Android Troubleshooting: App Crash on multiple orientation change

More of a note to my future self when developing android than anything else, since this is quite a specific corner case, but who knows, maybe it helps someone else out there 🙂   Problem An app I wrote seemed to be crashing randomly when a user did a orientation change (i.e. changed from landscape to portrait … Continue reading Android Troubleshooting: App Crash on multiple orientation change

Lessons learned: migrating Ruby on Rails app to a private server

I needed to migrate a ruby on rails app from amazon web services to a privately owned hosting service. AWS has it's own method of building and provisioning rails app (basically by using their in house tool called "beanstalk"), so provisioning and migrating the data to a normal, private server meant I took some quick notes … Continue reading Lessons learned: migrating Ruby on Rails app to a private server