The blog of Steve Root

Category: WebDev & Code

  • ruby on rails sql_type – A reminder for me

    I treated myself to a rails training course last weekend (with Well House Consultants, rather good, I’ll write about it if I get around to it). Immediately I start to create my first ruby app and I forget all the sqltypes I can use in my Model and where to look them up. As I…

  • Migrating Coldfusion to Open Bluedragon – form.FIELDNAMES

    This is a note for my future self, because something tells me I’ll come across the same problem again…. The old server ran Colfusion MX 6.01, the new server is running Open Bluedragon, the near equivalent to Coldfusion 7 or 8. (Colfusion MX6.01 doesn’t work properly with Apache 2, or more recent linux operating systems…

  • Fresh Ubuntu install could not resolve domains names – and how I fixed it… maybe

    For some time I’ve had trouble installing Ubuntu Server to test things. Affecting 7.10 & 8.04, but only at work and not at home. Strange. Now though, I’ve just figured out what the problem was, at least, I thought I had. At work, we have a gateway/DHCP box (say: 192.168.55.254). When handing out IP addresses,…