July 23, 2008
“ Here’s the schizo thing about software development (at least on Macs):
1. Everybody praises apps that don’t have a ton of preferences and features.
2. Everybody asks for some new preferences and features.
1. Everybody praises apps that don’t have a ton of preferences and features.
2. Everybody asks for some new preferences and features.
July 22, 2008
Don't forget about RubyForge
I couldn’t agree more with Magnus here, and not because I hack on Gitorious. But because to me, rubygems == rubyforge and because I have incredible amounts of sympathy for all the hard work Tom Copeland & company has put into Rubyforge over the past years.
Maybe gem_server’s should be able to be federated amongst themselves, so we wouldn’t have to add different sources. Then again having to do exactly that might work out better as the number of gems increase and quality becomes, uhm, saturated. It seems to have worked out for the Debian/Ubuntu guys over the years…
Scalaris
“Scalaris is a scalable and fault-tolerant structured storage with strong data consistency for online databases or Web 2.0 services” — Show me the code.
July 21, 2008
Nginx Upload Module
Does the MIME parsing in nginx
July 17, 2008
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July 13, 2008
Faster IO for Ruby with Postgres
Interesting, didn’t realize the postgres driver already supported those calls. That’s what happens when you don’t read the source for underlying libraries, as you should…
July 10, 2008
Introducing DataFabric
Potentially easy sharding for ActiveRecord
July 8, 2008
“ Microsoft countered by hiring Avie’s old advisor to work on NT, which is kind of like Microsoft hiring my mom because I’m a good programmer