http://blog.emson.co.uk Fri, 22 Jan 2010 21:32:39 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en If you build web sites and host (or want to host) them on Dreamhost, you will be well aware that at some stage you will be using SSH to log in and out of your hosting server. If you have many sites then this gradually becomes tiresome - especially if ... http://blog.emson.co.uk/2009/09/how-to-automatically-log-in-using-ssh-on-dreamhost/ This is just a quick post. I've been playing around with the Sinatra micro web framework, and have to say that it is excellent. It really is the perfect tool for rapidly creating small and useful Ruby micro-sites. Being small and lightweight it doesn't have many of the features of larger ... http://blog.emson.co.uk/2009/09/create-sinatra-partials-the-rails-way/ Using bash scripts to become a more efficient web developer Here are a few scripts, that I find really useful for speeding up my web development time. I've been building up this list as I needed to use them - so they maybe a little raw. For example often clients send me images ... http://blog.emson.co.uk/2009/06/18-useful-bash-scripts-for-web-developers/ Jenson Button has just got pole position ready for the Australian Formula One race tomorrow. This is pretty exciting as on either side of his helmet is the Halcyon Events Ltd. logo. [caption id="attachment_39" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="Jenson Button\'s Helmet with Halcyon Logo"][/caption] Halcyon Events is a company that specialises in high ... http://blog.emson.co.uk/2009/03/halcyon-events-logo-on-jenson-buttons-formula-one-helmet/ This is just a quick note to apologise for not posting for the last couple of months. A lot has been happening and I have actually written a number of posts but never quite finished them. Also I promise to write more regularly come the end of March ... http://blog.emson.co.uk/2009/03/an-apology-and-a-promise/ Google Chrome is not just a browser Google Chrome was launched a few days ago on the 2nd September 2008, since then there has been much hype and articles written about it. So what is it? Well, Wikipedia describes it: "Google Chrome is a free and open source web browser developed ... http://blog.emson.co.uk/2008/09/chrome-is-a-desktop-web-application-platform/ A friend had the following problem with their laptop the other day. When they open Microsoft Word they cannot select any text with the mouse, they couldn't even place the cursor into the text by clicking the mouse on the text. She said that the situation seemed to have occured when Norton ... http://blog.emson.co.uk/2008/08/cannot-select-text-with-mouse-in-microsoft-word-fix/ I'm trying to put together a number of blog articles and many of them use the MySQL database, so I figured that I would post up some of my most used everyday MySQL SQL commands. Most likely I will append further commands as I write more articles so this ... http://blog.emson.co.uk/2008/08/everyday-mysql-commands/ It's been a wee while since my last article, which has largely been due to my summer holiday. Anyway I've been reading up and experimenting with the SproutCore JavaScript framework. Its excellent but I wanted to explain why companies and developers should consider using it. So I've written an article on ... http://blog.emson.co.uk/2008/08/sproutcore-and-web-applications/ Introduction I wrote this article originally so that I could write command-line apps using Ruby, as I got further and further down the line I realised that what I really wanted to do was create a command-line app using RubyGems. I use both Windows and an Apple Mac and I ... http://blog.emson.co.uk/2008/06/an-almost-fix-for-creating-rubygems-on-windows/