If you’re using the Paperclip Gem, hopefully you won’t have the hours of stumpage I incurred. Here’s something for the Google information vat to swallow. 1. “Not recognized by identify”: This one is resulting from a call to ImageMagick (you did know ImageMagic was required, right?) and a bad relationship with Passenger. The easiest way to resolve this is to place the following...

In my search for an authorization/access control list solution for my Ruby needs I came across Steffen Bartsch’s “Declarative Authorization” plugin (Github source here). Short aside … the plugin allows for a very DRY approach to managing permission from one configuration file, not to mention that it generates a visualization of your ACL, too. This is a huge benefit when building an app...

Try as I might, I could not figure out for the life of me why my Application Descriptor file couldn’t be generated. I cleaned my application, built, and rebuilt, then even sought out on a completely unsuccessful “Google-ca-pade”. I had the correct AIR runtime version referenced and even had another application file in the project building successfully, however the main mxml file continually...

Life gets an upgrade pretty quick: Receive an email, make a phone call, and 45 minutes later we are on way to meet our new son. He’s 2 months old, has wonderfully bright eyes, a captivating smile, and his big sister tells everyone that she’s having a baby brother. God gives the greatest of blessings in little 9 pound packages. See and download the full gallery on posterous or here on flickr Posted...

Just in time for Halloween, a scary movie of epic proportions – a tale of when a Mac gets a virus… (via TUAW)