Assets precompile without a database in Rails 4 and 5
The other day I had a request from my IT guy. He asked: “Hey, can you make rails not connect to the database when running assets precompile?” I said sure… […]
Kubuntu made me love linux on my surface again
I have been using Ubuntu Gnome for a long time. Then ubuntu decided to ditch unity for Gnome, at first I thought this was great news. When Ubuntu 18.04 came […]
Special Character Macros in DP2
Due to encoding limitation in DP2, sometimes it is better to replace some common special characters by their macro equivalent. Here is a list of some of the most common […]
College pranks. A clear example of why you shouldn’t marginalize knowledge
A friend on mine tells the next story from his college days. Apart from being hilarious, I think it is a great example of why knowledge should not be marginalized […]
Surface Pro 3 no longer needs custom linux kernel
Good news! As of Ubuntu 16.04 and linux kernel 4.5, there is no need to create a custom kernel for the SP3. Most things work right away except for the […]
Calculate the Size of Base64.strict_encode64 in Ruby
I was in need to calculate the size of the output of Base64.strict_encode64. I wanted to get this value to determine if the file was too big to send to […]
Build Linux Kernel 4.2.0 for Surface Pro 3
Ubuntu got updated to 15.10 and along came an updated kernel My previous post will not work with the provided patches so I had to apply the code changes by […]
Invoking a Rake Multitask in a loop
I am running selenium tests that I launch using a rake task. Recently I wanted to run a bunch on them concurrently every so often. The problem I ran into […]
Building and installing a patched ubuntu kernel for the surface pro 3
Some of you have been asking for this tutorial so I hope this is easy to follow. I am sort of repeating the instructions here Assumptions You have followed the […]
Dual boot Gnome Ubuntu 15.04 on a Surface Pro 3
update 6: I have rolled a new kernel surface-pro-3-linux-kernel-4.2.0-34.40 Good news everyone! the latest version of Ubuntu 15.04 works really good with the Surface Pro 3 Things that immediately work […]