Looking for help again
The work keeps coming in, and I need another pair of hands to get it all done. So, if you're looking to pick up some part time dev work, and you know your way around a Rails app, apply for the gig here:
More …Excessive Use of Redis
Yesterday I read a post over at the EngineYard blog about a use case for Redis (in the name of being a polyglot, trying new things, etc.), and I just had to scratch my head. I love Redis — it rocks my world — but that example was too much for me. If you just want to store a set of ids somewhere to avoid normalization headaches, introducing Redis is overkill... just do it in MySQL!
More …Interesting breakage in Rails 3 RC
My latest project, UploadJuicer is running on Rails 3, and I'm loving it. Back in the Rails 3 beta 1 days, there were still a lot of rough edges, but beta 4 has been great so far. Until I wanted to upgrade UploadJuicer to Rails 3 RC (1). After the upgrade, I got this:
More …Unwrapping UploadJuicer
It says something about the sorry state of my blogging lately that my blog is the last place I'm announcing my latest project, Juicer. :) It's a handy service for offloading image uploading and resizing from your web app. Now you don't have to tie up your server to handle long uploads or to do a bunch of thumbnails. You can keep your app super-responsive for the core of what it does, and leave the uploads and resizes to us.
More …Facebook Rails Integration with OAuth2
This is simply awesome. Â Facebook launches a new API using OAuth2, making it much easier to integrate with Facebook from your Rails app, and Michael Bleigh quickly churns out a new oauth2 gem.
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