Category Archives: Programmation

Virtualbox: auto-mounting a shared folder on Ubuntu at startup

For developing web applications under Ruby on Rails, I’m using Ubuntu server 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat) under Vitualbox, on a Vista host. With this setup, to mount a shared folder under Ubuntu, you have to type a command like in this example: mount -t vboxsf apps /home/daniel/apps/ But it means you have to type it after [...]

Stuck with a programming question ? Stackoverflow.com is just brillant.

Today, I just started to pay closer attention to stackoverflow.com , and I’m just really glad I did. My ritual, when searching for programming-related answers, is to fire up Google, search, find some related blogs and articles, read a few, figure things out, and write, hack or fix my code. And eventually, spend a little [...]

Quality Ruby on Rails hosting, for free

Have I finally found the ultimate shared hosting ? As I was searching for a good  Ruby on Rails host, I found an interesting provider: Alwaysdata (alwaysdata.com). They have a lot of good features and what seems to be an excellent support, judging from their reactivity on the support forum. Modern web frameworks are already [...]

Utiliser WordPress comme CMS ?

Je suis en train de découvrir de mieux en mieux WordPress, notamment depuis la création de ce blog. Et je dois avouer que depuis la dernière fois que j’ai utilisé WordPress… ce qui remonte à environ 4 ans à vue de pif… il a bien évolué ! À l’époque, ce n’était encore qu’un « simple » système [...]