Irene Ros

I’m still celebrating.
Here’s a desktop for anyone who needs one more reminder of how great they feel :D

Right click me to save

Thanks for the font!

I am incredibly proud to announce the launch of the latest project from the Visual Communications Lab that I am lucky to be a part of:

Here’s a little embedded version of one I made in the spirit of our political times:

Go play!

I have recently been incredibly interested in electronics following a completely accidental discovery of make magazine and instructables. A good friend of mine heard of this interesting Circuit Building workshop that was held at Gallery 119 and let by Jessica Rylan.

I figured I’ll give it a try and I really had the best time!
We built a Touch Sensitive Noise Generator (you can see some of the ones Jessica sells at Flower Electronics which turned out to be incredibly entertaining!

Here’s a quick pic of my little creation:

Here’s an audio sample of what this thing can do.

Recently to begin the process of alpha testing our application jointly with our customers we wanted to add an additional layer of security and block/allow various IP ranges. Having done most of our configuration in Apache, we saw no reason not to do so with mod_authz_host.

And so we set a couple of allows with:
Allow from address

And everything worked wonderfully on our end. Until the customer tried to access the site and complained about latency beyond our wildest imagination… a minute to load the homepage?! It looked so zippy to us….
In any case, many hours later my teammate realized that it was apache’s access control processing causing the delay! We switched to using iptables and everything is back to normal… strange eh?

We recently upgraded from ruby 1.8.6 and rails 2.0.2 to 1.8.7/2.1.0 respectively. This guide was incredibly helpful but one small caveat I ran into after the upgrade was related to postgresql.

It seemed that the new postgres_adapter.rb didn’t properly quote several of the commands: drop database and create database.
For example:

def drop_database(name) #:nodoc:
  execute "DROP DATABASE IF EXISTS #{name}"
end

should be something like:

def drop_database(name) 
  execute "DROP DATABASE IF EXISTS \"#{name}\""
end

And same goes for create_databse.

It looks like there are fixes in edge for create_database and drop_database