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Jekyll: Pagination, Archives, and Excerpts

I recently converted this blog to jekyll — I figured since I had to move my slicehost slices elsewhere anyway, I might as well ditch wordpress and play with something new. It's been a bit of adventure getting the site rendered by jekyll to match the URL structure I had in place with wordpress, so...

Heroku at RailsConf in Baltimore

Baltimore, Here We Come! Next week is RailsConf in Baltimore, and Heroku is coming out in force. There will be about a dozen of us attending sessions, manning our booth, and chatting with Rubyists, so definitely keep an eye out for us! To make it a bit...

Pricing Experiment Follow Up

Thanks so much to those of you who helped me with my pricing experiment. I feel it was a success, with a lot of great feedback. Before I launched the survey I had a price in mind, but I wanted to see what the prevailing opinion would be on what the price should be without...

Pricing Experiment Follow Up

Thanks so much to those of you who helped me with my pricing experiment. I feel it was a success, with a lot of great feedback. Before I launched the survey I had a price in mind, but I wanted to see what the prevailing opinion would be on what the price should be without...

Pricing Experiment Follow Up

Thanks so much to those of you who helped me with my pricing experiment. I feel it was a success, with a lot of great feedback. Before I launched the survey I had a price in mind, but I wanted to see what the prevailing opinion would be on what the price should be without...

A Pricing Experiment

Today I read about determining pricing by surveying your customers, and it just so happens that I have a new product ready for pricing, so I thought I’d try it out.I am ready to release the OAuth Rails Kit, which gives you a good example of how to integrate Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn into your...

A Pricing Experiment

Today I read about determining pricing by surveying your customers, and it just so happens that I have a new product ready for pricing, so I thought I'd try it out. I am ready to release the OAuth Rails Kit, which gives you a good example of how to integrate Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn into...

A Pricing Experiment

Today I read about determining pricing by surveying your customers, and it just so happens that I have a new product ready for pricing, so I thought I'd try it out. I am ready to release the OAuth Rails Kit, which gives you a good example of how to integrate Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn into...

Defaulting to Ruby 1.9.2

Heroku is fully behind Ruby 1.9.2 as the new gold standard for production Ruby apps. Over the past few months, we’ve seen more and more developers move to the Bamboo 1.9.2 stack. It’s fast, stable, and increasingly sees excellent support ...

Auto-spawning Delayed Job Workers

I’ve been interested in simplifying lately…. using Chef (solo) to configure boxes, switching to Postgres from MySQL to get decent text search without having to run sphinx, etc. My goal recently has been to cut down the number of moving parts in my deployments to make my life a little easier. So when a client...

Auto-spawning Delayed Job Workers

I've been interested in simplifying lately.... using Chef (solo) to configure boxes, switching to Postgres from MySQL to get decent text search without having to run sphinx, etc. My goal recently has been to cut down the number of moving parts in my deployments to make my life a little easier. So when a client...

Auto-spawning Delayed Job Workers

I've been interested in simplifying lately.... using Chef (solo) to configure boxes, switching to Postgres from MySQL to get decent text search without having to run sphinx, etc. My goal recently has been to cut down the number of moving parts in my deployments to make my life a little easier. So when a client...