Ruby on Rails/ActiveSupport: To delegate or not to delegate
This is an account of my adventure with delegation from problem to apparent solution to bug in ActiveSupport to you're doing it wrong!
Ruby Auto-Responder for Postfix/Vmail
Not knowing perl, I set out to write my own script in Ruby to send auto-responses from e-mail addresses setup in a vmail folder structure. You don't need to use postfix, just have the 'new' folder where new messages are stored.
Keep ssh sessions from timing out
The Ubuntu Blog has a nice lil' article about keeping SSH sessions alive.
It basically boils down to editing your /etc/ssh/ssh_config file and adding the following:
/etc/ssh/ssh_config
ServerAliveInterval 5
The number is the number of seconds to send the small keep alive which keeps the connection open. Ubuntu Blog suggests changing it from 5 to 240 or 300 (4 or 5 minutes).
Notepad++ Color Configurator and styler.xml
Before I start talking about colors, let's talk font. Consolas That's all you need to know. By far the best programming font. Get it. Use it. Love it.