The last few months and particularly in the last few days (beginning of July) saw a marked increase in global SSH brute force attacks. This article presents a Ruby DenyHosts plugin that will scan all contact emails for the attacker and notify the ISP with an excerpt from your SSHD log file.

This article is a follow-up to my previous article on using git as a front-end for Subversion. That article focused on the issue of git-svn not being able to dcommit upstream to a Subversion repository when sub-modules are present. This article presents a working solution using Git's little mentioned sub-projects.

Do you manage your Rails Plugins via svn:externals? Thinking of switching to Git but are concerned that Git lacks a direct equivalent of svn:externals? In this article I present a work-around or even IMHO a better solution than SVN's svn:externals.

Ruby performance issues under Windows and Cygwin. An investigation, alternatives and a discovery that Ruby runs faster under a Linux virtual machine in VMWare under windows than it does natively under Windows.

This article details my experience in employing the use of Google Maps in pantherFotos.com. Having little experience in JavaScript and coming from a Delphi software development background I wanted to employ some degree of object orientation and code re-use in my solution