Category Archives: Miscellaneous

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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Silence = Stupid Busy

So, um yeah, it’s been a little while since my last blog entry.  This is to say that I’m still here, things have been too hectic but I’m starting to get a handle on everything again.
I was already quite busy when everything stepped up a couple of gears around February due to going into business [...]

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Wellington based website optimisation group

Something I get asked about a bit and which gets suggested for WellRailed meetings is the topic of optimisation, in particular using MemCache and infrastructure design.  While someone could present on these and other relevant topics within the bounds of Ruby on Rails I think it would be way more sensible to free presentors from [...]

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Yep, the blog new looks better.

The look and format of this here my blog has just undergone a much delayed overhaul.
Since I occasionally have quite a bit to say, like in my previous entry or this one about where business logic should reside, I’m now only showing excerpts on the index page rather than whole entries.  I’ve also gone though [...]

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Attributes not saving for models with attachments

I was upgrading a client’s application to Rails 2.1.2 from 2.0.x the other day, this resulted in refreshing a number of gems and plugins including will_paginate and attachment_fu.  In doing so I found a stupid problem that I couldn’t find anything about online – it’s a pretty one off unique case so I thought I’d [...]

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    I'm a High Performance Website Consultant specialising in Ruby on Rails deployments. In this blog I cover common problems I've seen and provide insight on optimisation techniques.

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