23 May 2013

The Ruby Reflector

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Release

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By Leigh Shevchik of New Relic 2 months ago.
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…have a look at the CHANGELOG and you'll immediately realize that the Release 3.0 counts more than 50 entries.

The most notable change that will probably affect a few users is the minimum Ruby requirement. Whois 3 no longer supports Ruby 1.8.7 and the minumum Ruby version is now Ruby 1.9.2. With Ruby 2.0 released, it's time to move forward.

Query Handler

One of the most important features is the introduction of the query handler . Whois::Server::Adapters::Base.query_handler.class …

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By Hongli Lai of Phusion Corporate Blog 2 months ago.
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…the time of writing, Phusion Passenger Enterprise 4.0 is on its 4th Release Candidate . You can download it from the Customer Area .

You should put the number for desired_app_threads_per_process into the PassengerThreadCount option. If you do this, you also need to set PassengerConcurrencyModel thread in order to turn on multithreading support.

Possible step 4: configure Rails

Only if you're on a multithreaded deployment do you need to configure Rails…

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By Matt Sneeden of New Relic 3 months ago.
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CI). Delivering software efficiently is just one piece of the puzzle in our longer-term goals for improving our agent team processes. We're already hand at work focusing on improving our functional automated testing and it will soon spider out to other areas as well. Stay tuned ...

The post Automating the New Relic .NET Agent Release Process appeared first on New Relic blog .

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By Mike Gunderloy of A Fresh Cup 6 months ago.
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Brain just wants to shut down and hibernate. Happy winter.

The Leprechauns of Software Engineering - New ebook that tries to figure out where some of the myths we believe in come from. 10x productivity anyone?

Rails::Observers - Extracted to a gem in preparation for Rails 4.

Ruby 2.0 Release Schedule - It's coming.

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By santiago.pastorino of WyeWorks Blog - The Team's Voice 6 months ago.
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…build setting, but will resolve to CONFIGURATION Release for builds under the ‘ Release' setting. HockeyApp recommends using this same technique to keep their Beta Testing code out of your release builds for the app store.

With great power...

I'd be remiss if I didn't state that this technique should be used extremely sparingly. The use cases presented here are examples of how you may want to use source code preprocessing, but you can quickly go too far. Used …

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By Mike Gunderloy of A Fresh Cup 7 months ago.
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Git 1.8.0 Release Notes - And one for git.

Redis 2.6 release notes - And one for redis.

Help us Test the Social API with Facebook Messenger for Firefox - I would, if I used Facebook. Here's to Tent integration.

chruby - Another simple alternative for switching ruby versions on the fly.

Benchmark Your Bundle - Simple script to figure out which of your gems is taking the longest to load.

jq - "Like sed for JSON

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On ZURB 7 months ago.
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…working hard for the past few months to get Solidify ready for release. It was in Private Release for a hot minute, during which we were busy gathering extensive user feedback and iterating on the features. Yep, you heard that right. We user tested our tool for user testing.

User Testing Helped Us Get Where We Are

The private release of Solidify was an opportunity for us to run user testing of the app and learn how users were interacting with it. Not only that, but the private …

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By Adam of Transcending Frontiers 9 months ago.
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For the last few months we have been working hard building the iPhone and web apps for the Big Help Mob in Perth. It has been a tremendous effort culminating in both a TV feature and launch event this week.

Well done on everyone who contributed to the project. A fitting end to the hard work of the last few months.

Today Tonight feature spot (transcript)

Media Release by Minister McSweeney

Photos from the launch event

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