Dave Elkins

In this article, Intridea shows you how to use CloudFront and AssetPackager together and prevent stale copies of assets from being served.
http://www.intridea.com/posts/amazon-cloudfront-preventing-stale-assets

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This is an article about different techniques for creating small unique tokens in Ruby.
http://blog.logeek.fr/2009/7/2/creating-small-unique-tokens-in-ruby

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Here is a really good article about using Cassandra from Evan Weaver.
http://blog.evanweaver.com/articles/2009/07/06/up-and-running-with-cassandra/

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A good article about using CloudFront from Amazon and the Paperclip plugin for Rails.  http://www.intridea.com/posts/using-amazon-cloudfront-to-serve-assets

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I decided about a week ago that I wanted to try Erubis with a Rails project to see if I got any performance boost.  So after reading the documentation, it appeared to be straightforward to install.  So I did.
But I discovered that the latest Erubis (2.6.4) and Rails 2.3 are not compatible.  After doing some [...]

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This is a list of steps I took to setup a headless XServer and CutyCapt on Ubuntu. Please let me know if you run into any issues using these steps.

The first set of steps is to get the requirements for CutyCapt installed and the Headless XServer setup.

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get -y install build-essential
sudo apt-get [...]

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http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2009/04/white-paper-creating-hipaacompliant-medical-data-applications-with-amazon-web-services.html

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http://pivotallabs.com/users/steve/blog/articles/746-inspect-running-ruby-processes-using-xray-and-kill-3

This is great when you need to figure out what a ruby process is doing and adds more visibility what is happening in real time.

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An interesting article about how FriendFeed uses battled tested technology (MySQL) in new and innovate ways to meet their needs.
http://bret.appspot.com/entry/how-friendfeed-uses-mysql

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http://axonflux.com/building-and-scaling-a-startup

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