December 2008
56 posts
Rails Machine: rake task to switch from Mongrel to... →
Deploying with Capistrano →
Some tips for using Git with Capistrano.
Esoteric Programming Languages: Chef →
Stax Networks: Java on EC2 →
Rabbitbal, RabbitMQ based reversed proxy. →
Smart, and built on top of Nanite.
UKUUG Events: Perl Tutorial/Training in London ... →
Amazon SimpleDB - Now With Select →
Very cool.
Deploying with Capistrano, Git and SSH-Agent →
Via Deepak.
Using Capistrano with EC2 →
Very cool. Git in action, too.
Hans Rosling joins the OKF Advisory Board →
Videos from RailsConf Europe '08 →
Excellent talks from RailsConf Europe. Highly recommended.
Zero-Downtime Restarts with HAProxy →
One million registered users on SlideShare →
Congrats to Slideshare - one of the more pragmatic web startups of the past few years.
The Commoditization of Massive Data Analysis →
New fellow guest blogger, Joe Hallerstein, on Big Data at O’Reilly Radar.
PoolParty: cloud automation →
Ruby AST for Fun and Profit →
I can haz symbol trees? Have a good weekend, everyone.
New BBSRC chief executive enters blogosphere →
A high roller, as part of Nature’s ‘Science Blogging Challenge’. Good going, Duncan.
JS Bin - Collaborative JavaScript Debugging →
Cool. Via Constantine.
HTML-Ipsum →
Via Hacker News, fast becoming required reading.
Google Chrome out of beta →
Cappuccino 0.6: Available Today →
The Khronos Group Releases OpenCL 1.0... →
IronPython 2.0 →
Hot on the heels of Python 3k, IronPython 2.0 arrives.
AJAX Libraries API →
Nice content delivery network for javascript libraries from El Goog.
Introducing Cache Money →
Magic scaling sprinkles, indeed.
EUC2? →
Capsize at GitHub →
Capistrano extension to manage EC2 instance based deployment.
Google Zeitgeist 2008 →
The Great Ruby Shootout 2008 →
Bringing chatrooms to Twitter →
First Look at Opera 10 →
Underwhelming. Is inline spell checking really the best we can do?
Merb 1.0.4 arrives →
“Put TM 2.0 up there with Duke Nukem Forever and be positively surprised the day...”
– Not necessarily good news from Allan Odgaard
The Sole of a New Machine →
Guy Kawasaki visits Zappos.
“Moose is the module bundle that makes Perl relevant again”
– David McLaughlin on ‘How I learnt to love Perl’
“If you haven’t given Passenger a chance yet, now is definitely the time.”
– DHH on Phusion Passenger becoming compatible with Edge Rails
Wolfram Blog : The Incredible Convenience of... →
Via DF, of all places.
Next-Generation Sequencing Informatics stats →
“The secret to making money online”
– For those in Dublin in March, this is a great talk by DHH at the Future Of Web Apps
Traditional Venture Model is “Broken” for Biotech,... →
Alan Frazier on biotech venture. I particularly like the ‘raise their game’ quote.
Designing The Holy Search Box: Examples And Best... →
Amazon Web Services Blog: Paging Researchers,... →
Deepak Singh announcing Amazon’s public data sets.
Iron Man and me →
Splendid story from Adactio. Go Creative Commons, go!
“Is this thing in some way 10 times better than the existing alternative?” he...”
– How To Spot a Breakthrough: Tips from Early Amazon Investor Nick Hanauer
“Chunk Norris doesn’t yield to the block, the block yields to Chunk Norris”
– Ruby, sub 3% usage, but still cracking teh funny.
“Perl 5 is in danger of having no serious long-term future”
– Ovid’s journal on perl.org.
Python 3.0 Release →
The Python 3000 release arrives.
Memories may be stored on your DNA - life - New... →
“EC2’s lack of persistence forces you to think about automating this from the...”
– Ta-da List on Rails 2.2, Passenger And EC2, from 37signals
“The question of what to manufacture was postponed until later”
– Original Business Plan 1937 - From the HP Archives