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GPS Tracker and Ruby on Rails

Murray-Mint — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 00:06:37 +0000

I’ve finally managed to get Ruby on Rails working in a development environment under Windows using FastCGI. It seems quite responsive with no problems yet. The first task I’ve put it to, is a new section of the site for GPS Tracking.

Insipired by Igloo in #slack and the work-in-progress tracker by Foxdie – trackmygps.co.uk, I have made my own version for this website. It’s just for a single user and only displays the current position and the previous 12 hours of data, but it appears to work quite well on a test trip I made to Uttoxeter and back.

It’s currently a bit clunky, using a laptop, 3G USB adapter and a Bluetooth GPS receiver; but hopefully next month when I get a 3G iPhone I’ll find some software that will work on it!

In the meantime, you can check out the tracker here: http://rails.spaff.co.uk

Downtime and reliability

Murray-Mint — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 12:28:54 +0000

Well it seems that Prometheus, the colocated server I share with WiseWashu is on it’s last legs. I think the IDE controller is beginning to die in it, which is somewhat of a problem, as it has IDE hard drives. Anyhow, I’ve reformatted it, which is the reason the downtime recently and it seems to have restored some life to the server.

We are planning to get a replacement called ‘Aurora’. It will be a quad-core Xeon with 4GB RAM. A slight upgrade from Prometheus! More updates on this as it comes!

A new look

Murray-Mint — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 01:23:23 +0000

So it’s about 5 years since my original site was created, and in that time it hasn’t changed much. Social networking has come about, the MyFaceTube generation have arrived and it’s all blogging, tagging and sharing.

I’ve finally given in and switched to WordPress for my website (It is STILL a website) and I’m just in the process of transferring all the old content across. The gallery has also been updated and is now running on zenphoto with LensPic integration. I’ll be adding album titles soon. The theme is modified from the publically available Techmania theme.

The old site is still available at http://dev.murray-mint.co.uk so if you do want to check out the old articles, etc. then they are still there.