Dave Elkins

a good intro to linux performance tools

January 21st, 2010 · No Comments

http://spyced.blogspot.com/2010/01/linux-performance-basics.html

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A good article about using subdomain-fu and potential issues

December 17th, 2009 · No Comments

http://blog.plataformatec.com.br/2009/12/subdomains-and-sessions-to-the-rescue/

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Rock Solid Html Emails from 24ways.org

December 14th, 2009 · No Comments

http://24ways.org/2009/rock-solid-html-emails

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GitHub post about asset bundling with rails

November 20th, 2009 · No Comments

http://github.com/blog/551-optimizing-asset-bundling-and-serving-with-rails

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good article about slow growth may mean slow death

November 4th, 2009 · No Comments

http://www.inc.com/magazine/20091101/does-slow-growth-equal-slow-death.html?partner=fogcreek

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A good article about digg’s use of Cassandra

October 29th, 2009 · No Comments

A good article about digg’s use of Cassandra.

http://blog.digg.com/?p=966

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Post about Deliverying Email Successfully by EngineYard

October 9th, 2009 · No Comments

http://www.engineyard.com/blog/2009/how-to-ensure-your-email-gets-delivered/

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EngineYard post about memory leaks with activerecord

September 4th, 2009 · No Comments

This is another great article from the EngineYard blog. It talks about the common reasons for memory leaks that come from ActiveRecord. It also provides links to several good tools for finding requests that have memory leak issues.

http://www.engineyard.com/blog/2009/thats-not-a-memory-leak-its-bloat/

a good article about subdomains and rails

September 2nd, 2009 · No Comments

http://www.taylorluk.com/articles/2009/08/12/hey-pac-man-sup-subdomains

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another article from carsonified about photoshop techniques

August 28th, 2009 · No Comments

http://carsonified.com/blog/design/photoshp/advanced-photoshop-techniques-for-web-designers-part-2/

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I work for a software company, do some web development on the side and tried to keep up with the latest trends in web development.

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