http://www.sukria.net/en Being a debian geek, that's a way of life! Wed, 10 Dec 2008 10:01:11 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Hey planet, it's been a very long time since I took my e-pen to write something down here, my work is taking pretty much all my time nowdays. Anyway, it seems that there is sort of a polemic rising here and there about RubyGems and its packaging philosophy. I'd like to ... http://www.sukria.net/en/archives/2008/12/10/my-two-cents-about-the-rubygems-polemic/ If you're using (Apache2, mongrel and mod_proxy) for your Rails application you might have realized that when a bad HTTP request is performed over your app, mongrel triggers an exception : $ mar nov 04 14:45:44 +0000 2008: HTTP parse error, malformed request (127.0.0.1): # At first glance, this could sound ... http://www.sukria.net/en/archives/2008/11/04/how-to-make-sure-mongrel-will-handle-bad-http-requests-or-how-to-avoid-502-errors/ Quoting YoolinkPro: We are proud to announce that Yoolink Pro’s Beta test will officially start at the Web 2.0 Expo in Berlin, the 21st of October. Come and meet us there to discover the service! More than a hundred companies signed in for the Beta test. We are currently sending Beta ... http://www.sukria.net/en/archives/2008/10/14/yoolinkpro-beta-to-start-at-web-20-expo-berlin/ A new version of Coat is available on CPAN, it's the version 0.333 which provides 3 important bugfixes: You can now safely use multipe coercions for the same subtype (thanks to Rached Ben Mustapha for discovering this issue) A major bug was found by Andy Yatz in Coat's inheritance mechanism. This bug ... http://www.sukria.net/en/archives/2008/09/27/coat-0333-released/ A new release of Coat is available on the CPAN: Coat 0.331 It fixes a bug that appeared recently, when I added the Moose-compatible type constraint mechanism, when an undefined value was set to an attribute, it was set to 1 instead of undef. This bug has been found by Stéphane Pontier ... http://www.sukria.net/en/archives/2008/07/04/coat-0331-released/ It's been a looong time since I blogged here. Perhaps I should write more frequently so you won't start thinking I died silently ;). I'm not dead. It's just that I've started a company a couple of months ago and that does take a lot of my time. It's pretty exciting, ... http://www.sukria.net/en/archives/2008/07/04/one-week-of-holydays/ A new major release of Coat - the diet-Moose - is now available and provides support for type constraints. It's now possible to define types, subtypes and enums as well as setting up coercions in Coat classes, in the exact same syntax as with Moose. http://www.sukria.net/en/archives/2008/05/11/mooses-type-constraints-in-coat/ I've uploaded a new major release of TinyMCE into sid, the package jumps from the 2.x branch to the new 3.x one. For the record, packages that use TinyMCE should rather depend on that packge instead of shipping the sources itself. http://www.sukria.net/en/archives/2008/05/09/tinymce-308-entering-debian/ Yes I know, it’s like a year since the last development release of Backup Manager has been published, I should be ashamed of such a huge idleness. But actually, If you ask me, I’m not. Instead of writing long lines of haiku to apologize for being so late at releasing, here ... http://www.sukria.net/en/archives/2008/04/15/backup-manager-077-is-released/ Dear lazyweb, this sunday afternoon, I opened BackupManager's Bugzilla and started squashing bugs. There was 54 bugs opened that requested a review. 15 of them are now tagged "pending" (meaning they're closed in SVN and will be shiped with the next release). All of the patches submited - that made sense ... http://www.sukria.net/en/archives/2008/03/16/the-road-to-backup-manager-077/