I’ve been working on a website the past few days using Radiant CMS. So far, I have found it to be an excellent lightweight framework. The core concepts are very straightforward and there is minimal abstraction from the underlying Rails application.CMS in general is a dirty word to me. It conjures up pictures of heavy [...]
I’ve spent the past week plugging performance holes in a project at work. I wrote a Rails based service that allows us to manage our large amount of messaging to users. It provides stuff like bounce handling and serves as a central drop off point for other applications to push a message in the queue [...]
I did a short presentation on Ruby on Rails with Mac OS X for Seattle XCoders last night. The notes and sample code are here.The notes are in a VodooPad document. So if you don’t have VoodooPad, pay Gus for his cool app.
Every now and then, silver bullets work. For as long as I have been at Jobster, we have had issues with high CPU loads on our Oracle 10g server. We’ve been slowly working on it, finding inefficient queries and pages and fixing them. But on Monday, we really were on the edge. Our CPU usage [...]