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Koz Speaks - Home - May 18, 2008
Congratulations to the rubinius guys on getting our little web framework that could to start up and serve requests. It’s great to see so much experimentation and progress happening in one large and bazaar-like community!
Koz Speaks - Home - May 4, 2008
In this day of multi-core CPUs and parallel programming platforms a common meme amongst developers has become “Is library X thread safe?”. As reasonable as that sounds, it’s actually not a particularly interesting …
Tagged: concurrency, threads
Koz Speaks - Home - May 1, 2008
One of the nice things about the last two and a half years has been working from home. You avoid 90% of the dilbert-style office drama, and the commute is hard to beat. But the nicest thing about working from home is …
Koz Speaks - Home - May 1, 2008
Today I had a few hours to spare and decided to try out Passenger. This blog is hardly a high traffic website, but it has some crazy RewriteRules that I figured would test the limits of the module. Everything appears …
Tagged: rails
Koz Speaks - Home - May 1, 2008
On Friday the 14th of March 2008 Anika and I ‘tied the knot’ in a small ceremony at the wellington registry office. Thanks to all our well wishers, especially the dozens and dozens of twitter messages I received. PS – …
Tagged: love, wedding, once in a lifetime
Koz Speaks - Home - May 1, 2008
If you’re a developer, and read other developers’ blogs, odds are you’ve heard of git. While some of the posts about git are almost absurdly exuberant, there’s no denying that it fixes some of the really hard problems …
Tagged: rails, subversion, git
Koz Speaks - Home - May 1, 2008
The great thing about working with open source is that if you come across a bug, you can fix it yourself. It’s the whole underpinning of the success of the model. Every developer scratches their own itch, and the …
Koz Speaks - Home - May 1, 2008
This started as a comment on Geoff’s post but seemed to justify knocking the dust off this thing. Apparently there are some people who feel that it’s ‘impossible’ to get patches into rails and that the core team …
Tagged: community, performance, rails
Koz Speaks - Home - May 1, 2008
Besides our talk, my most valuable experience at RailsConf was talking with Tobi about the new caching strategy (‘Tobi caching’) he’s using at Shopify. There are a few parts which all work together nicely. Etags …
Koz Speaks - Home - May 1, 2008
My recent trip to Microsoft reintroduced me to a few goings on in “The Enterprise”, which is thankfully something of a dim memory for me. The one thing which always seemed like garbage to me is BPEL (and any other XML …
Tagged: bpel