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The creator of Struts is working in Rails

Kellan — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 19:16:49 +0000

Along with the creator of Ant, this is the slow but undeniable momentum. Nice work after 3 years

http://blogs.sun.com/craigmcc/entry/jmaki_on_rails

Liminal Existence: SELECT * FROM everything, or why databases are awesome.

Kellan — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 16:57:13 +0000

Blaine continues the work of making Rails scale beyond its “for 3000 of your closet friends” default scale. I expect to see some FORCE INDEX patches coming out of some recent chats we’ve had.

http://romeda.org/blog/2007/06/select-from-everything-or-why-databases.html

edd: Launching Expectnation

Kellan — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 17:51:52 +0000

Edd officially launched his conference calendaring app! Congrats! (tho if you came to Xtech you already know it pretty well)

http://times.usefulinc.com/2007/06/01-expectnation

Blaine: Slides for Scaling Twitter talk

Kellan — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 17:08:14 +0000

Blaine’s beautiful scaling Twitter slides. Final chapter in the Rails-vs-Twitter-versy? (And congrats Blaine on becoming a Rails committer!)

http://www.slideshare.net/Blaine/scaling-twitter/

No matter how you might feel about Mark’s “translation”

Kellan — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 01:55:22 +0000

it’s great to see a blogger “get more cutting post googlization”, or at least not go all quiet, and fluffy on us. I was starting to think it was something in the water. (and for the record I want an “Orges have layers” shirt!)

http://diveintomark.org/archives/2007/04/16/dhh-translation

Some EC2, Fedora, Rails, Mongrel, Memcached Links

Kellan — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 06:19:53 +0000

I had done some futzing around with EC2, but ExpoCal is the first web app I’ve brought up and run on it. Also my first outing with Fedora. Some links:

Amazon EC2 Getting Started Guide – very approachable walk through on get EC2 up and running
How I Set Up My EC2 Instance for Rails & Litespeed – bit more specific instructions, not entirely accurate
Fedora Core 6 Lite Base Image – simple, actively used AMI. The Debian images came with too many caveats.
Changing your mysql data directory – /mnt is the new /var
Dead Simple Deployment (with Mongrel and Rails) – basic Mongrel cluster instructions.
Time For A Grown-Up Server: Rails, Mongrel, Apache, Capistrano and You – never had much luck with Pen and co — Apache2′s proxying modules rawk!
Fedora memcache + drupal walkthrough – memcached on Fedora
Howto: rpmbuild – sudo yum install fedora-rpmdevtools
My Rails Toolbox

Also some yum’ed packages:

yum install sudo gcc ruby ruby-libs ruby-mode ruby-rdoc ruby-irb ruby-ri ruby-docs ruby-devel rsync ruby-mysql.i386 mysql mysql-devel mysql-server mysql-admin httpd-devel apr apr-devel apr-util-devel subversion libevent

Twitter, Ruby, and Scaling

Kellan — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 18:25:30 +0000

Alex gave a phenomenal interview on Twitter and Rails a couple of weeks ago. This morning its all over the Net — but folks I think are taking the wrong lessons from it.

Ruby is dead slow. This is not news, though it can be surprising when you’re used to thinking about scripting languages as all being roughly equal.
Rails trades developer performance for framework performance. Also not news, as this has been the mantra of Rails since day 1.

More importantly he gives a quick insight into the how of making social software scale. It’s hard, it has ugly network effects, it makes databases cry. Alex mentions cache like mad. (because frankly no one but the content creator needs to see fresh data)

Also denormalize like mad, federate like mad, and prune features that make your site slow. (and these are the same techniques that they’re working on behind the scenes at Twitter, and that we use to scale Flickr).

You’ll never build a successful site if you build to scale from day 1, scaling is always a catch up game, but it’s the best game there is.

(And yes, this is my all Twitter all the time blog week)

update: Blaine, lead Twitter engineer, is giving a talk on how they scale Rails/Twitter next weekend at the Rudy SD Forum. (which has done a terrible job of publicizing its existence, but has a pretty killer looking line up)

stikkit is out

Kellan — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 03:37:00 +0000

new Portland band, opening for the Decemberists

http://www.stikkit.com/

CHOW.com: Ruby on Rails

Kellan — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 21:19:00 +0000

2 or 3 medium strawberries, thinly sliced, 1 1/2 ounces Plymouth gin, 1 3/4 ounces rose wine, 3/4 ounce Strawberry Syrup, 1/2 ounce fresh lemon juice, 1/2 ounce Pimm’s No. 1

http://www.chow.com/recipes/10707

OSCal now iCalico

Kellan — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 04:42:00 +0000

Bit slow following up on this one, but thanks all for your comments/emails/whatnots suggesting better names for OSCal.

Not sure it counts as better, but we went with iCalico. (which means I really need to get the ical working properly)

And all props to Evan for getting an instance up for EuroOSCON. (as is Rails’ wont, more complicated to deploy then it was to write, really)

Loud Thinking: system( “/usr/local/bin/convert #{escape(temp)} -resize 48×48! #{escape(target)}” )

Kellan — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 06:14:00 +0000

Not how we do thumbnailing at Flickr.

http://www.loudthinking.com/arc/000598.html

Rails 1.1.6, backports, and full disclosure

Kellan — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 21:44:00 +0000

Ugh.

http://weblog.rubyonrails.com/2006/8/10/rails-1-1-6-backports-and-full-disclosure

Boxes and Arrows Event Calendar

Kellan — Tue, 08 Aug 2006 19:27:00 +0000

Attractive calendar of “interesting web-related events”. In Rails.

http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events

Social Scheduling for OSCON

Kellan — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 07:07:00 +0000

It started as a random idea on the train on Friday, but didn’t become real until yesterday afternoon (aka the first day of OSCON) when Rabble and I sat down at Stumptown and banged out a new scheduling app.

OSCAL is a tool for building a list of talks you’re interested in going to, and discovering what talks others are going to. Its a tag-enabled, all social, calendaring app, written in Rails, in about 6 hours. Take it for a spin, we like it.

Version 2.0 may or may not come out sometime tonight, with search, comments, user submitted events, and SMS notifications.

Version 2.0 or not though, the app worked, I’m much more excited about tomorrows sessions, and as you can see deeply divided about what to attend

Morale-O-Meter Goes Public|Social

Kellan — Wed, 31 May 2006 23:19:00 +0000

Erik Benson’s awesome Morale-O-Meter is now publicly available! My favorite tool since Allconsuming (or maybe LoB). Just don’t stab to close to Buzz, that man is wild. (like you needed a webapp to tell you that)

update: So I’m confused, when entering hours slept for a day, is that the hours you woke up with, or the hours you ended the day with? Or maybe just the hours that occured during the 24 hour period. How can I be sure my reporting is accurate!!?!