Technical Articles

This section contains a collection of our published technical articles.

Ruby on Rails

Ruby on Rails Development on Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty) using Ruby 1.8.6

Posted by: Nazar Aziz 10 months ago. Read 23320. Commented: 4

This guide details setting up a Ruby on Rails development environment under windows using VirtualBox 2.2.x, Ubuntu 9.04 and Ruby 1.8.6. read more

git-svn-dcommit Workaround for Git Submodules

Posted by: Nazar Aziz about 1 year ago. Read 9171. Commented: 7

This article presents a working solution using Git's little mentioned sub-projects to overcome the git-svn dcommit bug. read more

SVN's svn:externals to GIT's Submodule for Rails Plugins

Posted by: Nazar Aziz over 2 years ago. Read 29237. Commented: 8

Do you manage your Rails Plugins via svn:externals? Thinking of switching to Git but are concerned that Git lacks a direct equivalent of svn:externals? In this article I present a work-around or even IMHO a better solution than SVN's. read more

Rails Unit Testing is Slow Under Cygwin and Windows - Solutions & Alternatives

Posted by: Nazar Aziz over 2 years ago. Read 7451. Commented: 13

Ruby runs faster under a Linux virtual machine in VMWare under windows than it does natively under Windows. read more

Google Maps on Ruby on Rails

Posted by: Nazar Aziz over 2 years ago. Read 5962. Commented: 6

This article details my experience in employing the use of Google Maps in pantherFotos.com. Having little experience in JavaScript and coming from a Delphi software development background I wanted to employ some degree of object orientation and code re-use in my solution. read more

Security

Automatically Report all SSH Brute Force Attacks to ISPs

Posted by: Nazar Aziz about 1 year ago. Read 13644. Commented: 7

Update 4th July: This plugin has now been in operation for about 12 hours and has sent a few notification emails overnight. So far I have had four replies from system admins confirming that these machines have been compromised. These machines have since been removed from the Internet. read more

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