Software Version Numbers
In the RailsConf 2011 RubyGems presentation this afternoon, Nick Quaranto spent some time talking about versioning software, showing the versioning of TeX as kind of crazy where they use PI, adding a...
View ArticleGlenn Vanderburg on Building Software
Fantastic closing keynote by Glenn Vanderburg at RailsConf 2011 about software engineering. Great ideas about software engineering and how it compares to classical engineering disciplines (civil,...
View ArticleDeveloper Happiness at Etsy
Listening to Chad Dickerson (CTO at Etsy) speaking about optimizing for developer happiness at RailsConf 2011. Etsy releases software 25 times a day with 75 engineers. They emphasize constant progress...
View ArticleRuby on Rails 3, Octopus, and Sharding with Groups
The Ruby on Rails app I’m building from the ground up needs to be able to handle *lots* of data. From the get-go I’ve known I’d need to put some kind of data partitioning to make this thing scale, but...
View ArticleAndriod to iPod/iPhone Dock Adapter Cable
I’ve gotten a Zune connected to an iPod/iPhone dock in the past, but what seems more compelling these days with the rise of Android is to make an adapter or a cable to get a micro USB device to an...
View ArticleStill Loving The Postal Service
10 years ago the band The Postal Service released their only full length album, Give Up. Back then they did a live studio recording at KCRW on their Morning Becomes Eclectic show. I had the video on my...
View ArticleMigrating from MovableType to WordPress in 2017
With some server shuffling happening recently this blog appeared to be on the chopping block. Didn’t take much poking around to remember how much history there is here and feel like it was worth...
View ArticleThis Blog Runs on MariaDB
I have written a lot about databases over the years, primarily MySQL. ~300 posts on this blog, a book titled ProMySQL, and another book on MySQL Cluster Certification. In a former life I worked...
View ArticleAny Fool Can Code
Scott Ship’s post Why Senior Devs Write Dumb Code resonates with me. I love the quote from Kent Beck’s book, Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code: Any fool can write code that a computer...
View ArticleMonitor Redis Pubsub Messages
Do you need to monitor your redis data store, but rather than see everything under the sun only want to see the messages published in the pubsub? redis-cli monitor | grep -E ' "PUBLISH" ' Piece of...
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