I went to Florida for my Christmas holiday. In order to not stress out the cat too much, the cat stayed home rather than go to a kennel. No professional pet sitter was available where I live. So I opted to create a home surveillance system from hardware I had lying around and free software.
This post is a bit overdue considering the project for which I did this was completed months ago. I finally got around to documenting it. Magento’s product list view lets customers add products to the shopping cart one at a time. The client wanted customers to be able to add multiple products to the shopping cart simultaneously. Given the time constraints for the projects, I created an ad hoc AJAX method to accomplish this feature request.
So Greg Goodwin has a very good post on installing Ruby on Rails with Passenger on a Media Temple dedicated virtual server. However, there were some post-install gotchas I ran into. I don’t recall running into these problems before. Perhaps I did and solved them last time, but did not write the solutions down. Well now I’m going to.
I wouldn’t have believed it, unless I saw it with my own eyes, but I think I saw my first Cash for Clunkers scam. I’m not 100% sure if that’s what it is, but the cynic in me thinks so. Take a look for yourself.