Entries Related to ‘Tips & Tricks’

How many times have you had to go to a specific directory to launch an application or set several environment variables for an application to be able to find itself and run? Well, here’s a simple trick to add to your shell scripts so that they’re self-contained with no external requirements or editing.

If you need fast indexing and searching, especially if you’re doing Ruby on Rails development, Ferret is worth checking out. But there’s one funky thing that we’ve come across lately and wanted to share — something that works well when running in development mode but that causes bizarre issues in production mode.

Are you waking up to Ubuntu Feisty defaulting to a read only state? Our developers cracked this one…

Often developers need to test multiple browsers during development to test for browser compatibility or to use a different version of the browser because a needed plugin only works on an older version. Firefox offers some handy options to run several versions side-by-side.

Experiencing performance problems with Red Hat and Perl? The Perl that’s bundled with Red Hat, along with code that uses the bless/overload combination, can result in a severe system slow down. This is a known issue with Red Hat supplied Perl.