One of my favorite lines from the musical Camelot: “Winter is forbidden 'til December . . . and exits March the 2nd, on the dot.”
Another tale about Rails scaling
Another tale about Rails scaling. TJ Vanderpoel is currently preparing a case study on how he scaled his mortgage processing application with a single lighttpd web server powered by a cluster of FastCGI application servers. All using Ruby on Rails. But as a counterpoint to the latest round of FUD’ing, he posted this preliminary tale… Continue reading Another tale about Rails scaling
Lock up your Daughters (and Sons, and their friends)
Lock up your Daughters (and Sons, and their friends). Tonight I happened to be in a room where a commercial for Fox News was on the television. I heard a teaser for a news item – a curfew has been proposed for teenagers in New York City. Appalled at such an idea, I flew to… Continue reading Lock up your Daughters (and Sons, and their friends)
Where are you now GW?
Where are you now GW?. George Washington’s foreign policy: “a foreign policy of armed and vigilant neutrality (i.e., commerce and friendship with all, entangling alliances with none).” [Curiouser and curiouser!]
Understanding Administrative Templates
Understanding Administrative Templates. Administrative templates are a key management component of Group Policy on Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Windows Server 2003. Mitch Tulloch, author of Windows Server Hacks, shows you how they work and how to use them. [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service]
Four Days on Rails
Four Days on Rails. Four Days on Rails is a 40 page introduction to useful Rails techniques and where to go on the web for more information. Rails is well documented on-line; in fact, possibly too well documented for beginners, with over 30,000 words of on-line documentation in the format of a reference manual. What's… Continue reading Four Days on Rails
Ten Best Intranets of 2005
Useit.Com: Ten Best Intranets of 2005. Selecting the ten best intranets gets harder every year because the number of great designs keeps increasing. While tough on the judges, this is good news: it shows that the intranet usability movement is winning. [Tomalak's Realm]
Protect your site from Google's new toolbar [updated]
Protect your site from Google's new toolbar [updated]. To the delight of gadget freaks and the consternation of some designers, Google's new Autolink feature sticks links on your site that you didn't put there. You can't fight City Hall, but if it freaks you out to have anyone (even nice Google) sticking links on your… Continue reading Protect your site from Google's new toolbar [updated]
Jef Raskin
Jef Raskin. Jef Raskin, the man who started and inspired the Macintosh revolution, passed away peacefully on Saturday. [MacInTouch]
On Social Security: Fun With Numbers
On Social Security: Fun With Numbers. The Social Security debate rages on. Clearly, changes are necessary, but which ones? [The Motley Fool]