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Requiring OmniAuth

A small note in the “in case I need this again” cat­egory. I’m writ­ing a Sinatra app and want to add Twit­ter OAuth for sign­ing in. A good way to do this appears to be with the omni­auth gem but I ran into an issue. require ‘oa-oauth’ is the doc­u­mented way to require the right […]

2011 08 31 Identity and Privacy Comments (0)

Syncing Google Calendar and Tungle

I came across this weird prob­lem recently, where my Tungle account (tungle.me/laurenwood) was only syn­chron­iz­ing some of the events on my Google cal­en­dar. I checked they were set to the right cal­en­dar (yes), marked as busy (yes), and still couldn’t find the answer. This is an issue that quite a few people have had. Apparently […]

2011 08 23 Rants Comments (0)

Manager Skills

Some­how I missed the news about Google’s Pro­ject Oxy­gen earlier this year. This was a large pro­ject that meas­ured what skills the most effect­ive man­agers at Google use, and the pit­falls poor man­agers fall into. As one might expect from Google, the res­ults are but­tressed by a ser­i­ous amount of data: over 10,000 answers about […]

2011 05 23 Project Management Comments (1)

Installing Debian

The next stage in the great pro­ject to migrate back from Debian from OpenSol­aris: installing Debian. Wow, it’s so much easier these days! Here are my ran­dom notes from the install. I chose the net­work install option and burned the .iso to a CD. Then I booted from the CD on the boot­loader (on a […]

2011 04 27 Comments (1)

Moving Blog Homes

Given the cur­rent state of OpenSol­aris (pre­cari­ous, judging by vari­ous posts I’ve seen over the last few months) I decided to move the base­ment devel­op­ment and blog host­ing machine back to Debian. I mostly use it for a couple of small Word­Press blogs, and try­ing out vari­ous things (the odd Django pro­ject, Ruby on Rails, […]

2011 04 21 WordPress Comments (0)

Internet Speed

I was reminded again today of the old adage that even when you think you know what the prob­lem prob­ably is, until you meas­ure it, you’re likely to be wrong. This applies par­tic­u­larly to factors that impede your inter­net speed. The ADSL inter­net band­width pack­age we signed up for, many moons ago, was 3 Mbps. I […]

2011 02 25 Comments (6)