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Show current and upgraded package versions in Yum

August 4, 2014

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:

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Owning Rails Course Notes

March 12, 2014

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.

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Standup Desks at Boost

September 21, 2013

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.

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I've Moved to Octopress!

August 14, 2013

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.

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Search for Sub-Recipe in Expanded Run List in Chef

May 17, 2013

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

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Get real links to Refinery CMS pages

November 6, 2012

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:

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DNS-323 Setup

November 22, 2010

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

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How To Replace a Default Windows Driver

February 13, 2010

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.

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How to automatically connect to Windows Share

January 12, 2010

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.

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How to access the Spring WebFlow from Spring MVC

September 1, 2009

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:

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