I’ve decided to consolidate my different blogs about technology and skateboarding into techskater.com. I’ve migrated a majority of my content to this blog, but need to update all my pages in Google (> 300) to redirect to techskater. You’ll notice that this link about GoDaddy on Rails @ db75.com (my old blog) will redirect you [...]

This was the error I received when deploying a Capistrano deployment from github. Keep in mind to even get your submodules deployed you’ll need to add the following var to deploy.rb:
set :git_enable_submodules, 1
It turns out that I had git 1.5.2.5 and submodule support did not come until 1.5.3. So I was forced to upgrade. The [...]

If you’re working with Magento Commerce you’ll most likely want to remove index.php from the URL when you go live. Or maybe you don’t care so feel free to stop reading.
This post addresses all the things you can do to remove index.php, but let me touch on the items that worked for me:
- From Magento’s [...]

A new Guapo Skateboards site will be dropping soon. In the meantime you can check out the press release. Props to Bart Damer for bringing this to life. Bart does all the Guapo deck graphics as well as some incredible motion graphics work. I help Guapo with their online technology needs and bringing all the [...]

This was a beast of an error to get around, but finally I did in a not so clean manner. I’ve been working with Rails Engines and the approach was to make all controllers in my engine path “unloadable” per the last comment in this thread:
http://dev.rubyonrails.org/ticket/6001
Not the cleanest approach, but it will work until I [...]

My late New Year’s resolution is to start blogging again (it’s almost been a year since I posted here!). I will be consolidating a couple blogs that talk about technology and skateboarding and consolidating them into one. Looking forward to networking with other techies/skaters in the near future. In the meantime feel free to drop [...]