Faker 1.0 released
Earlier this week I released version 1.0 of the Faker gem. It's been about 4 years since the initial release of the gem, and the API has been fairly stable for the last couple of years, so I figured it was a good time to make the jump to 1.0. :) This release finishes the...
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...
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...
Unwrapping UploadJuicer
It says something about the sorry state of my blogging lately that my blog is the last place I’m announcing my latest project, Juicer. :) It’s a handy service for offloading image uploading and resizing from your web app. Now you don’t have to tie up your server to handle long uploads or to do...
