May
28
2008
Andre, Charles, and myself leave for RailsConf Thursday.
If you want to discuss Rails monitoring, Javascript, the business of Rails, biking, camping, or dogs, talk to us!
I’m the tall, skinny scarecrow-like figure with the big head. Charles looks like he might belong to a hipster boy band.…
May
27
2008
Passenger, AKA mod_rails
There are a number of posts (one, two) out there on getting Phusion’s Passenger up and running on OSX (Leopard). I decided to give it a go, and was pleased to discover several things:…
Despite reports to the contrary, Passenger installed just fine with Leopard’s built-in Apache (I’m running Apache 2.2.8).
May
21
2008
A while back, we wrote an article on Running Background Jobs in Ruby on Rails.
The Ruby on Rails framework has a number of tools for running your code outside of the web-request, including the venerable script/runner for one-off tasks, but using them can be a little heavy on your server.…
May
14
2008
Come see us talk about Scout Server Monitoring and Reporting at StartupRiot on May 19, 2008, and watch all the other startups present their wares. This looks to be a really great event.
See ya there!…
May
8
2008
My editor at Addison-Wesley wrote me today. He says that 6000 copies of “Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X, 3rd Edition” are on trucks. I think the 3rd edition is pretty good; it adds two chapters on Core Data, and chapters on the garbage collector, Core Animation, Web Services, NSTask, and NSViewController.…