Reencoded has recently posted an article featuring 10 tools help designers to layout a grid using CSS. This should be a time saver for those creating a layout from scratch and want to free of table-based layout. Who uses that anyways? No, really I wanna know because everywhere I look people are using css for the layout of their pages.

A few weeks ago I wrote another article explaining how to install and run Atlassian JIRA in Ubuntu. Well, I was not quite satisfied with the results, so I tried another approach and it seems to be working better now as my previous JIRA installation was extremely slow and crashed due to Out of Memory errors.

So here are the steps:
1. Install Java

I use Atlassian JIRA as a tool to control my software development process, registering issues, tasks and bugs and planning development cycles.
So now that I switched to Ubuntu as development platform, I need to setup JIRA on my new Linux machine. I wrote down the steps I followed to achieve this.

1. Install Java
First of all, of course, install Java in your Ubuntu server and test the installation:

A few weeks ago I wrote an article on how to install Subversion and Apache in a Windows environment and another article about how to install those in a Linux environment.

A few weeks ago I wrote an article on how to install Subversion and Apache in a Windows environment. Today I decided to use Ubuntu as my development environment and somehow I felt that it would take many more steps to configure those in Linux than it took in Windows, so I wrote them down for future reference. Here are those steps:
1. Install apache2

After upgrading from Rails 2.0.2 to 2.3.5 my WEBrick server in NetBeans started printing the following message on its log and the application would not connect to the database.

The bundled mysql.rb driver has been removed from Rails 2.2. Please install the mysql gem and try again: gem install mysql.


I installed the refered gem but would still have the same problem when starting WEBrick, even after restart of the IDE.

After upgrading from Rails 2.0.2 to Rails 2.3.5 I got the following error message on startup of the server:

`send': undefined method `cache_template_extensions=' for ActionView::Base:Class (NoMethodError)

The solution is as simple as removing (or commenting out) the property 'cache_template_extensions' from 'configuration/environments/development.rb' as it no longer exists in rails 2.3.5.

The Firefox website now allows you to create a Collection (in a very slow site) of your favorite add-ons either to save for later reinstalling or sharing with everyone else. So I created two Collections (so far):

"SONAR is an open source software quality management tool, dedicated to continuously analyze and measure source code quality."

I downloaded and installed today the Netbeans 6.7 and for my surprise its IDE was in Portuguese. I prefer using the IDE in English, so I tried to change it using the way I remembered from previous versions, i.e. at the Tools menu. As it happens, it is not possible to change the language of the IDE through the interface, because it is based on the locale of your machine.