AppEngine is nice, but it's a little limiting. No cron jobs, filesystem use nor customization with third party libraries, software, databases, languages, etc. You can't deploy PHP, Ruby and or your 'other' favorite web development tools. You can only use ...

Apache comes with a command line utility called "htpasswd". This utility will generate a username and password that you can use to authenticate against using a .htaccess file. Just run the utility like so: htpasswd -c /path/to/your/password/directory/a...

If you run into problems using ActionMailer > 2.2, Postfix and OpenSSL while sending mail from your application, try changing the following: vim /etc/postfix/main.cf Change smtpd_use_tls=yes to smtpd_use_tls=no OpenSSL support with Postfix does ...

apt-get install librmagick-ruby1.8 apt-get install libmagickwand-dev gem install rmagick The last command will spit out a bunch of "No definition" comments. There are no rdocs available and this is why.

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You Know My Way by Sean Behan [podcast]http://seanbehan.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/01-You-Know-My-Way-MP3.mp3[/podcast]