TechnoHippy » Technology http://www.technohippy.geek.nz <a href="/me">What is a TechnoHippy?</a> Thu, 19 Aug 2010 01:43:13 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Lets hope… http://www.technohippy.geek.nz/2010/01/lets-hope/ http://www.technohippy.geek.nz/2010/01/lets-hope/#comments Mon, 11 Jan 2010 06:06:57 +0000 kiwinewt http://www.technohippy.geek.nz/?p=643 This works:

order allow,deny
deny from 203.97.120.87
deny from 121.73.214.121
deny from 219.88.68.120
allow from all

Can anyone confirm it before I test tomorrow?

]]> http://www.technohippy.geek.nz/2010/01/lets-hope/feed/ 0 multi-language text field http://www.technohippy.geek.nz/2009/11/multi-language-text-field/ http://www.technohippy.geek.nz/2009/11/multi-language-text-field/#comments Sat, 07 Nov 2009 23:34:39 +0000 kiwinewt http://nate.walkerfamily.net.nz/?p=557 Today I asked in #rubyonrails: How can I have a model with a text field and have that text field in multiple languages?

Epic thanks to Radar for the answer:

http://frozenplague.net/2009/11/scoping-by-locales/

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Now, the guy that wrote this has done some awesome stuff such as SearchLogic and others. SettingsLogic looks pretty similar to my original AppConfig way of doing things, which I like.
What I still want, however, is a database-driven settings plugin that will allow in-place changes to certain application settings (e.g. site name, admin email, etc), but I still havent found one.
Anyone know of any?

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Just over the last few days, I have been setting up a new server. Over on SliceHost. Yeah. I have found many issues running my Ruby on Rails apps over on DreamHost (like the fact that DreamHost won’t give you enough memory to run more than one).

So I have now moved WebToday across, which is good. Getting the emails working correctly was a whole nother kettle of fish though! At least now I have found out how to create a mailbox that forwards straight on (so it can be used for sending mail, but all received mail goes elsewhere).

There are a couple of things I have noticed about SliceHost which I really like – 24/7 live chat with them, articles on how to do the basics (setup a mail server, for example) and the ability to clone a slice. This means that when the number of emails and websites gets too much, I can clone the slice, remove the web role from one and the mail role from the other (and same thing for the database).

Anyway, enough love story for now, back to moving domains across…

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New Zealand government censoring our Internet access is in today’s Herald http://is.gd/1A535
Nate Walker:
What the hell??? They shouldnt be allowed to do this. If they must censor, government-based internet censorship should be open and people should be able to know what is on the list and there should be a process to get oneself removed from the list as well.

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FAIL

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Anyone know anything much about them?

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Anyone able to recommend anywhere to go? I *have* to get my hands on some epic ale at some point too…
Much thanks
Kiwinewt :)

]]> http://www.technohippy.geek.nz/2009/03/dear-wellingtonians/feed/ 0 Changes http://www.technohippy.geek.nz/2008/12/changes/ http://www.technohippy.geek.nz/2008/12/changes/#comments Fri, 05 Dec 2008 10:00:26 +0000 kiwinewt http://nate.walkerfamily.net.nz/?p=326 Alright. After creating a new theme for the Rocket Boys website and finding it *really* easy to do, I have now gone and created my own theme for my website. It is based on the previous one that was on here, but I have tidied up the CSS, removed that annoying hover change on *everything* and created a logo and colour scheme based on it :) . This also includes rounded corners for those lucky enough to be using a Gecko or Webkit browser (e.g.: Firefox 2+ or Safari).

I have also added some pages I think that I needed, so please check them out. The main one is the Contract Work page, especially since I would like some extra work to do :)

Hope everyone enjoys the changes. If not (or if something doesnt work) let me know!

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