Joe Petviashvili

WHO SAYS YOU CAN'T TEACH AN OLD DOG NEW TRICKS? COBOL ON COGS IS AN OPEN-SOURCE WEB FRAMEWORK THAT AIMS AT MAKING LEGACY INTEGRATION AS EASY, FUN AND LUCRATIVE AS FIXING YEAR 2000 BUGS.

Oh, I forgot to tell you about this other new feature that we have...

However, what if we took Mongrel out of the equation? Nginx, by default, comes prepackaged with the Memcached module, which allows us to bypass the Mongrel servers and talk to Memcached directly. Same hardware, and a quick test later: ~3,550 more...

"assert{ 2.0 }", a Ruby library, replaces most assert_* functions by one function: "assert". You can pass it a block to assert it's true, and it will automatically generate intelligent error messages when the assert fails.

strongly recommend that you find a vocation in your life where you just really enjoy the act itself. Not just the results, not just the external incentives. The actual work. There's not enough time to spend it doing anything else.

Don't treat the current Rails community as your unpaid vendor. Wipe the wah-wah tears off your chin and retract the threats of imminent calamity if we don't drop everything we're doing to pursue your needs. Stop assuming that it's either more...

Pragmatic application deployment automation, without mercy.

We definitely wouldn't change our choice of framework - Rails was invaluable for rapid application development, and I think we've pretty much proven that two guys without a lot of scaling experience can scale a Rails app up. The whole more...

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Launch your app in three days for USD$30,000 - an estimate how much all this breaks down to in terms of rate per hour, and if it’s a good bang-for-your-buck deal.

a Rails plugin that the world has been waiting for.

“So what are the new compelling JavaScript features in NetBeans 6.1? I'm not going to show everything here, but here's a Rails-focused introduction to some of the features.”

Twitter started as a side project and blew up fast, going from 0 to millions of page views within a few terrifying months. Early design decisions that worked well in the small melted under the crush of new users chirping more...

“Deployment is only a matter of uploading application files. No Ruby on Rails-specific server configuration required!”

Just for fun and profit