middleman-s3_sync 3.0.12 released
I pushed a new release of middleman-s3_sync to Rubygems this morning. This build resolves an issue where the sync crashed when the bucket contained objects named like directories.
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Frederic Jean Exporting Articles from Posterous to Middleman Blog
Posterous is about to shut down access to the web site. They do provide a facility to backup your space’s content. It works. You end up with a zip file with your whole content and what appears to be a Wordpress export file. It wasn’t quite ready to import...
Read More...Go Static Young Man!
There are many options available for blog posting. There are SaaS solutions where the blogging infrastructure is managed for you. There are a few self-hosted solution where you (or your organization) is managing the infrastructure of your blog. Either...
Read More...Relaunching My Blog
I have left my blog dormant for about 3 years now. There aren’t good reasons or excuses to have done so. I just focussed my energies on other activities and outlets (mainly Twitter and Facebook.
The upcoming demise of Posterous made me rethink how I...
Read More...Release Earlier, Release Less, Release Often
I have read Markus Karg's "Release late, release rarely" three times today. The title itself is provocative and it was linked to by a person that I work with and respect.
I do believe that the author gets a few things right. You do need to build quality...
Read More... Principle vs Principal
Updated on 5/2/2013. Many thanks to Mike Ditto for pointing out that I had made a mistake in the original article and used the principle definition twice. I have updated the article with a better definition for principal.
I constantly see principle and...
Read More...The Case of the False Blank
Stu Halloway tweeted about the following Pastie earlier today:
He questioned the counterintuitive result of blank? returning false on an empty Java array. He then asked which whether Ruby, JRuby or Rails were the culprit.
I played with the Rails console...
Read More...Application Performance Improvement Is an Iterative Process
My first mandate when I joined Project Kenai was to improve it's performance. Kenai wasn't known for being speedy back then. We had some serious performance issues with both page rendering in the browser as well as generating the content on the server...
Read More...Yes, Developers Should Twitter
I firmly believe that any developer who doesn't use the different tools available to communicate outside of the bubble that is the people they work with or the company they work for is short changing him (or her) self.
These tools are varied. Twitter...
Read More...Configuring Multiple Connection Pools with JRuby MemCache Client
The JRuby MemCache Client uses Greg Whalin's Java based MemCache client to connect to the servers that implement the MemCache protocol. This client uses a connection pool to connect to and communicate with the memcached servers.
There is one pool by...
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