When developing a new Ruby on Rails project, one doesn’t always start from scratch. Often one first searches for an open-source project that will at least get one part of the way there. For example, one might want to do something as simple a create a website with a blog as well as image galleries. The first step in this journey might be to find some open-source blog software for Rails, e....
I recently began a new position at Canonical. I joined this company in particular to give myself more opportunities for growth. Now, when I say that, people tend to assume I’m talking about a managerial track. I’m not sure why they tend to jump there, but it’s not what I’m referring to here. I’m talking about technical growth. I feel at the top of my game when I’m learning something brand new, and I needed a company that facilitated that....
I ran into the need to access the internet from a VirtualBox VM via host-only networking. Of course, you’re saying “There’s a better way to do that!” And of course, I agree: with no other considerations, the best way to do this is to simply add another NIC to the VM configured as NAT instead of host-only. However, I’m trying to test out some new networking ideas for my OpenStack Network node, and it doesn’t have a NIC configured with NAT....
Several years ago, I was new to my specific group at work. I was working on a combination of image processing and a GUI for keeping track of specific objects in the camera’s view. I started on the GUI first, writing a server that received object locations and handed them off to the GUI which displayed them in a nifty way. I was using Qt and QML, which I have used in numerous personal projects, so I was pretty familiar and confident with what I was doing....
As I’ve mentioned in previous posts, I run all my websites on a MiraBox– my nifty, low-power ARM server. As awesome as it is having a low-power server, it does make things more difficult. I’m a Ruby on Rails developer, and I run three websites on this thing, along with a gitolite installation so I can host my own code. However, I recently began a few projects collaborating with other people, and as the projects grow, gitolite is not the collaboration platform of success....