Category Archives: Features

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Help! I need an advisor

Last year I started a personal project to up-skill in some aspects of web development I was lacking in, like Javascript. I had an idea for a game I’d been bouncing around for several years so I created that. One thing led to another and now it’s become quite a serious project…

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Spandex Memcache Store is now in Rails 2.3

Just a quick note to say that the local cache functionality of my Spandex Memcache Store Plugin has been included in Ruby on Rails 2.3 RC1.  After I released the plugin I was asked to submit a patch to Rails Edge adding it’s functionality – which I did over my Christmas break.  My changes have [...]

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Setting up Postgres + Postgis on OSX

I’ve just installed Postgresql for the first time on my MacBook – it was a pain and wasn’t as simple as it should have been. This is what I did to get it working.

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Starting simple with Rails caching

So, you’ve launched your website and increasingly people are actually using it! Congratulations. Money is probably tight and your server(s) are starting to feel the strain but you can’t buy more – people get turned off by slow responding sites and traffic is $$. What do do?

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I don’t use Foreign Key Constraints with Rails

A couple of months back we had Nigel talking at WellRailed about a Foreign Key Constraint plugin he uses with Rails and then just this week the topic was brought up again for me with a client.  I’ve found it’s something that pops up every now and again.  Given this is such a polarizing issue [...]

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