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Posts from February 2009

Rails Dev Shortages

Mr. Frenandez’s post on Rails Maturity has sparked quite a reaction, most notably from Mr. Bowkett. There was one part that made me happy and frustrated all in one go: Actually, I hate to end on a bad note, but I really think that there’s some urgency to all this and that our collective failure [...]


grove is out

After working away at it for a month or two of scraped together free time, whilst learning erlang, grove is done and there’s a screencast to demo it. (By done I mean done for now, I’ve got some other projects to attend to for a bit) http://nickelcode.com/grove


Scale Rails Screencasts

http://railslab.newrelic.com/scaling-rails Been watching these, and they are great from every perspective. Even if you’re rails app is small and doesn’t really need to scale, the client side optimization tips in the first video are awesome stuff to put into practice.