Light-Up Sheep Art

… that a person, with his feet covered in ice and his head burning, is feeling well according to the statistical mean. O.Univ.-Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr.techn. Rodulf Dutter

How do you find out on which version of Rails your code is running? script/console Loading development environment (Rails 2.3.2) >> Rails::VERSION::STRING => “2.3.2″ >> Rails::VERSION::MAJOR => 2 >> Rails::VERSION::MINOR => 3 >> Rails::VERSION::TINY => 2 >> Rails::VERSION.constants => ["TINY", "STRING", "MINOR", "MAJOR"] >>

sudo gem install rubygems-update && sudo update_rubygems

Equity: To be respected and to be treated fairly in areas such as pay, benefits, and job security. Achievement: To be proud of one’s job, accomplishments, and employer. Camaraderie: To have good, productive relationships with fellow employees. This is an excerpt of a very good article about “Why Your Employees Are Losing Motivation“.

Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, the providence moves too. A whole stream of events issues from the [...]

I’m currently downloading a very big file (15GB) over a slow and unstable connection, so I was looking for a way to resume the download if the connection stalled or if I had to disconnect my notebook for some time. I ended up using good old wget with the following options: wget -c –tries=0 –retry-connrefused [...]

Yesterday I had the pleasure to setup a mailserver for my private domains. Since we had a very good experience with postfix and dovecot at work, I was looking for a simple tutorial on howto setup postfix for smtp and dovecot for imap (I did some mail server setups with qmail and postfix before and [...]