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Entries from January 2009

A very good article about Risk Mismanagement on Wall Street

January 26th, 2009 · No Comments

This is a very good article about risk management on Wall Street and the use and misuse of a tool helped in the current financial meltdown.
This has a lot of applications in the way we use tools and measurements in developing software. We need to know the proper use and limitations of the software development [...]

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Tags: business · news

Post about profiling Rails apps

January 19th, 2009 · No Comments

http://cfis.savagexi.com/2008/11/13/profiling-your-rails-application-take-two

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Setting Solr as a daemon and monitoring with God

January 13th, 2009 · 2 Comments

While working on a project with SOLR we wanted to setup SOLR to run as a daemon and monitor it with God.  While researching how to do this I found that while there some information, there was not a complete answer that completely worked for me.

So I thought I would share what I did.

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Tags: code · rails · web

Robby on Rails post about account subdomains in rails

January 12th, 2009 · No Comments

Robby on Rails post about account subdomains in rails.

http://www.robbyonrails.com/articles/2009/01/11/subdomain-accounts-with-ruby-on-rails-explained

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Request per Second measurement

January 6th, 2009 · No Comments

The Rails Way is back with a post about the pitfalls of using request per second measurement when profile and why using request duration may be more useful.
This article made some really good points and I will definitely think about this the next time I am profiling my applications.
http://www.therailsway.com/2009/1/6/requests-per-second

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Tags: code · rails · scaling

Bamboo blogged about setting up a Xen server

January 6th, 2009 · No Comments

http://blog.new-bamboo.co.uk/2009/1/6/how-to-setup-your-own-virtualized-rails-hosting-environment-with-xen

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Amazon SimplePay and Rails

January 5th, 2009 · No Comments

Using Amazon SimplePay with a Rails application is something I have looked at a couple of times but never got very far with it.  This looks to be a great article about how to use it.
http://afreshcup.com/2009/01/04/using-amazon-simple-pay-from-rails/

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A super list of Rails tutorials

January 5th, 2009 · No Comments

This is a huge list of tutorials about rails.  Check it out, I am sure you will find something you are interested in.
http://rubypond.com/articles/2009/01/05/ruby-on-rails-tutorials/

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Tags: rails