Wagtail in Docker
Over the weekend I found out about a CMS software written on top of Django called Wagtail. The installation instructions promise an easy path. Just run: pip install wagtail Since…
Fast Guide to Launching an EC2 Instance w/ SSH Access
Concepts Minimal number of concepts to understand: Key pair -- a pair of public and private cryptographic keys that will be used to establish a secure shell/terminal to the launched…
Aptana w/ Rails for Windows 7
See http://www.therealvan.com/pn/?p=186 for installing: Rails 3.0.3 & MySQL on Windows 7. After installing those, and once work begins, chances are an IDE w/ line-debugging capabilities are needed. Aptana Studio 3 seems to…
Heroku on Windows 7
Prerequisites Git installed and on PATH Installation Sign up for a Heroku account. Note the user email address and password. Download and install the Heroku Toolbelt. (see https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/quickstart) Even if…
Rails w/ MySQL (Windows 7-64)
Mainly notes on setting up the following (suitable for Dreamhost's Rails setup): Ruby 1.8.7-p374 Rails 3.0.3 Ruby devkit (from http://rubyinstaller.org/downloads/) MySQL Installer 5.6.17 Community Server 64-bit mysql2 GEM '0.2.22' Install Ruby 1.8.7 by…
Debugging Node.js on Windows
Confluence One annoying thing about Open Source and/or free stuff in general is that things are sparsely documented, if even. Take the n packages and, due to the ways they…