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Scaling Twitter, the Talk

I have a feeling this presentation by Blaine Cook will be the most attended session at the upcoming Silicon Valley Ruby Conference. More thoughts on the whole Twitter / Rails thing: Friction(less)...

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Advanced Rails Training

I’m sitting in my hotel room in Dallas, waiting to meet the other folks from work who are here for the Advanced Rails training put on by The Pragmatic Studio. Definitely should be a fun week!

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The Rise of Mini-Apps

I’ve had Dave Thomas’ post about REST and the RADAR architecture open in one of my tabs since it was published a few weeks ago. I kept meaning to blog about it since it seemed very insightful with...

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Conditional Association Loading

Obie shows a very cool way to handle ActiveRecord loading an Association Proxy. By overriding the loaded? method, you can include business logic to automatically return true that the proxy was loaded...

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Some Random Ruby / Rails Goodness

Here’s a few Ruby / Rails things I’ve seen around the Web the last few days. All are pretty cool… Evan Weaver shows off some MySQL configurations for Rails. Ilya Grigorik creates a simple RSS...

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Creating a Web Framework with Conventions

Joe Gregorio has an awesome post detailing the work needed to create a Web framework with some very nice conventions. They key point of adding ‘conventions’ is to take a load off the user. You need to...

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Vendor/Gems and Rake

Today, I hit a little bump along the road of having a nice, simple checkout/run path in the Rails project I’m working on. The problem occurs when you don’t have a gem installed on the system, instead...

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NFL Playoffs start today

Most of you might already know that but the New York Times have put together a nice site which breaks down the various pieces in the games. Looking at the Pro Football section of the site though, you...

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topics.latimes.com

We launched something officially this week, http://topics.latimes.com. It actually went out mid-December but it isn’t official until it was linked to from the main Entertainment section, which was...

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Getting Down to the Metal

Rails Metal looks pretty darn awesome. It allows you to specify specific URI paths which will bypass the normal Rails stack, shaving precious milliseconds off your responses and not making the Baby...

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