Dive into the archives.
- Vendor/Gems and Rake
Today, I hit a little bump along the road of having a nice, simple checkout/run path in the Rails project I’m working on. The problem occurs when you don’t have a gem installed on the system, instead unpacking it into vendor/gems. In order for those to be included in the environment, you need [...]
- A Case of the Mondays
Everyone knows you’ll have bad days but the good thing is that they generally don’t happen too often. If they did, you’d have a tough time getting out of bed each day, heading to the office. Today though was a bad day. Mistakes were made last week and the bill came due [...]
- Simple Mongrel Handler
I have a project at work which I just need to break down a given URL and insert data into a database, nothing more, nothing less. Right now for convenience sake, I’m using JBoss, mainly because it was already setup and ready to go. That’s way too much stuff for this so I [...]
- Celebrating Failure
A week or so ago, Tara Hunt posted a thought-provoking blog entry. That isn’t really a shock since most of her pieces live in my browser tabs, waiting for some sort of response. Invariably, too much time passes before I comment and the moment is gone. Hopefully that isn’t the case for [...]
- Facebook Platform as the Evolution of the Portal?
David Sacks makes this argument in a recent guest post on TechCrunch. He’s see the evolution coming from the browsing of portals to search-based portals and now to a portal which your social graph pushes information to you. He sees the Facebook Platform as the example of the last step.
Obviously I’m a little [...]
- Log4Twitter
Being on the Twitter API development list is a good way to hear about new little apps before everyone else. Case in point, Log4Twitter. It’s an Appender to log4j which is pretty much the standard logging component for any Java project.
This wouldn’t be for debug logging or information logging. I think it [...]
- Creating a Web Framework with Conventions
Joe Gregorio has an awesome post detailing the work needed to create a Web framework with some very nice conventions.
They key point of adding ‘conventions’ is to take a load off the user. You need to actually remove two kinds of load, cognitive and manual. Cognitive load is the number of concepts you need to [...]
- Memcached
A few memcached-related blog posts over the last couple of days.
First, Tobias Luetke gives the the secret to memcached. It boils down to being as specific as you can with your memcached requests. In his example, part of the key was a version number which gets revved any time an update to a [...]
- Ignite Where
Looks like some very cool talks at the Ignite Where day during Where 2.0 next week. Really wish I could have made it to Where 2.0 but I think more travel would not have made the domestic life very easy.
- Some Random Ruby / Rails Goodness
Here’s a few Ruby / Rails things I’ve seen around the Web the last few days. All are pretty cool…
Evan Weaver shows off some MySQL configurations for Rails.
Ilya Grigorik creates a simple RSS aggregator in 26 lines of Ruby code.
Here’s a custom Mongrel handler to create an XML-RPC server. I’ve been digging a [...]
