Archive for the ‘Development’ Category

Back to the old outfit

Thursday, December 31st, 2009

Some readers reported problems in order to read the code blocks. So i changed the theme back to the original one.

Happy new year, v.

New Outfit

Monday, August 10th, 2009

Hi, after searching some wp-themes databases I chose to give my blog a new look. So here it is.

I decided to go with the Hemingway theme for now. If you have any suggestions for another cool theme feel free to give me a hint.

Retro Gaming with Sega’s Dreamcast

Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009

I found this yesterday at dev.yuanworks.com. Take a look at it if you are interested in independent games development. You’ll find some nice articles about game design, development and programming.

Looks like I’m gonna reactivate my dreamcast.

Typo3: Multi-Domain error when using a subdirectory as Typo3 root with mod_alias

Wednesday, May 13th, 2009

Multi-Domain setup broke on Typo3 version 4.2.2 when I tried to use my Typo3 root folder as subdirectory with mod alias.
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Rails: Migrate databases in production environment

Tuesday, May 12th, 2009

How to migrate databases in rails.
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Monit 5.0.1: 2 Errors during installation

Wednesday, May 6th, 2009

I encountered following error while running ./configure for Monit 5.0.1:
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Ruby on Rails: Generate a version specific project

Monday, May 4th, 2009

Short answer to a frequently asked question:
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Ruby: Convert Strings from UTF-8 to LATIN1 (ISO 8859-1) with Iconv

Thursday, April 30th, 2009

I used VPIM to create VCards from employees in my database which stores the employee’s data UTF-8 encoded. Then I wanted to give the user the possibility to download them. And of course half of the employees’ names were corrupted because I didn’t convert them to LATIN1 (ISO 8859-1). so here’s what i came up with:
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RubyGems: undefined method ‘manage_gems’ for Gem:Module (NoMethodError)

Thursday, April 30th, 2009

After updating RubyGems I got the following error message:
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Installing sqlite3 for Rails on Windows XP

Wednesday, April 29th, 2009

Here is a short description how to install sqlite3 with RubyGems on Windows XP.

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