Typo
I am in the process of migrating my blog to Typo. Blosxom has served me well, but I think it's time I joined the ranks of cool blogs and allowed people to comment, trackback, etc. Blosxom can do all...
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I'm writing a little photo gallery of my own, because everything out there stinks. But sending big images files in Rails (using send_file and send_data) is slow, mostly because you tie up a whole rails...
View ArticleSend it to Obedience School
I have a little rails app that can have a lot of images on each page. It worked fine in development, but when I went to deploy it with mongrel behind apache's mod_proxy, it started behaving oddly. It...
View ArticleRails Sessions
I was doing some maintenance on my blog, and was devastated to find that Typo was taking 225 megabytes of resident RAM. Yikes! After some creative debug thinking and digging I figured out it was due to...
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A friend of mine is struggling to grok the MVC pattern. I remember when I first tried to grok it how frustrating it was. There wasn't one final "a-ha" moment when I grokked it, but one day I looked...
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