I wanted to share how I set up autospec notifications on Ubuntu (Jaunty 9.04). I’m using XCFE but should work perfectly on Gnome as well.

I’ve come to following Ruby script for converting an avi to mp4, Nokia 5800 ready. Subtitles included and 2 pass (which means high quality results).

As many Rails developers I have some projects that I haven’t migrated to git yet. Those are still under Subversion and I manage its plugins with Piston. But what happen when you want to import a plugin hosted on a git repository? That the gem “piston” doesn’t work. The trick is that the last version [...]

Now I got a new server I had to migrate my old Subversion repository from the old server to the new one. Thanks to Subversion it was a cake easy task.

Installing the Ruby on Rails blog engine Mephisto should be an easy task. However, I found this trickier than I expected.