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- Conditional Association Loading
Obie shows a very cool way to handle ActiveRecord loading an Association Proxy. By overriding the loaded? method, you can include business logic to automatically return true that the proxy was loaded instead of hitting the database.
Obie uses the example of not creating the association proxy for a neighborhood when the population of the [...]
- The Rise of Mini-Apps
I’ve had Dave Thomas’ post about REST and the RADAR architecture open in one of my tabs since it was published a few weeks ago. I kept meaning to blog about it since it seemed very insightful with regards to the uses of REST as well as challenges ahead.
One issue that needs to be [...]
- Advanced Rails Training
I’m sitting in my hotel room in Dallas, waiting to meet the other folks from work who are here for the Advanced Rails training put on by The Pragmatic Studio. Definitely should be a fun week!
- Scaling Twitter, the Talk
I have a feeling this presentation by Blaine Cook will be the most attended session at the upcoming Silicon Valley Ruby Conference.
More thoughts on the whole Twitter / Rails thing:Friction(less) Rails
Twitter: Service vs. Platform
Twitter, Rails, Seaside, Respect
Rails and Scaling with Multiple DatabasesThere are some more but I’m saving those for a longer post.
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- Twitter, Rails and Scaling
A little tempest in a teapot the past day or so has been the interview Twitter developer, Alex Payne did. In it, he somewhat calls out Rails for some of the performance issues Twitter has had. Of course, this causes some to jump on the Rails can’t scale bandwagon but I think that [...]
- ELNK is a friend you are following
Today, EarthLink announced Arlington, VA as the next city we’ll be setting up a Wi-Fi network for. I didn’t find out via the usual all-staff email, instead, I found out via Twitter, ELNK.
This is a pretty awesome thing and I can only hope the folks in corporate communications will use it effectively [...]
- Losing a Customer
I don’t know Peter Kim personally but I’m very sad he decided to cancel his EarthLink account. He was a customer for over twelve years, starting with Mindspring before it merged into EarthLink.
The reason he gave though is haunting me. Here’s two little snippets:The main reason I finally closed it? Because after [...]
- Rebuilding Topix
Over the weekend, Topix reinvented itself. The initial verdict from me is very positive, the home page is nice and clean, inviting you to input your zip code and get your local news. What’s really interesting to me though is the process by which Topix rebuilt itself.
Rich Skrenta, CEO of Topix, blogged about [...]
- Keep Moving Forward
Last night, I took the kids to see Meet the Robinson’s. I normally don’t find inspiration in the movies I see with the kids but this one was a bit different. The story itself is your normal hero’s journey and ends predictably well.
The part I really liked though was the theme [...]
