong long) post is a continuation of a mini-guide that has already covered putting your Rails app under SVN version control, and deploying it with Capistrano. Now to explain how to serve it all up on a layered and scalable web server stack using Lighttpd, Pound and Mongrel. But first some obvious questions;

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Here’s a tiny demo showing how to use Google Maps as part of a form element, to allow a user to pick their location from a map (latitude/longitude).

I recently used something like this in the administration pages while building Beyond Endurance. Here, every explorer has the opportunity to have their own blog where the expedition, and their experiences can be plotted and tracked