
Signs that you’re a good programmerYou’ve probably read “signs that you’re a bad programmer.” Well, this article addresses the flip-side of that...
1 replies - 3350 views - 04/26/13 by Eric Genesky in Articles

Over at the Heroku blog, the team published a tutorial for improving performance of Rails apps by using a concurrent server. In this case, they focused...
0 replies - 852 views - 02/28/13 by Eric Genesky in Articles

I’ve been considering the options for hosting my new Ruby on Rails web app. What follows is some thoughts on those options.
I should mention:
I’m not...
0 replies - 1581 views - 02/13/13 by Andy Hawthorne in Articles

The official Ruby on Rails blog recently announced the release of two "extremely critical security fixes" for a major security flaw. In response,...
0 replies - 1331 views - 01/13/13 by Eric Genesky in Articles

Steven Zeiler interviewed Nathaniel Jones, a Heroku expert, in order to discuss how a pro solves challenging problems using Ruby on Rails.
0 replies - 1596 views - 01/08/13 by Eric Genesky in Articles

There are some technologies that have such strong "street cred", they are effectively untouchable. Anyone who dares imply that they are deficient in any way is...
31 replies - 29377 views - 12/03/12 by Shannon Behrens in Articles

At RailsConf 2012, we sat down with five of our customers (including Jesse Proudman, panel moderator and CEO of the Blue Box Group,)
and asked them about the...
0 replies - 3541 views - 07/13/12 by Leigh Shevchik in Articles

Originally authored by Paul Gross and cross-posted on Braintree's blog The NoSQL movement has brought us a wave of new data stores beyond
the traditional...
0 replies - 3140 views - 03/19/12 by Eric Genesky in Articles

Recently, I wanted to sit down a learn ruby (independent of rails), so I
grabbed a fairly standard hacking problem and went to town on it. I
now love ruby...
0 replies - 2811 views - 02/17/12 by Brian O' Neill in Articles

Yesterday, JetBrains announced the release of RubyMine 4.0, which includes upgrades to existing features of the Ruby IDE, as well as some key changes. ...
0 replies - 2241 views - 02/16/12 by Eric Genesky in Articles

A recent post “Rails is Not Your Application” caught my attention. It was fundamentally right, but the suggested implementation was misguided. ...
0 replies - 1889 views - 02/13/12 by Daniel Doubrovkine in Articles

In the last month or two, there have been many great commits to Rails. Last week alone we saw: 0306f82 – implements automatic EXPLAIN logging for slow...
0 replies - 2285 views - 12/07/11 by Pat Shaughnessy in Articles

VMware
is this morning announcing the general release of Micro CloudFoundry, a
downloadable and installable PaaS that can be run on any PC or Mac.
Micro...
0 replies - 1721 views - 08/24/11 by Ben Kepes in News

Amazon's new ElastiCache web service provides a fast, managed, in-memory caching system that is "protocol compliant with MemCached". The new service...
0 replies - 18844 views - 08/23/11 by Ross Jernigan in Daily Dose

The new release of the Ruby on Rails web development framework, version 3.1, will feature HTTP support. This additional support will serve to improve overall...
0 replies - 24127 views - 04/25/11 by Katie Mckinsey in Daily Dose