May 2010
11 posts
RT @jasoncross: Way to go, US Postal Service… http://twitpic.com/1qoyxb
View of the city at sunset from Twin Peaks http://yfrog.com/504npj
Headed to the Maker Faire. Should be fun
RT @igrigorik: deja vu moment while watching the Roo (spring + gwt) demo from Google IO… it’s the 5 min Rails blog app demo, except fr …
Goole IO - Just Like a lame TV show - http://bit.ly/dnAueP
Perfect day at the Giants game. http://yfrog.com/j45xyj
Robin Hood. Been waiting a while for this one.
Bucks for lunch
Had fun at the Github meetup / drinkup this evening.
RT @brianattopsy: This is phenomenal - http://nyti.ms/bJOnD2 - NYT infographic on the ridiculous Facebook privacy settings/statements.
Seriously considering one of these to compensate for AT&T uselessness in SF - http://bit.ly/aH3gUY
April 2010
16 posts
I present to you the ‘Excaliber’ artillery round - http://bit.ly/bDWzpy - (oh, it could be inaccurate within certain calendar dates).
I watch Luke, now 17 months old, play on the iPad and wonder if he will ever really use a computer with a physical keyboard.
there’s a guy at the Giants game watching the NBA playoffs on his iPad. this thing will be huge http://yfrog.com/i3q5whzrj
Bought tickets for an A’s game on mlb.com - worst online buying experience I’ve ever had. A complete cluster. Web team @mlb should be fired.
RT @brianattopsy: Facebook is all kinds of down - http://bit.ly/aZv1dB - guess they couldn’t handle all that new Like button traffic.
perfect day at Dolores Park http://yfrog.com/izaxvj
What could ever go wrong with sharing your every card purchase with a service that broadcasts it to the world? http://bit.ly/bs9iqQ
Facebook Account : Account > Privacy Settings > Applications and Websites > Instant Personalization > UNCHECK
nice one McAfee - http://bit.ly/cCyXZa
An 8.5 minute request is a sign something is wrong with your app - ‘Completed in 521718ms (View: 79, DB: 11) | 200 OK’
drove through the GOOG campus. saw the goats
Wonder what happens when a 747 flies through a volcanic ash cloud? http://bit.ly/9d3oOQ Hint: it loses all 4 engines.
RT @3n: Just added this custom, IE-only experience to the wallpapers site: http://bit.ly/bzVbqQ
Wow, the video of last night’s meteor event over the midwest are amazing. Would love to have seen in-person - http://bit.ly/bJT1QQ
how did I miss this? http://bit.ly/aTVvEM
When your site needs to handle a 21,000 % increase in traffic, you call EngineYard - http://bit.ly/9MCpp1
March 2010
1 post
VNC/Servers - Community Ubuntu Documentation →
February 2010
2 posts
What Second Life can teach your datacenter about... →
Scaling lessons from Second Life →
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December 2009
8 posts
Generating Thousands of PDFs on EC2 with Ruby «... →
Hadoop on Rails
A few months ago, I wrote an article about using Ruby with Hadoop, and more specifically, the Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR) service. I hope some of you found that article helpful.
I figured it was time to post a follow-up - using Rails with Hadoop. Much of my work over the past few months has been building a system to efficiently store, process, and display large amounts of log data. Naturally I...
Production Rails Tuning with Passenger:... →
tuning phusion passenger performance
masterkain's ImageMagick-sl at master - GitHub →
working build script for ImageMagick on Snow Leopard
Passing environment variables to Ruby from Phusion... →
getting mini_magick gem and ImageMagick to work with passenger
Pollux: Automatically Organize and Fix Your Music... →
free app to clean itunes library
TidySongs.com – Tidy Up Your Music! →
clean itunes library
ActiveJS: The Cross Platform JavaScript MVC →
ActiveRecord-like library for browsers
November 2009
10 posts
R A C K A M O L E →
rack app for tracking site usage
Interview with Ezra Zygmuntowicz – Engine Yard →
interview with Ezra about the history of EngineYard
Neven Mrgan's tumbl →
glyphboard for iphone
#haml →
haml for rails
Apple's Mistake →
“Software isn’t like music or books. It’s too complicated for a third party to act as an intermediary between developer and user. And yet that’s what Apple is trying to be with the App Store: a…
Hackido: Install Ruby on Rails on Ubuntu Karmic... →
setup rails on base ubuntu 9.10 image
Simple CouchDB multi-master clustering via Nginx —... →
nginx front to couchdb
Delete Flash Cookies - OS X Daily →
how to remove flash cookies
Twitter Data Dump: InfoChimps Puts 1B Connections... →
large twitter datasets for sale
NSA to store yottabytes of surveillance data in... →
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Hadoop, Pig, and Twitter (NoSQL East 2009) →
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RMagick (from source) on Snow Leopard →
build script for image-magick / rmagick gem on snow leopard