Monthly Archives: December 2006

Since now seems to be the time for making predictions…

Let me make a few of my own “The internet during 2007″ predictions. 2007 will be the year of the format wars. Differing schemas of XML will battle it out for the spot as the predominant method of sharing data in 2007. Because one size will never fit all we’ll probably end up with 2 [...]

So I’m trying to solve a rather difficult problem…

I have X number of data objects with up to about min 45,000, max 50,000 possible values associated with each object. I know… Don’t ask (couldn’t tell you anyways). Now to be able to do this in MySQL is… well… possible… but absurd. I’m thinking of trying out the approach I’ve mused about here. It [...]

mod_fcgid and the cfgi gem for rails with apache2 on fedora core 6

Because its not readily apparent when you’re concentrating on learning rails… I’m posting this here. While trying to get rails running on Fedora Core 6 (FC6) I was running into not being able to compile the ruby fcgi gem. What gives, right? mod_fcgid (what FC6 comes with) is supposed to be binary compatible with mod_fastcgi. [...]