TechScreen Revised

The challenge is to display an image and the title of you most recent blogger.com blog post.

Normally there are multiple projects on a SVN server, which shall not be accessible by all users who have access to the server. The goal is now to define on a per-project-basis the users who are granted access.

One of the logical volumes of an Ubuntu Server machine needs to be resized (enlarged) in order to be able to handle the amount of data to be stored. This should happen without having to shut down the web server which is currently running on this machine.

With CakePHP, a MVC-based PHP framework, it is usually very easy to retrieve data from the database table underlying a specific model, as well as in case the tables are connected with each other through their respective model declarations, as these tables are then joined automatically. However, when one wants to join multiple tables within one query and they are not connected through their models (which occurs quite often), then there nevertheless has to be a way to join the desired tables to get the respective data. The goal is to find a way in CakePHP to accomplish this task.

Out there are a myriad of different pieces of technology exactly for this purpose. Some of them are cheap, others expensive, some are large, others are small. Some are produced professionally, others rather amateurishly. What to choose?

The goal is to build applications for mobile devices using well known standard web technologies like JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3, instead of device-specific languages such as Java or Objective-C.

Behavior-driven development is a specialized version of test-driven development which focuses on behavioral specification of software units. Acceptance tests are written using the standard agile framework of a User story: "As a [role] I want [feature] so that [benefit]". Acceptance criteria should be written in terms of scenarios and implemented as classes: Given [initial context], when [event occurs], then [ensure some outcomes].

Privacy on the Internet is a growing concern, especially as more and more people are using it for their professional and personal business, socializing, and entertainment. Information sent over the internet or by email is not necessarily secure. You don't know how many servers the message will pass through between your computer and the recipient's, or who has access to those servers.

What user-contributed software ("gems") helps professionalize RoR?

The aim is to display social media buttons on each image in the jQuery colorbox view.