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Meteor Won’t Kill Rails Anytime Soon
This is in response to Why Meteor will kill Ruby on Rails. A pretty big claim, for sure. Now, Meteor is worth checking out, but Josh didn’t name any of the reasons why I and a whole lot of others...
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Efficiency with Sublime Text and Ruby
https://thunderboltlabs.com/blog/2013/11/19/efficiency-with-sublime-text-and-ruby/ An excellent set of core ST tips. I learned a couple really handy things even though I’ve been using Sublime Text for...
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It is supremely important that we ensure our data is safe. . .
. . . it is supremely important that we ensure our data is safe, consistent and reliable. We can dramatically increase these factors by taking full advantage of the tools at hand. Yes. This is the most...
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WordPress.com vs. managed WordPress hosting
There are some well known “managed WordPress” platforms like Page.ly and WP Engine. And the reviews I’ve seen compare running a WordPress instance yourself vs. using one of these. But wordpress.com is...
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Yes, Rails does support case-insensitive queries
It’s unfortunately just a little buried and a little undocumented. And so conventional wisdom is that Rails doesn’t do case-insensitive finds. But in fact it does: Example 1 Find all the statutes whose...
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“There are two kinds of websites: the quick and the dead.”
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2011/06/performance-is-a-feature.html
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mctop – a top-like app for monitoring memcached
mctop – a top-like app for monitoring memcached I couldn’t find a simple script for monitoring memcached’s efficiency, so I started this project.
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What’s not a violation of the Law of Demeter
Buried within a C2.com wiki page is this excellent exchange: Trying to come up with a more simple (non-foobar) example, is this correct? currentPerson.Account.Deposit(500) <– bad...
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Linode vs. DigitalOcean: back to Linode for me
DigitalOcean doesn’t give first-line support the tools to diagnose their own systems. And so a two-day outage can easily happen. On the other hand, Linode support answers quickly every time (usually in...
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Support for Test Driven Devops
I like to apply Test Driven Development to my sysadmin work. For example, every time I add a new redirect to a web server configuration I want to make sure I haven’t broken anything else. Further, I...
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