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More and more studies are published every day on the exceptional benefits of napping. Today I found a great link on del.icio.us that gives a great overview of different lengths of nap times and their benefits on cognition. Naps reduce stress, increase alertness and productivity, boost memory and learning, stimulate creativity, and boost the immune [...]
For some Friday fun….I’m not picking on the Apache foundation. But, see if you can guess which products are being described below. Taken from the first paragraph descriptions of four different products.
The open source movement has fantastic engineers. Now what we need are some marketing minded people to devise clear and concise mission statements for [...]
A new section of the Yahoo Design Pattern Library (YDPL) is on Social Reputation. Besides having a nice library of software/UI patterns at the YDPL, apparently they’re doing social behavior patterns as well.
Yahoo identifies five different competitiveness levels for social communities (Caring, Collaborative, Cordial, Competitive, Combative) and recommends different ways of handling reputation in your [...]
Disclaimer: This post contains evil (but highly fun!) code. Proceed at your own peril…
I was recently designing an application that needed to execute some long running requests against an external host. If you’ve ever tried doing something like this in Rails, you’ll find your mongrels will block up waiting for the request to complete, bringing [...]
If you’ve deleted a bunch of files in your directory, here’s a handy bash alias to git rm the changes into your index.
alias gitrm=”git stat | grep deleted | awk ‘{print $3}’ | xargs git rm”
Update: turns out git add -u takes care of deleted files.
Sometimes you have a data migration that creates or modifies records in some way, and you would like to test it in your unit tests right? Except that Rails typically just clones the structure of your dev database, not its data. So how do you test that a migration succeeded? Simple, just invoke it during [...]
If you search for your site in google and it redirects to anyresults.net or another spamhole, you’ve been hacked. Here is the discussion of the hack and fixes for it.
If someone emails you with a problem, question, or concern and you don’t have an immediate answer, you have two choices. First, you could defer the email, and let it sit in your inbox for a couple days while you gather the information for a solid reply that answers the customer’s concerns.
Or, you could [...]
Before GitHub, if you had something to contribute to an open source project, you basically had to worry about tracking your changes against someone else’s remote repo, which was usually svn or similar, which was difficult and cumbersome. And even if you did manage to have enough motivation to properly track, format, and email the [...]
My RailsConf slides on virtualization with Elastic Server On-Demand have been featured on the slideshare homepage! Over two hundred views so far. Great to see people are really interested in this stuff. I’ve embedded the presentation in this blog post:
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