http://www.mokisystems.com/blog Addressing such topics as: web programming, design, ruby on rails, cake php, postgresql, linux, seo Tue, 30 Sep 2008 20:04:22 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Recently Moki Systems was invited to teach, at Dixie State College, the first class in a series as part of the SEED Dixie program. (http://www.seedutah.com/) I've uploaded the slides (in Microsoft PowerPoint format) that were used during the class in case any class members want to refer to them. Feel ... http://www.mokisystems.com/blog/search-engine-optimization-class/ This tutorial will guide you through creating a map using the Google Maps API that will be dynamically populated with markers as the user zooms or scrolls around the map. For this example, we're going to create and use a generic Location model. Geocoding Your Addresses Geocoding will translate an address into its ... http://www.mokisystems.com/blog/add-markers-to-a-google-map-with-ruby-on-rails-and-json/ I found several solutions after browsing around google trying to find a multi-file uploader built around php. Most of these solutions for multi-file uploading fit into one of these three categories. Use Flash to upload the images. (The browser only supports one image at a time) - SWFUpload Use Javascript ... http://www.mokisystems.com/blog/ajax-multi-file-upload-with-php-iframe-javascript/ VMWare releasing a free version of their server virtualization product opened up some possibilities for us. Moki Systems had multiple servers performing a variety of tasks but there were things we didn't have. We didn't have a split between production and development servers and we didn't have good utilization. Low ... http://www.mokisystems.com/blog/how-were-using-vmware-server/ Recently I was trying to optimize my code a little and needed a quick way to compare the speed of different code snippets. Of course Rails comes with the Benchmark module for doing just that. It is, however, in my opinion a bit clunky for quick tests. Look at all ... http://www.mokisystems.com/blog/ruby-timing-shortcut/ We're in the process of converting our website to Radiant CMS, and one of the new things on the site is a "Blog Blurbs" section at the bottom of every page that lists our latest blog post. Our blog is in Wordpress, so I setup the RSS Reader extension in ... http://www.mokisystems.com/blog/fragment-caching-with-radiant-cms/ Over the past many years I have been involved in projects requiring localization into many different languages. One issue with this is how data is stored in the database. As we support and help various customers with Postgresql related database issues, we still find users who are encoding ... http://www.mokisystems.com/blog/postgresql-encoding-utf8/ SVN is great for keeping our projects under tight control. Occasionally, we have the need to get something back that was deleted in a previous revision. So I can remember how to do it next time, here it is: $ svn copy -r 1234 url/to/deleted/file path/to/recovered/file This will copy the ... http://www.mokisystems.com/blog/recover-a-deleted-file-in-subversion/ This is a quick post to possibly save someone some time when they google for restoring mysql data files. The gist of it is, don't try to copy InnoDB files directly into your data directory, it won't work. Background Sometime back I wiped my development box clean and reinstalled the OS ... http://www.mokisystems.com/blog/restoring-mysql-databases/ This isn't intended to be a complete tutorial, but for those of us who have previously only run Slony on Linux, this might be a helpful post. Install Slony Configure pgAdmin file/options and set the slony path G:\Program Files (x86)\PostgreSQL\8.2\share Create the master db create the slave db Initialize the master database. From the command ... http://www.mokisystems.com/blog/setting-up-slony-on-windows/