Learn Rails Quickly with the Flitter screencast

The Flitter screencast series by Eric Berry (Teach Me to Code) is perhaps one of the best screencasts for learning Ruby on Rails quickly. It is a 6 part series and goes through the entire process of creating a Twitter-like clone in Rails. Perhaps the best thing about the screencast is that it is largely [...]

January 21, 2010 | In Programming | No Comments

960 Grid System

The 960 grid system consists of a single CSS file together with templates for Fireworks, Inkscape, Illustrator, OmniGraffle, Photoshop & Visio as well as printable sketch paper. It was created by Nathan Smith to assist in web development projects.
Make sure you also check out the screencast A detailed look at 960 grid system from [...]

January 21, 2010 | In Web Development | 1 Comment

TrueCrypt

TrueCrypt is a free/open source disk encryption system for Windows. It creates encrypted volumes on a hard disk and allows users to mount these volumes as drives in Windows using a secure encryption algorithm, passkey and optionally keyfiles for two-pass authentication.
Mounting a volume using the command line

truecrypt.exe /v C:\VolumeName.example /lC /a /q

Note: use the parameters [...]

January 21, 2010 | In Software | No Comments

The hosts File

The hosts file is text file is used by your TCP/IP connection on the Internet before DNS to map IP addresses to domain names. For really good discussion on what the hosts file is all about, check out the following Security Now Podcast (this is an MP3 file). The hosts file is used in Windows, [...]

January 21, 2010 | In Software | No Comments

Disabling ipv6 in Linux

Make the following modifications to disable ipv6 in CentOS (Redhat) Linux:
/etc/modprobe.conf

alias net-pf-10 off
alias ipv6 off

/etc/sysconfig/network

NETWORKING_IPV6=no

/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0

IPV6INIT=no

Also check the otherl ifcfg-eth0…n and wan0…n scripts.

January 21, 2010 | In Software | No Comments
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