http://www.crudvision.com Lisa Seelye's Blog. Yay Tue, 02 Sep 2008 21:01:33 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Following up to Backing up to Amazon S3 using Amanda (June 28, 2008): I've been having issues with both Amanda+S3 as well as JungleDisk. I'll outline these here. JungleDisk Problems JungleDisk sometimes destroys all of my data on S3 in the bucket JungleDisk uses and then on the next backup re-uploads all of ... http://www.crudvision.com/2008/09/02/following-up-jungledisk-vs-amanda/ I've begun playing with git over at github by importing Reve's source. Eventually I will do away with subversion and trac and move to github for Reve completely. Trac is not very good and often locks up. As I'm still new with git and github I'll have to keep contributions to a ... http://www.crudvision.com/2008/08/28/playing-with-git/ There's a new revision of Reve that has just been uploaded to Rubyforge: Revision 99. This includes a major change - Reve is now licensed under a proper license: the MIT License. The terms of the license are now distributed with the package and are. There is also a fix for the ... http://www.crudvision.com/2008/08/14/reve-is-going-to-mit-license/ Today CCP announced the release of their MS SQL dump. Following in step with past conversions here is a Postgres version. Tested with 8.0.15 but should work on everything. This dump is odd: CCP is using integers where they mean to use booleans. So in those cases remember 1 is true, ... http://www.crudvision.com/2008/07/30/eve-online-empyrean-age-10-database-dump-for-postgresql/ If you've got a boat load of legacy fixtures laying around (and who doesn't?) it can be a pain now that Rails handles the ID of objects so you don't have to. On the train back from holiday I wrote a snippet of code to migrate them: [ruby] def Util.real_yml(klass,col = ... http://www.crudvision.com/2008/07/30/fixtures-in-rails-suck/ Lately the rails-core mail list has declined in quality. Spammers have moved in and operate unfettered. Reporting offenders to Google does nothing. In fact, in order to isolate my personal mail from spam and to keep dspam from getting very confused I've moved the rails-core list to a google mail account. ... http://www.crudvision.com/2008/07/29/the-decline-of-rails-core-mail-list/ Here's a quick announcement to let people know that Reve (0.0.96) now supports Factional Warfare. The cool new things are: Faction-wide war stats http://www.crudvision.com/2008/07/12/reve-supports-eves-factional-warfare-api/ Recently a friend of mine (Sarah) purchased a dedicated server at a hosting company and moved her data to it. Obviously she was in need of a backup solution. She chose Amanda 2.6.0 and to use S3 as her "tape" choice. Seeing how well it worked for her I asked her ... http://www.crudvision.com/2008/06/28/backing-up-to-amazon-s3-using-amanda/ Just a quick note. There's a new Reve gem out as of June 7th. This one's release notes are: Typo fix in Reve::Classes::MapKill - shipJills -> shipKills Resolve trac ticket 3 (lowercase field names in postfields method) Update documentation to make 'charid' more consistantly 'characterid' Resolve trac ticket 2 ... http://www.crudvision.com/2008/06/10/new-reve-gem-release-91/ Yesterday we launched Mini Match, an application me and my colleagues from work wrote for Cartoon Network. Late last year we opened a beta that was, unfortunately, short lived. Friday (May 30, 2008) we opened the system up on a much improved codebase for a few hours and had all systems ... http://www.crudvision.com/2008/06/03/mini-match-is-alive/