Archives for: October 2009

Deploying to Staging and Production Environments via Capistrano

by David Orkin on Oct.26, 2009, under Ubuntu, Capistrano, Ruby

Ok, so I admit it. Im late to the game as far as using capistrano for deployment of my rails applications. But I figured, today is a nice rainy day and a great opportunity to give this a shot. Below is the play by play for getting capistrano set up to wo… more »
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Displaying Japanese in Adobe Reader 9.1.2 on Linux

by David Orkin on Oct.08, 2009, under PDF

Wanted to do a quick follow up post for those users who need asian languages to be displayed in Adobe Reader 9.1.2 for linux. The application will tell you to go to the Adobe Reader - Asian and Extended Language Font Packs page but you notice that at lea… more »
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Installing Adobe Reader 9.1.2 (acroread) on Ubuntu 9.0.4

by David Orkin on Oct.08, 2009, under Ubuntu, PDF

Where there are some free alternatives for viewing pdfs on linux more »
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Using Django to Serve Static Files in Development

by David Orkin on Oct.06, 2009, under Python, Django

So by default Django doesnt serve static files because, well, it doesn't serve them as well as a webserver like Apache would. There is a nice piece of documentation on that available here. more »
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Template Inheritance in Django (aka The Django equivalent of a Rails layout)

by David Orkin on Oct.06, 2009, under Python, Django, Ruby on Rails

So I'm coming over to the django community from Ruby On Rails, and so far, Im fairly happy with Django as a framework. The python framework I initially used was pylons (note - I am hardly a pylons jedi) but one thing in particular is bugging me. The lack… more »
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