April 2008
8 posts
Using Visor →
Nice and neat for the part-time Terminal user (ie, me).
“It is good to know the truth, but it is better to speak of palm trees.”
– Arab Proverb
Tempfiles and very large multipart forms
Ignore the fact that problems with very large forms suggest a user interface refactoring is on the cards. When a form is multipart, the Ruby CGI module creates a Tempfile for many or all of the fields, which on some systems causes the process to die horribly emitting Last Words like:
Errno::EMFILE: Too many open files
This is a workaround that verges on a hack. Adding it to config/environment.rb...
“The player itself is as stripped back as we could make it. We though carefully...”
– cityofsound: Monocle: design notes
“.searchbar-engine-image {
margin-left: -11px !important;
margin-right: 2px...”
– How to use a Firefox3 GrApple theme and still see search engine icons (if you happen to be a Cmd-K, Cmd-Down type)
Let my People Have Root →
I am at times wary of Joyent, but on this subject I agree with them. We’re looking forward to trying out some Google Apps here at the Labs, but our inclination to create one is born of merely mild curiousity, which we probably won’t indulge. Certainly nothing serious, for the reasons given in the link.
