I am a photographer, entrepreneur, software engineer, guitarist, and telemark skier
This blog is about startups, blogging, Ruby On Rails, virtualization and cloud computing, photography, customer service, marketing, ux and design, git, and lots more.
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I work in the travel industry. Those of you who have ever had experience with air travel, you may know that this industry is full of complex business rules, exceptions, exceptions to exceptions, and general mayhem. Couple this with the nature of our product: a switch between airlines and travel agencies, and you get a [...]
The robot-coop’s memcache-client is the recommended memcache library to use for Rails. However, when I tried to use it with the Rails fragment cache, I found it was simply incompatible. Rails fragment cache wanted read() and write() methods, but the library only provided get() and set(). I took this opportunity to write a very simple [...]
Thanks to Topfunky’s post on memcached, my life has been made much simpler! He’s put together a great little script that downloads memcached and applies the fix that will cause it to run at normal speeds under OS X. I spent about two hours trying to get the sources from darwinports and applying the patch [...]
Rails still doesn’t offer a very good test coverage tool. Sure there’s rcov but it’s painfully slow, and I found it to be quite inaccurate, though to be fair I have only played with it a little bit. The other day I stumbled across a cool way to do test driven development with rails, right [...]
So here we are in Java 5, some ten years later, we finally have a sugar coated syntax for for loops.
for (var : Collection) …
Now the embarassing thing is, even Visual Basic had a For Each construct like 8 years ago. Java seems like A Tale of Two Cities, a book for which Dickens [...]
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