Monitoring for Humans
Failure is Always an Option
Coffee and the Art of Customer Happiness
The Virtues of Monitoring, Redux
On Pager Duty
A Plea for Client Library Instrumentation
Form Objects with ActiveModel
A Story About Queues in Four Acts
September Reading List
A Culture of Failure
On Resilience in Automated Systems, Failures and the Human Factor
Six-ish Months of eBook Sales: Riak Handbook
June Reading List
Playing with Riak and CRDTs - Counters
Riak Handbook 1.1 is out!
On Notifications, Log Subscribers, and Bringing Sanity to Rails' Logging
February Reading List
Fun with Ruby Block Parameters
A Tour of Amazon's DynamoDB
My Publishing Tool Chain
Holiday Reading List
Storing User Timelines in Riak
List All of the Riak Keys
The Simple Magic of Consistent Hashing
An Update On The NoSQL Handbook
Web Operations 101 For Developers
EventMachine, How Does It Work?
MongoDB, Data Durability and Improvements coming in 1.8
The Virtues of Monitoring
A Simple Redis Use Case for Sorted Sets
Why Riak Search Matters...
Be Humble, and Get Shit Done!
Why I Love and Hate Distributed Systems
An Inconvenient Caveat about MongoDB's Replica Sets (updated)
10 Annoying Things About CouchDB
Relational Data, Document Databases and Schema Design
Vim - A Never-ending Love Story
Presentation Fu
June - A Month of Conferences
Upcoming Conference Talks
Conference Talks You Should Be Watching
ActiveRecord's Callbacks Ruined My Life
Notes on MongoDB
A Collection Of Redis Use Cases
NoSQL And You - Thoughts On Finding Right Partner In Chrime
Redis and Rails sitting on the Couch
Making TextMate And rvm Play Nice
How To Redis
When To Redis
There's Something About Redis
The Shoulda RSpec Extravaganza
How Not To Design An API
The NoSQL Dilemma (with a Happy Ending)
There's Something About Legacy Code
Daily AWS Wtf and German Rails Conference
Ruby 1.9 Tidbits
Smalltalk on RabbitMQ and Nanite
Crumble - Breadcrumbs for Rails Applications
RailsWayCon Slides
RailsWayCon in Berlin
A Ruby Meta-Programming Riddle
Ruby 1.9 Upgrading Woes
Remembering super
The Curious Case Of The Bang Method
run_later Gets Some Rails 2.3 Middleware Love
XRay Goggles For Your Ruby Processes
Parallelizing Capistrano
Mocking Is So 2008
Keep It Simple
When Overusing self Turns Into self.pity
Hello From Jekyll
Cocoa Lessons Learned #1: Threading is Hard
RailsWayCon: Call For Papers
ObjectiveResource: It's Like ActiveResource For Cocoa
Integrity And Passenger Play Nice
New Tools For My Toolbox
Announcing Macistrano: A Desktop-Client for Webistrano
Running Webistrano Tasks Using Capistrano
ScreencastWeek at Upstream Berlin
Raising Test-Awareness
Things to Do in 2009
Things Learned in 2008: TATFT
Refactoring Rails Controllers
acts_as_solr is Dead, Long Live acts_as_solr
Vim - My College Sweetheart
Review: The Ruby Programming Language
JetBrains Releases RubyMine
Why Legacy Code Matters
Why Code Metrics Don't Matter
Merb's run_later Coming to a Thread-safe Rails Near You
Testing Meme
Undefining Class Methods in Ruby
Why Coding Guidelines Don't Matter
Migrating a Project to use Rails UTC-based Migrations
Git Bits: Renaming with Lowercase and Uppercase
Spring's New Maintenance Policy
"i".can.has?("cheezeburger")
Why Refactoring Matters
Django turns 1.0
Why Testing Matters
RailsConf Europe 2008 Recap
Ruby and Rails Book Updates
Git Community Book
Adam Keys Hearts Complexity
Megazoomer Full-Screens your Mac Applications
Missing iPhone Applications
Chris Wanstrath on Side Projects
Merlin Mann on the recent Gmail Outage
Amazon Elastic Block Storage
Stop Using FTP
Rails 2.2 To Be Thread-Safe
The iPhone AppStore
Shameless RailsConf Self-Plug
A Busy Month
Bratwurst On Rails 2008
For The Love Of Light: The Book
Smalltalk on Git
Stalled MySQL Logins
A Small Gem For Web Development on Mac OS X
Git Bits: Things you should know about git svn dcommit
Rails 2.0: It's Done
MySQL No-Nos: ORDER BY RAND()
Every Day Polaroid
Git Bits: Committing Partial File Changes
TextMate + RubyAMP = Unconditional Love
Friday Tab Sweep (21.03.2008)
For The Love of Light
Review: Working Effectively With Legacy Code
Friday Tab Sweep (22.02.08)
Ruby Tidbits: How Private is Private?
Seriously the Most Awesome Photoshop Tutorials Ever
How to Process Multiple ActiveMessaging Queues Concurrently
Amazon S3 is Down
Serializing Data with ActiveMessaging and Filters
Paul Tuckfield on Scaling MySQL
The End of an Era
Friday Tab Sweep (08.02.2008)
Friday Tab Sweep (01.02.2008)
Friday Tab Sweep (18.01.08)
Reading List
Review: "Continuous Integration: Improving Software Quality and Reducing Risks"
CruiseControl in your Menu Bar
Rails/Ruby Books Galore
Mocha and RSpec Don't Play Nice
Friday Links (14.12.07)
CruiseControl.rb and RSpec Play Nice
Dave Thomas on MetaProgramming in Ruby
Friday Links (07.12.07)
A Weird Ruby Bug
Testing Active Web Service with RSpec
MacSanta is Coming to Town
Friday Links (30.11.07)
Singing the Paypal Subscription Blues
Abandon Ship!
RESTful Leopard Spell-Check
"Advancing with Rails" Training with David Black
An Article on Ferret
Using Rails-like Environments with Spring
Do Java's Date Classes Make Any Sense?
The Perils of Using final
RailsConf Europe 2007 Day Two
Best Practices on Rails
RailsConf Europe 2007 Day One
Bratwurst On Rails
Bugs are Magic Tricks
Friday Rails Links
Compiler and Typing Directives for Ruby?
Write Tests for even the Smallest Projects
Why an IDE for Rails?
MarsEdit 2.0 loves Flickr
Friday Rails Links
RailsConf Europe is a sell-out
ActiveRecord and a custom method_missing
Film is the new Black
IDEA still makes Java Fun
Increase Productivity by Reducing Distractions
Friday Rails Links
Inbox Zero
Webistrano Released
Storing Images with Oracle and Hibernate
Random Rails Links
Continuous Integration for Ruby and Rails
Smalltalk on AP4R
Random Friday Links
10 Things I've been Doing Lately
Learning Ten Finger Typing
The Freelancer Survey on FreelanceSwitch
Catching Up
A First Look at OmniFocus
When Will the Web 2.0 Bubble Burst?
Bootstrapping a Web Project with Java and Rails
Announcing Bratwurst On Rails
JRuby 1.0 is out
Smalltalk about BackgrounDRb
Deploying in a chroot Environment with Capistrano
RubyFX Script Announced
Namespacing Your Rails Model - An Afterthought
Microsoft announces IronRuby
Namespace Your Rails Model
The Web Design Survey
CSSEdit Keeps Getting Better And Better
A Fix for Rails 1.2
Multi-Database Connectivity in Rails
Supermarket 2.0
Welcome Aboard
My First Post
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