Moving Off WP.com

October 7, 2008

So after three months of WP.com, I’ve decided to move back to my own hosted WordPress blog.  One reason for the move was so that I can beta test our Skribit widget, which can now be easily styled to blend perfectly to your site.  Please give it a shot, and shoot us any feedback.  Right [...]

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Running FiveRuns TuneUp in a Separate Environment

October 5, 2008

FiveRuns’ TuneUp is a great tool for profiling your Rails app, but by default it is always running in development. This causes two issues 1) every request is slower in development as it is always collecting profiling data, and 2) the TuneUp bar can mess with the layout of your application, especially if you’re rendering [...]

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Aptana Goes into the Clouds

September 7, 2008

I use Aptana for RoR development.  Not because it’s a good Ruby or Rails IDE, but because I do so much Java at my paying job and switching between Java development on Eclipse to RoR development on Aptana is a breeze.  Today, I was checking out Aptana’s website for updates when I noticed that they [...]

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Problems With Rails Fixture Labels?

July 13, 2008

Newer versions of Rails has a nice feature where you can use label references for fixtures. So instead of: # posts.yml test_post: user_id: 1 title: My Test Post You can do this: test_post: user: quentin title: My Test Post However, if your model class name is in a pluralized form, you might find that label [...]

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25 Things I Hate about Maven

June 28, 2008

I’ve been doing a lot of work with Maven recently, and having a miserable time of it.  Earlier this week I was ranting about it on a mailing list I was on, when I thought it would be therapeutic to try to list 100 things that irks me about Maven 2 that I’ve personally ran [...]

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Build a Comparison Chart with Tablefy

June 18, 2008

I found Tablefy via Lifehacker last night, which is an application that is very much like one of the ideas I wrote about almost 2 years ago.  It’s still rough around the edges (the petfinder captcha is a first for me and is pretty cool, although klunky), but I’m looking forward to using it and seeing what kind of [...]

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Troubleshooting Performance Problems

June 10, 2008

Skribit’s downtime last Monday got me thinking about my past experience with performance tuning.  I’ve troubleshot a lot of performance problems in the past, and here are some things I’ve noticed: It’s Never Just Because Pure Load.  I’ve used this excuse many times before and still mutter it today, but I never truly believe it. [...]

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Moving to WordPress.com

June 9, 2008

I took the time today and moved my blog from a self-hosted WordPress Installation to WordPress.com.  I did this for mainly two reasons: I was tired of keeping up with the constant WP upgrades.  It seems like everything I get around to installing on update, I would have to upgrade a few days later. The [...]

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Pumping on Your Stereo by Supergrass

April 30, 2008

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Some Google AppEngine Thoughts

April 17, 2008

I’m still waiting to get into the GAE beta, but I wanted to share a couple of thoughts about why I think GAE is significant beyond grid computing and making it cheaper for developers to build applications. A New Way of Building Web Applications Today, when we build applications developers have to pretty much understand [...]

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