Zak Scott

Travail is an open sourced application written in Ruby on Rails and released under the New BSD license.

It’s a developing application that is beta use on Vermont Job List.

The source code for Travail can be found on github.

Openproman is a developing Rails application that is designed for group and singular project management. You will be able to download this software and run it on your local Rails box or set it up on a private server for use in a group intranet.

This projects main goal is to provide my team(s) with an easy to use and cheap solution to project management and financing. There is definitely room for improvement, however this has been an ongoing project of mine and I am dedicated to making it into a solid & usable product.

You can find the source code on github.

This is a basic script I find useful for whenever I just want to strip subversion from an application’s working copy.

#!/bin/sh
echo "recursively removing .svn folders from"
pwd
rm -rf `find . -type d -name .svn`

I’ve just recently started folding again, and back with a passion thanks to the playstation 3’s built in folding application.

The Life with Playstation app is truly great, in that it combines weather, news and folding@home all into 1 place. It also features a time-relative sound track that will continuously play chill tunes whilst you’re donating your machine to a greater cause. Similar to the Wii’s weather channel there is a giant globe that you can spin and see various cities around the globe to view their weather and recent news (via Google news). The coolest part about this is that the globe is real-time and displays current weather patterns as well as daylight!!

What are you waiting for?? Go out there and get a PS3 and start contributing with the most dominant folding machine yet!

Here are Folding@Home stats for my PS3.

Also check out extremeoverclocking.com stats!

The google data apis unleash an epic amount of ownage paired with google apps. However until now there hasn’t been a surefire way to interface with them via Ruby.. that is until now.

Jeff Fischer’s gdata-ruby-util just recently hit the 1.0 mark, giving thousands of Ruby dev’s the ability to easily use the GData API.

Gdata-ruby-util is straight up sexy, and can easily be used within Rails. I’m giddy with anticipation to try this out myself, and already plan on using it with a client in production.

Utilizing google app’s as a developer tool to speed up development is as “agile” as it gets. Let me just say, thank you Jeff. For those who’ve already experimented with this in Ruby and other languages: cheers.

Just upgraded wp to 2.7.1 from 2.6.x! The new admin dashboard is very sexy.. kudos to the wp dev’s.

Hurray for secure interneting and progress!

Joy, I finally have my web server configured exactly how I want it.

After wrestling with Ubuntu 8.04 server all evening, which I eventually managed to get working fine asside from a few annoyances. Such as it not loading my services on boot (apache2, mysql, ssh) and apache hogging a ton of memory.

I’ve decided to go with the latest CentOS5 image after all, and compromised hard drive space for lean memory ninja-ness. As you can tell everything is working just fine!

Cheers to the Brightbox team for their work on supporting Ubuntu and Passenger, much appreciated!

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