> Interesting statistics just came out on AlertSite blog post about performance and response time of various highly trafficked social networks. Unsurprisingly, Facebook is the fastest, and Twitter is the slowest. Facebook has so much more data to deal with, so much media, and so many more users, that it really is a shame for [...]
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> Our Rails3 (beta4) application had one route mapped in config/routes to a Sinatra app, by means of the following route: match ‘/foo’, :to => EndPointApp, :as => :endpoint The route was being defined to run as a Sinatra Application require ‘sinatra’ class EndPointApp < Sinatra::Application post '/foo' do … end end This was working [...]
> I remember one of the early talks at the Canada On Rails in 2006 had a slide showing how many books one needs to read to be able to write web applications in Rails, versus Java. Of course Java side had about 10 books: Java SE, Java EE, Hibernate, Struts/Tiles/JSF, WebServices, Ant, Maven, Eclipse, [...]
>Integer Division with Modulus in Ruby, using Linear and Binary Search
Posted: June 26, 2010 in Ruby on Rails, Technology> I was recently chatting with someone about algorithms, and we were talking about efficient algorithm for implementing integer division with modulus, and how to make it efficient for large integers. The following code snippet shows a class that implements two division methods, linear and binary. I wonder if there is a more elegant way [...]
>Techtarget’s Java ServerSide Symposium 2009 Impressions
Posted: March 22, 2009 in Ruby on Rails, Technology> Just got back from Vegas where between Wednesday and Friday a small-ish java conference was taking place. This was my second one, the first being five years ago in 2004. Of course it’s hard not to compare, and I find myself doing it anyway… I can’t help but feel that the excitement has left [...]
> Obama’s Potential Presidency There is plenty of excitement around Barack Obama’s potential presidency, and I think there’s a lot to be excited about. There’s is an overwhelming feeling among people I talked to in San Francsisco, how Obama is “Our President” — not a poster boy for old money or a powerful family. The [...]
><!– I rarely rant about software. Reliable software is hard to make, and I know this because that’s what I do for living myself. But once in a while I come across such ignorance that a rant is really all I have left. I’ve been coding in Ruby on Rails for over two years now, [...]
>I don’t think it’s a secret that the domain registration business is kinda whack. Just look at all the domain parking companies out there which take “shady business” to the whole new meaning. What I don’t understand is the rationale behind some of the rules that govern domain business. For instance… How does NetworkSolutions Inc [...]
> Yay, blog move is finally complete, and here we are — with a shiny new dedicated blog domain name, and a Blogger/Google-based account. Blogger has gone a long way since I moved to WordPress from my original blogger account. My main reason for this renewed love is the flexibility with CSS/HTML template, domain name [...]
> Last night I upgraded to Leopard. I was a little frightened, because you know, things don’t always go as planned. Especially if you consider that I use my MacBook Pro for music production, in addition to software development in two languages (java and ruby). So how did it go? I opted for an “Upgrade” [...]
