July 15, 2011: Stale Links
The problem with sitting on these daily link posts is that the links go out of date. Sigh. Here are some links. Twitter I found a couple of things about this InfoQ article about Twitter’s infrastructure odd. I was expecting it to be a bit more of a Rails hit-piece, frankly, so it was nice...
July 15, 2011: Stale Links
The problem with sitting on these daily link posts is that the links go out of date. Sigh. Here are some links. Twitter I found a couple of things about this InfoQ article about Twitter’s infrastructure odd. I was expecting it to be a bit more of a Rails hit-piece, frankly, so it was nice...
It’s Time To Double Up (Using Amazon’s RDS Read Replication Database Servers With Heroku For Master-Slave Replication)
Heroku is great for rapid application development but if you want to run multiple databases it doesn’t provide any options. Running multiple databases in a master-slave orientation can provide an elegant solution to many scaling issues. This can ...
Amazon EC2, HPC Edition
We have been proponents of Amazon’s EC2 service from the very beginning and – warning: shameless self-promotion – have built some pretty impressive applications on top of it. Check out the Sweety High social networking site, for example. No...
Blocking Amazon advertisements
Dealing with advertisements is a part of life, from watching TV to running free apps on the iPhone. It’s made Google the envy of all tech companies. Fortunately for those who want to minimize exposure to them, there are some options such as DVR for the TV and Adblock Plus for Firefox. I haven’t read...
Double Shot #493
There are days I need to remind myself that I’m happier on the open source side of the fence.
Infomaki – Open source usability testing tool written in Rails, from the NY Public Library. (via Konigi)
Ruby Code Quality and Metric_Fu – Some notes on getting the current metric_fu to run properly.
Why I use Safari for Development...
