Just wanted to give a quick update on where The Hydra Project stands.
I believe the code is most all there for the Federated Sites concept which is at the core of the Hydra Project.
I never sought out to operate a massive network of private trackers, and perhaps that has led to THP not being adopted [...]
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Hydra Project: Complete in Theory, not Adopted in Practice
Published by July 2nd, 2008 in Hydra Project and Ruby on Rails. 0 CommentsGet Over Yourself: Your App Is Not Going to Be the Next Twitter
Published by May 26th, 2007 in Entrepreneurship, PHP, Ruby on Rails and Web Apps. 3 CommentsArticles like this one, while incredibly well-written and witty, make the classic mistake of assuming (or implying) most apps will ever need to remotely scale to hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of requests a day (where Twitter currently stands).
Update: Terry Chay responds to this article here. I wasn’t 100% clear on the [...]
New blog up: YARB - Yet Another Rails Blog
We’ll be blogging three of our favorite things over there just in time for RailsConf:
Ruby, Rails and Lolcats!
Okay, so this post is part google-food for future googlers.
I developed a RailsMyAdmin plugin over a month and a half ago, yet failed to promote the project much. Though I did release source code at the time.
Googling “RailsMyAdmin”, I just came upon this page, which was created just a little while ago, and has [...]
Here are some great slides on how Twitter scales Ruby on Rails.
If Twitter keeps up this growth, it should finally put to rest the “but will RoR scale?” meme.
Anything You Can Do On Desktops, I Can Do (On The Web) Meta
Published by February 21st, 2007 in Ruby on Rails and Web Apps. 4 CommentsCharles Simonyi, creator of Microsoft Office, is up to some really interesting stuff.
I guess his work predates the growth in popularity of the web, but I find it odd that so much of his effort is placed on building out desktop apps.
Admittedly, as a major webapp developer, I’m a bit biased here. I know [...]
Lessons Learned From the Development of a Web 2.0 Application, Version 2
Published by January 13th, 2007 in Ruby on Rails and Web Apps. 2 CommentsI’ve already blogged a bit about Mailroom 2.0.
Looks like it’s finally happening… This Sundayy (say it in your loudest Monster Truck Commercial announcer Guy Voice), the latest release of Mailroom will be dropping (99% sure, we do have some last minute stuff to knock out).
We’ve aptly code-named it Growing Pains. It has, after all, [...]
Wisdom of Rails Wizards Study in Best ActiveRecord and Fragment Caching Store
Published by December 19th, 2006 in Ruby on Rails. 0 CommentsOne of the great things about Rails is that when you hit a DB/rendering performance bottleneck, you can often alleviate it with caching. For reducing database calls, many sites use memcached.
At the ActionView layer, if page caching is not an option (for example, most of your pageviews are from authenticated users), fragment caching is [...]
Robert Oliver from OCS Solutions on the Best ActiveRecord and Fragment Cache Store
Published by December 19th, 2006 in Ruby on Rails. 1 CommentRobert Oliver of OCS Solutions was one of the Super-Aweomse-Rails-Wizards chosen for the Wisdom of Rails Wizards Study and was kind share some of his expertise for our questions re: Best ActiveRecord and Fragment Cache Store.
Side note: We’ve been hosting several dedicated servers with OCS Solutions at SproutIt.com, with great success!
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