* Andrew Bloomgarden and Julian Giuca gave a tour of our experience upgrading to Rails 3 (like changing the wheels of a bus going at 80 mph!). Slides are here .
We believe that videos of the presentations will be posted at ConFreaks, so keep an eye on this site .
With our new space in Portland, we were able to host the conference with live streaming for those who missed out on tickets for the sold-out show. Over four days, people gathered at New Relic to watch …
- Heroku: Running Rails on Heroku Update
- Ruby Inside: This Week in Ruby: Matz on Ruby 2.0, Numerous Conference CFPs, Tenderlove on define_method
- Giles Bowkett: Historical Context For Web Geek Information Marketing
- paperplanes: Form Objects with ActiveModel
- Opscode Blog: Chef 11 Released!
- Signal vs. Noise: Learning Rails made me a better designer
…Monthly rate Simcoe 125 sq. ft. $ 1199 St. Andrew 203 sq. ft. $ 1599 Union 228 sq. ft. $ 1799 King 246 sq. ft. $ 1999
We're also offering individual desks at $ 500/month. These rates include Beanfield's 100meg internet service and cleaning staff.
Photo Tour
Here's a quick tour of Union Workstation, featuring photos I took when we moved in:
That's right, Union Workstation has a shower! It's perfect for bike commuters, and I plan to make use …
* Andrew Hutchings ( HP)
* Andrew Morgan ( Oracle)
* Sergey Petrunia ( MariaDB)
* MC Brown ( Couchbase)
* Giuseppe Maxia ( Continuent)
* Frédéric Descamps ( Percona)
Thank you for submitting your sessions and see you soon in Brussels to
talk MySQL and/or have some nice Belgian Beers
Original mail to the Community MySQL mailing list
- New Relic: How do you move more than 6000 customers in 2 hours? (Hint: plan ahead)
- till's blog: Hosted MySQL: Amazon RDS (and backups)
- Pixellated Visions: Fixing MySQL and rubygem errors on a new rails 2.3.8 install
- Engine Yard Developer Blog: 5 subtle ways you're using MySQL as a queue, and why it'll bite you
- igvita.com: HandlerSocket: The NoSQL MySQL & Ruby
- Giles Bowkett: The Crowdsourced Panopticon
…Andrew Hutchings. There are More MySQL connectors available than standard "libmysql" and Andrew will tell you all about it. You should be specially interested in this talk if GPL licensing requirements for standard MySQL client libraries make it challenging to use in your environment.
common_schema: DBA's framework for MySQL by Shlomi Noach is a talk about very powerful set of views and routines to simplify a lot of common DBA tasks for administration and analyses. …
- interblah.net: road-testing-the-eleven-inch-air
- Ruby Inside: 13 New Ruby and Rails Jobs for July 2011
- Engine Yard Developer Blog: 5 subtle ways you're using MySQL as a queue, and why it'll bite you
- New Relic: Next Stop: Percona Live - Find Out How You Can Join Us
- igvita.com: HandlerSocket: The NoSQL MySQL & Ruby
- Eddorre.com: Rails Ultimate Install Guide on OS X Lion (using RVM, Homebrew, and Pow)
…the cookbook didn't affect the Cucumber features that were added by Andrew Crump. However, a recent change in test-kitchen means that the features aren't automatically run, because we're not using "runtimes", which couples the cookbook use to RVM . Note that RVM isn't bad, but it isn't part of the base boxes we use , so additional consideration is required that complicates the basic use case.
If you would like to test …
- Riding Rails - home: Community Highlights
- OnRails.org: Moving (again) http://onrails.org from Heroku to EC2
- Engine Yard Developer Blog: Important MySQL Configuration Changes
- How Software is Built: Interview with Daniel Jacobson - Digital Media - National Public Radio
- A Fresh Cup: Notes on Using Jammit with Rails
- Litany Against Fear: 5 Great Talks Notes
…extended period of time. Since the outages equate to lost revenue and potentially lost customers, Andrew's first goal was to identify the cause of the problems and fix them.
Andrew determined that the problems were due to a memory leak and created homegrown tools to fix them. But without any proactive real time performance monitoring and management tools, the interactive team wasn't able to see what was going on in real time. He started looking around for a better tool when a colleague …
- JJinuxLand: PyCon: Introspecting Running Python Processes
- High Scalability: Sponsored Post: Red 5 Studios, SingleHop, Spokeo, Callfire, Attribution Modeling, Logic Monitor, New Relic, ScaleOut, AppDynamic
- Ruby Inside: 9 Ruby and Rails Jobs for January 2012
- Effectif Development: 3 Unix commands for finding performance problems
- Hackido: Quick Tip: Page caching and POST in Rails
- Lessons Learned: Doing > Talking
…co-founder of Meetup.com , and a mutual friend of ours, introduced Andrew and I and we had lunch in early 2009.
Because...
I had gotten to know Scott over the years after 37signals designed the original Meetup.com site back in 2001-2002.
Because...
Scott emailed me back in 2001 asking if he could meet while he was in Chicago visiting family. He liked our early web design work at 37signals . No one had ever asked to meet me out of the blue before - and …
- Signal vs. Noise: Paul Horowitz and the real 37 signals
- Signal vs. Noise: PHOTO: Adam Hogan put together a deeply insightful...
- RubyLearning Blog: Do YOU know Resque?
- Ruby-coloured glasses: How to build a reputation in IT
- Software by Rob: Why Startup Founders Should Stop Reading Business Books
- giant robots smashing into other giant robots: Giving Thanks
…week, we released a new RubyGem, test-kitchen , written by Andrew and our own Seth Chisamore. Test Kitchen provisions an isolated test environment using Vagrant to run project tests on different platforms.
To accompany test-kitchen , we have also released our Vagrant base boxes, which we build with another new project called Bento . Bento is a set of Veewee definitions based on Tim Dysinger's modular DRY basebox .
The test-kitchen …
- Opscode Blog: Community-authored Plugin: Knife Community Release
- Opscode Blog: Chef 10.14.0 Released!
- Engine Yard Developer Blog: Let the Engine Yard Cloud dashboard and SSH access help you
- A Fresh Cup: Double Shot #897
- till's blog: Vagrant: ShellProvisioner vs. Chef
- AkitaOnRails.com - English: Cooking Solo with Chef
[ 1 , 2 , 3 ].each_with_object( 1 ).map(& :+ ) # => [2, 3, 4] # Same outcome, even shorter [ 1 , 2 , 3 ].map(& 1 .method( :+ )) # => [2, 3, 4]
In his blog post In Ruby, &method passes you! , Andrew Grimm explains how this all works.
Both snippets via Peter Cooper .
- Mislav's blog: The controversy of "and or unless else"
- giant robots smashing into other giant robots: This week in open source
- Fun With Radiant: Radiant 0.7.2 - Engravings Retro Release (bugfix)
- MySQL Performance Blog: Can we get faster expression handling in MySQL
- Concentration de studioConcentration de studio: qed: "There's some magic in the idea of never actually confirming that Andrew exists." From the...
- From Noob to Ninja Programmer: Over my Head, Part I: Encapsulation
…Andrew Crump ( @ acrmp ). Andrew is the author of Foodcritic , a tool for checking your cookbooks for best practices and other errors which may be syntactically correct, but would fail when the cookbook is converged by Chef.
We spend a lot of time thinking about the cookbook contribution process and how to test patches to ensure they don't break functionality. Andrew also recently wrote full suites of minitest and cucumber tests for both the apache2 and …
- Opscode Blog: Announcing Test Kitchen
- Opscode Blog: Testing Opscode's Apache2 Cookbook
- paperplanes: Conference Talks You Should Be Watching
- Engine Yard Developer Blog: Common Custom Chef Solutions
- AkitaOnRails.com - English: Chatting with Adam Jacob
- Momoro Machine: Getting started with Chef -- A tutorial