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Using Railroad and Graphviz Blog update (10/22/2007): Thanks to the comment posted by Blog de Kilgore, I tried Railroad (instead of using the below method with starUML) to visualize my RoR app. Very easy to setup and use (see examples on web page). Here’s a quick command to create a .png graphic file of your…
Here are the ones I tried. Hope the comments aren’t too confusing Simple Rails Log Query Analyzer Ran ruby bin/query_log_analyzer.rb ../log/production.log production.log.1 (small log file ~25MB) Just printed the “Totals” heading with no results production.log (large log file ~400MB) Ran for a long time and nothing happened
After purchasing a wildcard SSL certificate I was hoping to be able to redirect all traffic from http://example.com to https://www.example.com. There were two main goals which were to redirect all traffic to www.example.com and to require HTTPS. There is one flaw with this plan as it requires two valid certificates to work 100% of the…
This is a mini how to that shows how to edit svn:externals from a UNIX shell or from TortoiseSVN on Windows. Follow the simple directions below to modify the svn:externals and commit to your SVN repository. I performed the below two sets of steps on CentOS 5.2 for the Linux steps and on Windows XP Service…
Notepad++ is an upgraded notepad application that provides a lot of functionality past the typical notepad application in Windows. Not only does it provide a tab system to view multiple files easily at the same time but it provides functionality to open and edit many more file types. To add spellcheck to Notepad++ you will…
I changed the system board on my Dell Latitude D420 because of the on-board Ethernet port only working some of the time. After replacing the system board it is required to enable TPM again and activate it for Windows login. First you will need to enable TPM in the BIOS.
I haven’t done a ton of testing with Windows Search but the goal is to rival Google Desktop application that allows you to easily search directories and files on your computer. I have installed and tested each of these on my laptop and quickly uninstalled each. Currently my laptop has 2GB of RAM and a…
If you have recently installed or are in the process of upgrading Microsoft Outlook 2007 there is a possibility that some of the functionality is disabled. This functionality could be disabled for many reasons though all have easy solutions which I walk through below. Activate Software:Make sure your software is activated no matter if it…
If you have an HP w2408h and want to test out the auto rotate you first have to install some software called My HP Display. This software can be downloaded from HP here. First choose the your Operating System from the list on HP’s site so you can download the proper software. Under Utility –…