October 2009
18 posts
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SimpleDB gotcha
dailyawswtf: While carefully reading through the AWS Customer Agreement we found this interesting paragraph: 5.8.2 […] We may delete, without liability of any kind, any of your Amazon SimpleDB Content that has not been accessed in the previous 6 months. Ouch! While SimpleDB keeps surprising us, for our EC2 cluster management platform Scalarium we switched to CouchDB and Redis some time ago....
Oct 28th
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Oct 23rd
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Go inspire someone.
“With hard work, faith in yourself, and a suspension in belief of the status quo, anything is possible.” -me, just now After two years and two startups, I’ve heard the essence of that line sliced and diced into a thousand different forms.  Books, magazine articles, blog posts, tweets, Facebook statuses, and on and on all purport to inspire people with phrases like that. ...
Oct 20th
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Oct 19th
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Oct 18th
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Oct 18th
“Tweeeeeeeeet”
Oct 17th
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Oct 16th
Oct 16th
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I want to replace MySQL w/ Mongo. Convince me I'm...
My main reason for wanting to do it is MongoDB’s schema-less nature.  MongoDB would give me zero downtime deploys, and the map/reduce sharding they are starting to harden is just SICK.  I’ve been thinking about things that it fundamentally lacks that would deter me, and the only thing I’ve come up with is that it lacks transactions.  But I think that’s manageable, and still...
Oct 15th
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Oct 14th
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Replacing github gems w/ gemcutter is a mistake
It’s been two weeks since github dropped their gem support for gemcutter, and it’s been one annoyance after another (gems being out of date and not being able to fork, mostly).  I see no value in the separation of code and gem hosting (and I’ve been kinda surprised at the bandwagon gathering over how great this is). So no offense @qrush — gemcutter is cool, and has...
Oct 12th
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Oct 12th
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Oct 11th
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Oct 9th
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Named routes on rake tasks
walkaways: To be able to use named routes ( modelName_path, edit_modelName_path, etc ) on a rake task, you have to include ActionController::UrlWriter.
Oct 8th
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Ruby is slow (but can be fast). I am stupid (but... →
This presentation made be realize two things: Ruby has a long way to go as a programming language.  There are orders of magnitude of efficiencies hiding in the depths that will be realized in the next 2 years and be Ruby’s saving grace. I don’t know shit about Ruby.  There are a lot of very smart people that know a lot more about this than me.  To be honest I always knew this, but...
Oct 7th
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ListenCoffee is served way too hot
Oct 1st