For a soon to be announced project I needed to setup a main website/cms with WordPress and then within that same domain also setup a Rails application. This is trickier than it sounds as WordPress on Nginx has some very specific setup requirements in order for pretty URLs to work. There were also lots of tutorials online about how to [...]

I had a great time last Saturday at Raleigh Ruby Camp and met a host of Ruby on Rails developers working on interesting things. One of the discussions that occurred was lead by Mark Imbracio of 37 Signals. I’ve posted the audio below and have linked to some of the topics that came up in the discussion. The audio quality [...]

My development environment has consisted of a Windows Machine, a Mac Mini and a Linux box (running Cent OS) for a while now. With the recent release of MySQL 5, I thought it would be amusing to both begin upgrading my development boxes and also install PHP+MySQL on all of the different machines to play with replication, etc. I ran [...]