February 2008
25 posts
“How do you know you have a SPOF? Oh, you always have one. How do you find it?...”
– SPOF: Single Point of Failure
Terminal.app with tab titles →
thanks a lot. I really missed that from iTerm
ANN: rails-undo-redo →
“you can now easily transform any Rails Application using Active Record into a full fledged multi level undo/redo application like most desktop application.”
innotop →
“innotop is a powerful monitor for MySQL queries and status information”
Maatkit →
Maatkit (formerly MySQL Toolkit) contains essential command-line tools for MySQL, such as table checksums, a query profiler, and a visual EXPLAIN tool.
MySQL Conference 2007 Presentations →
How pre-fetching relay logs speeds up MySQL... →
Scaling MySQL at YouTube →
Video of the presentation. Unfortunately no slides.
“Edge Cases kill inspiration. They extinguish the bubbling of creative juices...”
– Edge Cases are the Root of all Evil | Blue Flavor
assert{ 2.0 } →
“A development process that involves any amount of tedium will eventually be done...”
– Matt Blodgett’s First Law of Software Development
How To Use Rails Migrations From The Console →
starling and asynchrous tasks in ruby on rails →
Make Your Ruby/Rails App Fast: Memory Profiling... →
great stuff
Timezone awareness in Rails -- techno weenie →
with_unprotected_attributes Rails plugin →
“I generalized bypassing attr_accessible and attr_protected for test factories.”
“And in this meeting, we kill the snake - we don’t just make plans to kill...”
– Cycle Gap: Dreaming in Code - Andy Hertfeld Quotes
Firebug 1.1 and getfirebug.com →
“I have talked to a few people recently who keep Firefox 2 around just “because Firebug needs it” but the latest beta works great in Firefox 3.”
Happy Path Testing With Selenium RC Fu →
“I believe a viral product is one where a consumer’s basic usage of a...”
– Redeye VC: After the Techcrunch Bump
query-reviewer →
“This rails plugin not only runs “EXPLAIN” before each of your select queries in development, but provides a small DIV in the rendered output of each page with the summary of query warnings that it analyzed.”
Garbage Collection is Why Ruby on Rails is Slow:... →
How to Kill Mysql Performance » SlideShare →
good stuff