Monthly Archives: August 2006

Java.net SubVersion is missing?

Posted on August 11, 2006 by Brian Pontarelli

I got a response in my comments from someone at CollabNet (probably should ping Brian and see what he says) and she said that Java.net has SubVersion and you can select it during sign up. Here’s what I see at … Continue reading →

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Google Code

Posted on August 10, 2006 by Brian Pontarelli

Dan Moore posted about my Google Projects idea and apparently Google is already doing this. It’s called Google Code and is available at http://code.google.com. Naturally I needed to see what they had done with it. First off they decided not … Continue reading →

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Java.net is in the dark ages! (AKA the world needs Google Projects)

Posted on August 8, 2006 by Brian Pontarelli

Java.net STILL doesn’t have SubVersion! I mean really? Really? Just not worth it. But then again SourceForge’s crazy FTP crap to release files is just about the lamest thing ever and JavaForge forces you to log in to download files … Continue reading →

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FCGID timeout causing Rails 500 errors

Posted on August 6, 2006 by Brian Pontarelli

The default timeout for FCGID is pretty low I think (maybe 5-10 seconds). This was causing me SO much grief that I was just about to lose it. I found these posts out there that helped a lot: http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/Debian+mod_fastcgi+Notes http://weblog.rubyonrails.com/2005/01/03/watch-for-huge-requests-on-default-fcgi … Continue reading →

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Eeck more Ruby parser crapola!

Posted on August 6, 2006 by Brian Pontarelli

Oh my god! This one pass Ruby parser is really annoying. Here’s todays example that doesn’t compile: DICTIONARY = create_dictionary def MyClass.create_dictionary … end Yep, you got it, this blows up with a nice error message stating that the variable … Continue reading →

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