POLi

Dear Virgin Australia, I recently booked some tickets through your website.  Your website didn't seem to think 16 digits was enough for a VISA credit card, so I proceeded to pay using POLi. As a computer scientist, I am offended that POLi works like a virus, taking over your browser when entering sensitive financial information, …

RedMine on CSE, part 2

So, after my last post, I pretty much had RedMine running under webrick.  Wasn't too bad.  RedMine looked pretty cool.  As advertised, it was Trac with more out-of-the-box.  Great.  Now I wanted it to tweak it and run it under CGI, as that's all I can use (as of 2011s1) on the CSE web server. …

RedMine on CSE

So, I tried to install RedMine on CSE today.  I've installed Trac on CSE before, so I thought it would be as straightforward.  Boy, was I wrong. Problem #1: ruby 1.8.6 or 1.8.7 is required, but only 1.8.5 (and 1.9) is installed on the cgi servers Solution #1: Compile and install ruby 1.8.7 locally. Problem …