Hey, it's HighScalability time:
1 Billion/Month : Active Mostly Mobile YouTube Users
Quotable Quotes:
@ NeckbeardHacker : "Wait...he reimplemented swatch and rsync in chef, node and mongo?"" Yup." "......Why?""Go easy on him...he's a Ninjipsterstar."
@b6n : Scale myth #1: Your service is a unique snowflake.
@ polotek : If you don't care about bugs, …
…should contact me — jdevilla@ctstech.net or 647-985-5639 — as soon as possible and we should get talking.
Here's a Google Maps view of the area:
...here are the floor plans (click to see a larger version):
Yup, the office has a small shower room attached to the kitchen! Good for those of you who do bike commutes (myself included).
...and here are some photos:
- Lessons Learned: The ink is on the dead trees
- Engine Yard Developer Blog: Let's talk about OpenHack
- Giles Bowkett: Teaching The Robots To Sing: Episode 2 (TDD With Jasmine-Node)
- Blog | The Working Group: Our first #nerdlearn-aversary
- Rowan Hick: Rails developer to join our team in Toronto.
- New Relic: Case Study: New Relic Helps Uken Games Build a Global Gaming Business
Yup. It certainly does not like that.
Let's create a very real-world, enterprise-level, business-critical test case:
invalid_byte_spec.rb require 'rspec'
def replace_name(body, name) body.gsub(/joel/, name) end
describe 'replace_name' do it 'removes my name' do body = "hello joel"
replace_name(body, 'hank').should eq "hello hank" end
it 'clears out invalid UTF-8 bytes' do body = "hello …
- gnuu.org: Ruby 1.9 Encoding Issues, Again.
- Katz Got Your Tongue?: Ruby 1.9 Encodings: A Primer and the Solution for Rails
- Fingertips: Ruby 1.9 character encoding field notes
- Adventures with Ruby: Writing YAML files
- Matthew Bass: Processing malformed files with FasterCSV
- Engine Yard Developer Blog: Modern SQL Server & Rails
The Video
Earlier this month, I pointed to TshirtOS, the smart t-shirt designed by CuteCircuit and sponsored by Ballantine's ( yup, the whiskey company) and included a video of the shirt in action. They've posted a new video which takes a little dramatic licence in order to remind us that in the right hands — or the very, very wrong ones — technology can be a gateway to adventure:
In case you don't believe that a gadget in the right hands can turn an ordinary …
…55248d6 ) and fixed some code formatting ( f31aa72 ). Yup.
capybara-webkit
The only news for capybara-webkit this week is that Joe Ferris ( jferris , a.k.a. JƒF) does not want bug reports about system-specific compilation issues ( 6b724ef ). We simply can't fix them.
clearance
Nothing new on clearance , but Dan Croak ( croaky ) did get it working under Travis CI ( 3430e88 ).
appraisal
Tiny cleanups …
- thechrisoshow: A peek at the inner workings of Hashrocket
- Tammer Saleh: Rockin' JAX with Hashrocket
- Engine Yard Developer Blog: Lucky 13 Strikes (again)
- Trevor Turk: Links for 12-9-2011
- MetaSkills.net: From Test::Unit & Shoulda To MiniTest::Spec & MiniShoulda
- Gears Within Gears: When to use RSpec, when to use Cucumber
- Google Hangouts. Yup, we investigated it. Great service, but it's limited to 10 people, unless you want a public hangout, which we don't. (Sorry, it's not personal)
- GoToMeeting & WebX & Join.me. GoToMeeting works great for our Basecamp classes . They're all great if we have one speaker.
- AdobeConnect. We need an " Enterprise Specialist" to help us connect. What does that even mean?
- Meet-ups. A few times a year, everyone …
- Lessons Learned: Case Study: UX, Design, and Food on the Table
- MySQL Performance Blog: Percona Server and XtraBackup weekly news, March 19th
- Opscode Blog: Opscode supports CloudCamp Haiti - Jan 20, 2010
- A Fresh Cup: Double Shot #794
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- Envy Labs: Upcoming Conferences
- Ruby News: Red Dirt RubyConf 2010
- Riding Rails - home: What's New in Edge Rails
- Engine Yard Developer Blog: Steppin' Out: Real America Edition
- Ruby Inside: Ruby in 2010: A Retrospective of a Great Year for Ruby
- A Fresh Cup: Double Shot #673
2x20 - Friday
Sung by: Chord Overstreet, Kevin McHale & Mark Salling ( Sam/Artie/Puck)
Yup. This is epic.
Yup. But I merely simplified a real world problem. As I mentioned earlier, you can see the awkwardness of this API in rack .
But now that we know about this problem, we can identify middleware that will break streaming responses. For example, Rails defines a middleware that checks connections back in to the connection pool . If our ERb in Rails was streaming, we would lose the database connection during ERb render. The same is true with the query cache in …
- Engine Yard Developer Blog: Taking Stock of JRuby Web Servers
The most used database in the world, isn't that how it goes? Yup, MySQL is supported too.
* How to Setup a MySQL Service with Cloud Foundry (from Manij Strestha )
* Introduction to the Cloud Foundry MySQL Service
* SpringSource Deployment with Cloud Foundry with MySQL
There are indeed many more technologies that have Cloud Foundry support. I hope this collection of getting started links …
- Opscode Blog: Cloud Foundry PaaS Everywhere with Opscode Chef!
- Brainspl.at: Cloud Foundry the Open PaaS is finally Open Source!
- A Fresh Cup: Double Shot #786