Monthly Archives: April 2008

Rails, mod_fcgid and 503 errors

Posted on April 10, 2008 by jebw

Whilst setting up a Rails app for one of our clients I’ve been getting 503 errors occasionally when browsing the site. It seems to occur whenever the fastcgi process has been dormant for a while, and presumably killed of by … Continue reading →

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Fun with Servers

Posted on April 10, 2008 by jebw

A couple of weeks back the hard disk in our office server died, like many offices this is an old computer in the corner with just a single disk running debian. At the time I got it back up quite … Continue reading →

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Well planned ice climbing trip – Not!

Posted on April 3, 2008 by jebw

Every once in a while I head up to scotland to go ice climbing. These are always quite major trips, lots of effort and in theory there should be lots of planning. I’ve yet to manage that on any trip … Continue reading →

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Refund on Windows Tax

Posted on April 3, 2008 by jebw

Wow – it actually worked. I got a new shiny new Dell laptop a month ago, which I’d had to buy a copy of Windows with, no option to not purchase, so I’d figured it’d be worth at least trying … Continue reading →

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Fixing RedBox Bugs

Posted on April 2, 2008 by jebw

We use RedBox, a lightbox plugin, for a couple of Rails sites in work. It works great most of the time but today I’d got a bug with its overlay not hiding absolutely positioned elements in the page, only under … Continue reading →

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