Category Archives: Features

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Nginx maintenance page configuration

The process of moving clients from Apache to Nginx is nice and simple except for the ‘down for maintenance’ page. This is my solution to that problem.

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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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