26 Jul 2011
Sick of clicking on 'More tools' and 'Past year' after almost all of your Google searches? I was, so I hacked together a dotjs quickie which adds the necessary params if they aren't already provided.
25 Jul 2011
In the context of music recommendation engines, The Coldplay Effect is an unfortunate phenomenon that arises when certain artists' music (like Coldplay's) ranks high for likeness across diverse genres.
18 Jul 2011
There are a few different ways to go about building a multi-tenant Rails application. One way that works really well for certain apps is to use PostgreSQL's 'schemas' feature to partition each tenant's data. This article lays out why you might want to build your multi-tenant app this way and how to go about it.
29 Jun 2011
A quick and dirty capistrano task to pull a snapshot of your (PostgreSQL) production database into your development environment.
17 Jun 2011
Heroku's new Cedar stack is awesome for many reasons, one of which is first-class Node.js hosting. I'm giving it a test run with an app that uses Redis for data caching and I couldn't find any documentation on how to connect a Node app to the Redis To Go add-on. Here's how I did it
14 Jun 2011
Talker is a great tool for group chat, especially for development teams. Herein I enumerate 3 reasons why it's better suited than Campfire.
16 Apr 2011
(pejorative) The misleading use of unrepresentative benchmark software results in marketing a computer system.
12 Apr 2011
Pow is the new hotness for serving up Ruby apps in development. Apache is the old standby for serving up PHP (and other) apps in development. Pow and Apache don't play nice, but we can change that.
07 Apr 2011
Updating a related object in an ActiveRecord callback can be tricky due to association caching. It tripped me up for too long and Google was not helpful. Hopefully this post will at least solve the unhelpful Googling problem.
23 Mar 2011
Want to upgrade to the newly released Firefox 4 while maintaining your Firefox 3 install for browser testing purposes? So did I. Here's how to get 'er done