Some months ago, goons from Bajrang Dal stormed into our little office with lathis (sticks) and other sharp objects to terrorize and shut us down. We angrily complied and saved our people and our property. It was not a pleasant day in the office since we spent the rest of the day watching over our shoulders. They threatened our office family and to break computers and such. We felt helpless in a way that we as Indian citizen never should in our homes. I’m glad BJP is out of power in Rajasthan today. There is no real cheer however since there are no guarantees that it won’t happen again.
Go this message pops out of my mailbox to go to prom. How many dates does Posterous take this message to dance for?
In which the title of this very blog’s index page disappeared sometime back mysteriously.
Now, I don’t know much about Wordpress, but i experimented a bit with the theme’s header.php to no effect. It led me towards having a look at my plugins next. All-In-One-SEO pack seemed like a likely culprit and deactivating it fixed the title issue.
I then reactivated the plugin and tinkered with the settings. The Home Title setting was not set, and I had a brief Eureka moment that, that might be the issue. I put “%blog_title% in it and refreshed. Nope, no change. I then did, what every sane developer does at first symptom of wit’s end, google search. It seems a few other people were having the same problem (thankfully!).
To cut a long story short, i deleted the plugin (like literally deleted it) and reinstalled it. This kinda fixed the problem but this time the title was an explicit “%blog%”. Removing the newly updated value back to blank fixed the issue once and for all along with a working All-In-One-SEO pack plugin.
The root cause of the problem it seems was an automatic upgrade of the plugin which was incompatible with the version of Wordpress that i’m using (2.6.3). It could also be that i have to do a manual install of the latest version of the plugin with my current version of Wordpress, but for now i’m not terribly bothered.
I always wondered what command i needed to find just the outdated gems. The fool that i am i never did “gem help commands“, but i’m wiser now. Found it in passing reading a mailing list post.
So basically the big reason for this is we’re developing on Windows (since we can’t afford the usual Apple laptops over in our office) and gem update usually fails if a gem doesnt have a WIN32 precompiled binary or something over at the rubygems source. It would be nice for the update to keep going, but until that happens i’m happy enough to update my gems manually but not blindly. “gem outdated” helps.
Just a note that sometimes, “gem outdated” reports on gems which are equal to the latest, dont know why but not something to worry about I hope (tell me in comments if i do). I’m ignoring this for now.
On a similar note, i sometimes need to explicitly mention the version i want, like for e.g. when installing eventmachine or json. for e.g. “gem install eventmachine --version=0.12.0“. The reason for that is simple, you need to find the highest version compatible with your operating system. Get out of your comfortable seat, head over to RubyForge or Github or whatever your gem sources are and check the latest version compatible for your operating system (let’s face it we’re talking Windows here only!).
In which I actually find an application I can use. At the moment, I’m on a weight loss regime and I wish I could really do better with cardio.
Came across this application while browsing the RailsRumble leaderboard, Run1mile. It’s not yet on my Ballot, but if it does appear, full marks!
It’s pretty, it’s pretty useful and i think it’s complete! Gets me to complete a clear and simple goal. Oh I hope the programs are workable!
This is really cool! I think we’ll be doing this with all our apps. I can totally understand the feeling when an impersonal blankish minimalist error page pops up. It’s gutting! About time we told the user who’s responsible and there’s someone doing something about it!
10.18My Tweets 2008-10-18
Now decided to give a new look to Our existing website (risingsuntech.net) i am excited to do this. But we have to wait for some time for this Fresh Look…….
10.15My Tweets 2008-10-15
- experimenting with ec2 rails image #