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Ruby’s EventMachine – Part 3 : Thin 31 Oct 2012 | 01:26 am
As mentioned in part 1 and part 2 of this series on Ruby's EventMachine, Thin is where most folks encounter EventMachine for the first time, even if they do not realize it. EventMachine is at the core...
A/B Testing in Ruby On Rails 24 Oct 2012 | 01:15 am
In this post I am going to demonstrate, step-by-step, a way to A/B test new features from within Ruby-On-Rails using FluidFeatures. FluidFeatures is currently in closed-beta and requires request for i...
Ruby’s EventMachine – Part 2 : Asynchronous != Faster 25 Sep 2012 | 01:19 am
In this post I will look synchronous vs asynchronous programming with Ruby's EventMachine, to show that asynchronous does not always mean that your code will run faster. In part 1 of this series on R...
Ruby’s EventMachine – Part 1 : Event-based Programming 15 Sep 2012 | 03:19 am
In this first post, of a series on Ruby's EventMachine, I will introduce EventMachine and explain why event-based programming is good for your wallet. EventMachine, which just turned 1.0.0 this week,...
Fluid Feature Rollout For Ruby On Rails 14 Sep 2012 | 05:25 am
In this blog post I am going to introduce a new service for Ruby On Rails developers called FluidFeatures that helps you manage rolling out new features to your site and provides a way to easily do A/...
Ruby exit, exit!, SystemExit and at_exit blunder 9 Sep 2012 | 03:25 am
Recently, we hit a problem with Ruby's "exit" command. If something went horribly wrong and it made no sense for our application to continue in its current state then we would abort with "exit 1". We ...
Colorful Ruby Code In HTML Using CodeRay 3 Sep 2012 | 10:27 pm
In this blog post I will demonstrate a quick and easy way I have found to syntax highlight your Ruby code in pretty colors for your blog posts or other HTML-based display purposes. Please note, this b...
Gitolite Installation Step-By-Step 24 Jul 2012 | 01:04 pm
In this post I will walk you through how to setup your own gitolite server and start hosting your own git repositories. Gitolite is a great tool for doing this and works in a very git-like way for ma...
54 Hours In The Okanagan Building A Startup 6 Mar 2012 | 04:04 pm
Remember, Startup Weekend equates to about 21 hours of development time and that includes brainstorming, planning, talking to mentors, other meetings, eating and a bit of fun. Also, skill-sets between...
Deploy The Tornado Chat Demo On The Stackato PaaS Sandbox 11 Jan 2012 | 07:57 am
In this blog post I'll go through an example, in repeatable steps, of how to get up and running with the Tornado chat demo on ActiveState's public sandbox for Stackato. ActiveState's Stackato PaaS (P...
