Accumulative Effect | The rants of Ashley Angell. Developer, Geek and ...

If you happen to be fortunate enough to have access to a Unix based web server (such as an EC2 or Linode) machine) you will surprised how easy it is to safely browse the web – circumventing the Australian government’s 2 year mandatory metadata retention...

Recently, I need to move some Rails projects I was working on to new computer and this needs me to install all the dependencies for these projects.  While using bundler to install the gems; I encountered the following error:
Fortunately, with homebrew fixing this (on OSX 10.11, El Capitan at least) worked perfectly. Simply execute these commands:...

There can be no doubt that the easiest way to increase the performance of an old Mac is to replace it’s hard disk with a shiny new Solid State Drive (SSD). The problem with this is that officially Apple only supports TRIM on Apple’s SSDs, effectively...

Anyone who has even the smallest amount of experience developing with Ruby on Rails knows that Rails has some pretty sweet configuration conventions which make switching between environments very easy. Switching from development to production to testing...