ConFoo is currently looking for web professionals with deep understanding of PHP, Java, Ruby, Python, DotNet, HTML5, Databases, Cloud Computing, Security and Mobile development to share their skills and experience at the next ConFoo. Submit your proposals between August 26th and September 22nd.

ConFoo is a conference for developers that has built a reputation as a prime destination for exploring new technologies, diving deeper into familiar topics, and experiencing the best of community and culture.

• ConFoo 2014 will be hosted on February 26-28 in Montreal, at the Hilton Bonaventure Hotel.
• We take good care of our speakers by covering most expenses including travel, accommodation, lunch, full conference ticket, etc.
• Presentations are 35min + 10min for questions, …

In Part 1 of "SFTP virtual users with ProFTPD and Rails", I introduced ProFTPD's virtual users and presented my annotated proftpd.conf that I used to integrate virtual users with a Rails application. Here in Part 2, I'll show how we generate virtual user credentials, how we display them to the user, as well as our SftpUser ActiveRecord model that does the heavy lifting.

Let's start at the top with the SFTP credentials UI. Our app's main workflow actually has users doing most of their uploads through a sweet Plupload widget. So, by default, the SFTP functionality is hidden behind a simple button sitting to the right of the Plupload widget:

The user can click that button to open the SFTP UI, or the Plupload …

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My take on the good, the bad, and the ugly of our Winter season, beside all the snow I’ve shoveled and blown to get in and out of my driveway, is:

The Good?

February brought us MySQL 5.6 GA (General Availability) and Ruby 2.0.0-p0. Mega thanks to the MySQL and Ruby teams! By the way, if you’ve always wanted to know a little about Ruby without a great deal of effort, you should check this awesome little 20 minute Ruby tutorial. Naturally, the best …

I recently worked on a Rails 3.2 project that used the sweet PLupload JavaScript/Flash upload tool to upload files to the web app. To make it easier for users to upload large and/or remote files to the app, we also wanted to let them upload via SFTP. The catch was, our users didn't have SFTP accounts on our server and we didn't want to get into the business of creating and managing SFTP accounts. Enter: ProFTPD and virtual users.

ProFTPD's virtual users concept allows you to point ProFTPD at a SQL database for your user and group authentication. This means SFTP logins don't need actual system logins (although you can mix and match if you want). Naturally, this is perfect for dynamically creating and destroying SFTP accounts. …

ConFoo is one of the most important web developer-oriented conferences. ConFoo 2013 will be held on February 25 through March 1 in Montreal, Canada.

We just opened call for papers and we are looking for the best PHP, Java, Ruby, DotNet,HTML5 experts who are willing to share their knowledge with the Canadian community. Candidates can submit proposals until September 23. Consult the call for papers page for details and to start submitting. That page also explains what expenses ConFoo can cover for speakers. You can also get advice on how to write proposals.

The call for papers is public, meaning that all proposals get published on the website for others to vote and comment on. This approach allows the organizers to pick subjects that have …

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I wanted to share a recent issue with stock Ruby on Centos6.

We run a Rails application that connects to a MySQL datastore. We're in a datacenter transformation and we deployed the application to our new datacenter though the MySQL datastore is at the other datacenter. As you can see there is about a 35ms distance between the application and the MySQL instance.



[root@host]# ping 172.x.y.19
PING 172.x.y.19 (172.x.y.19) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 172.x.y.19: icmp_seq=1 ttl=253 time=32.6 ms
64 bytes from 172.x.y.19: icmp_seq=2 ttl=253 time=38.1 ms
64 bytes from 172.x.y.19: icmp_seq=3 ttl=253 time=36.0 ms
^C
--- 172.x.y.19 ping statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 3 received, 0% packet loss, time 2751ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 32.656/35.600/38.101/2.250 ms


We started the Rails application up though it just was not …

In this tutorial I will describe how to setup gitorious on Ubuntu 11.10. Gitorious – a Ruby on Rails web application – can be used to conclude git projects in an easy to manage user interface. In the README of the gitorious repository I found the evidence “One of the main challenges in Gitorious is its installation process. It is anything but trivial.” – It appears correct During the installation I got some errors by the sphinx search engine and some ruby gems. You will find the workarounds in this tutorial.

Contents

• 1 software installation
  • 1.1 Required packages
  • …

We’ve seen the rise of open source software in the enterprise and also beyond the IT industry, but the real keys to openness and its advantages in today’s technology world — where efficient use of cloud computing and supporting services are paramount — exist in open application programming interfaces, or APIs.

Open source software continues to be a critical part of software development, systems administration, IT operations and more, but much of the action in leveraging modern cloud computing and services-based infrastructures centers on APIs. Open APIs are the new open source.

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