We've added Tackle Football as a new sport. We've also added new stats for both Tackle and Flag football. You can turn them on under the Admin -> General -> Manage Statistics page.
How Edmunds Leveraged Community Cookbooks to Manage Their Hadoop Cluster The webinar takes place on Thursday January 31st at 10am PT , and we hope to see you there!
Speakers:
John Martin, Sr. Director, Production Engineering at Edmunds
John is the Sr. Director of Production Engineering for Edmunds in sunny Santa Monica, CA. He manages a team of platform engineers that drive the automotive giant's Continuous Delivery environment. …
- New Relic: Five Non-Mainstream Databases for PHP Apps - Part 3
- High Scalability: Analyzing billions of credit card transactions and serving low-latency insights in the cloud
- pingles: Multiple connections with Hive
- World Wide Webber: Graph Processing versus Graph Databases
- Article RSS Feed: January 2011 Meeting
- Engine Yard Developer Blog: Data Science at Engine Yard
Turning to the practices, we start with the third one, " Manage flow ".
The management part of this practice speaks of tactical organisation and decision-making aimed at progressing work for optimal outcomes ( effectiveness ). At some level - though with widely varying degrees of success - this is universal.
Flow adds something much less common, a sense of smoothness and predictability ; addressing impediments to these systematically is a powerful improvement approach, exemplified …
- Tea-Driven Development: BDD Training
- Lindsay Holmwood - auxesis' musings: Devops Down Under 2011 videos online
- On the Path: The Path to an Agile Maturity Assessment
- Pragmatic Bookshelf: Lean from the Trenches: Managing Large-Scale Projects with Kanban now in print; 30th PragPub
- A Fresh Cup: Double Shot #796
- Giles Bowkett: KanbanPad
ZERIGO KEY (your account's api key. Turn on api access in Manage account / DNS / preferences)
optionally, DNS BACKUP DIR
Obviously all of this is an almost trivial backup that will only help you restore things manually when things go bad. You may want to replicate any new record to a secondary service, but I chose not to. I'm comfortable with this situation, since rating wines you love or dislike is not considered critical ;-)
So, do you back up your DNS records? …
- igvita.com: Measuring Site Speed with Navigation Timing
- Engine Yard Developer Blog: Migrating Your Application to a New Host
- Comments on: blog: Link dump for November 26th
- SKORKS: How To Speed Up Your Website By 80% Or More
- Giles Bowkett: America Knows Robot Warriors Will Destroy America
- townx - tech: Rationalisation
* Manage and monitor your Cloud-based applications using Heroku and New Relic
Joe and engineers from thoughtbot, Heroku and New Relic will be available to answer your questions. Food and drinks will be provided.
The event takes place Tuesday, July 23rd from 7 pm - 9 pm at Heroku's San Francisco office at 321 Eleventh Street in San Francisco. Attendance is limited, so reserve your spot today by registering at http://rubyperformanceinthecloud.eventbrite.com/ . …
- Ruby Inside: The Mega Ruby News and Release Roundup for February 2012
- RailsTips by John Nunemaker: EventMachine and Passenger
- giant robots smashing into other giant robots: This week in open source
- Trevor Turk: Weekly Digest, 7-9-09
- Heroku: Railslab Interview
- paperplanes: Web Operations 101 For Developers
…GET messages in the Rails log for individual images bugs you, here's how to remove them.
Rails Internals: Mass Assignment Security - A peek at some of the Rails internals.
git-sweep - Tool to clean up git branches that have been merged into master.
github-trello - Manage your Trello issues through GitHub commits.
- Dr Nic: Instant new Rails applications with the App Scrolls
- Patrick Lenz: Syntax Highlighting for a Rails Blog
- giant robots smashing into other giant robots: Copycopter is now open source
- Signal vs. Noise: Why Attacking Application Exceptions is Important
- Engine Yard Developer Blog: Tao of Documentation
- Redline Software Inc. - Winnipeg's Leader in Ruby on Rails Development: ASP.Net MVC vs Ruby on Rails Smackdown Results
Manage Your Email, Don't Let It Manage You
How Flickr Co-Founder Caterina Fake manages her email.
When it comes to email, it's easy to allow a swelling inbox consume your entire workday. That's why Inc. Magazine suggests picking two or three times out of the day to check your inbox. Believe it or not, the article's suggestion is something we've heard before from a few influencers .
Take Ben Blumenfeld, communication design manager …
- Signal vs. Noise: QUOTE: Spinfree had a dirty little secret: It wasn...
- Software by Rob: 9 Ways to Decrease Your Chance of Bootstrapping a Successful Company
- Global Nerdy: Introducing the BarCamp Tour
Happy Turkey Day.
minitest-emoji - Alternative output for your test results.
Migrate Your Migrations to Migrant - Manage database structure declaratively right in your models.
IRCCloud - IRC in the browser. Unrestricted during beta if you can get an invite.
url2png - Website screenshot API.
Configuration for Rails, the Right Way - Adding your own configuration values to Rails 3 without gems or plugins.
- Ruby Inside: The Last Week in Ruby: Rails 3.1.1, Sinatra Recipes, Spree Gets Funded and more
- 4 Lines of Code: Aircraft-carrier of Authentication
- Jason Seifer: Installing Ruby, Rails, and MySQL on Mac OS X Lion
- Life at the Speed of Green: Cleaner RSpec/FactoryGirl Integration
- SapphireSteel Software: Create a Ruby On Rails Blog in Visual Studio
- Comments on: blog: Link dump for September 29th
Presentations and Videos
Gregory Moeck: Why You Don't Get Mock Objects
Not a big fan of mock objects in testing? Don't even know what mocks are? Get up to speed with Gregory Moeck who makes a convincing case for mocks in this RubyConf 2011 replay. In essence, if you're doing object orientation properly, you need mocks (ooh, controversial!)
Your Data, Your Search: ElasticSearch
A wonderful Ruby-focused…
- Labnotes: Rounded Corners 294 — Buy more RAM
- A Fresh Cup: Double Shot #713
- Transcending Frontiers: Guest Series: Peter Cooper - Capybara-WebKit: Bringing WebKit to your integration tests
- Heroku: Heroku at RailsConf in Baltimore
- giant robots smashing into other giant robots: See you at PostgreSQL West
- Rails Inside: Scout Improves App Monitoring for Rails Developers
…redirect. Go back to the Domain Manager page for your domain and click the Manage link in the Forwarding section.
On this rather garish page, put in the www. version of your domain name (e.g. www.bigbuttonsapp.com )
Click save, and now you should be able to browse to your site, all up and running!
BONUS UPLOAD SCRIPT
Here's a script I created that let's you upload your files to S3 with ease. It doesn't handle subdirectories, and it uploads all the …
- blog.webandy.com | Andy Atkinson: Twin Cities Code Camp 2006
- DigitalHobbit: Rails in the Cloud: AWS, Heroku, and Morph
- OnRails.org: Amazon RDS: Amazon Relational Database Service or MySQL in the Cloud for Ruby On Rails.
- Merbist: Causality of scalability
- giant robots smashing into other giant robots: Giving Thanks
- High Scalability: Cloud AWS Infrastructure vs. Physical Infrastructure