Uncategorized – Carlos Roque

December 9, 2020

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…

July 2, 2018

I have been using Ubuntu Gnome for a long time. Then ubuntu decided to ditch unity for Gnome, at first…

November 2, 2017

Due to encoding limitation in DP2, sometimes it is better to replace some common special characters by their macro equivalent.…

November 17, 2016

A friend on mine tells the next story from his college days. Apart from being hilarious, I think it is…

April 27, 2016

Good news! As of Ubuntu 16.04 and linux kernel 4.5, there is no need to create a custom kernel for…

April 14, 2016

I was in need to calculate the size of the output of Base64.strict_encode64. I wanted to get this value to…

April 7, 2016

Ubuntu got updated to 15.10 and along came an updated kernel My previous post will not work with the provided…

December 3, 2015

I am running selenium tests that I launch using a rake task. Recently I wanted to run a bunch on…

May 20, 2015

Some of you have been asking for this tutorial so I hope this is easy to follow. I am sort…

April 25, 2015

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…