Have you ever wanted to know the list of packages which are about to be installed, including the current version and what version it is going to be updated to? Well, I have the solution:

A while ago I attending the http://owningrails.com. It was a fantastic course which de-mystified Rails by showing it’s not magic - it just sometimes uses Rubys syntax to hide how it works.

I have been working for Boost New Media for about 2 years - all of which sitting a desk all day long. I know the bad effects of sitting all day, like Deep Vein Thrombosis etc.

I’ve finally decided to move my blog from Wordpress to Octopress. It’s taken a while to get here, but now that that day job is Ruby on Rails - blogging with Ruby and Git just makes sense.

If you are wanting to search for all nodes with a recipe in Chef you can search:

Getting a link to a Refinery CMS Page is harder than you think. To get it to produce the link including parent paths etc use:

This is a list of steps and resources used to set up my Dlink DNS-323 RevB NAS.

I had a problem where the network card driver in Windows 7 was faulty.  It is a known issue with the Asus on-board ethernet card.  The fix was to install the Vista driver, but doing that is easier said than done.

My current HTPC setup includes a Mac Mini sitting under a 40” LCD flatscreen running Boxee.  All my media is sitting on a Windows 7 machine, with standard windows shares setup.  My MacMini doesn’t have any mouse or keyboard, so everything needs to be done via the apple remote.  When not in use the MacMini sleeps so things to come up correctly when waking.

I recently came across a problem in a Spring Webflow based application where I needed to have one page as a standard Spring MVC page. I needed to write a PDF file to the actual http response and I’m not allowed to do that in WebFlow. So I defined a standard Spring MVC Controller and URL Mapper to complement my existing Flow Controller: