Strange HTTP Performance Variations Between OS’s
[2013-12-19 I let latentsee.com lapse but you can still install latentsee on your own webserver]
Recent posts
TCP and the Lower Bound of Web Performance - John Rauser
I was fortunate enough to be in the room for this talk by John Rauser at Velocity 2010. I realized a few minutes in that this talk was (a) super interesting ...
Latency is a Killer
If you’re hosting your website overseas you might want to rethink. I’ve been doing some research on the true impact of hosting Australian websites in the U.S...
Chrome is Most Popular Browser!
At least amongst visitors to my blog yesterday.
Asset Fingerprinting with Paperclip
Update: My Asset Fingerprinting patch was included in paperclip-2.3.4 in Oct 2010. Thanks jyurek!
Growing your Xen guest disks with xen-resize-guest
This morning I woke to a notification from nagios telling me the disk was full on one of the slices I manage for a client. I knew what I had to do. As we run...
cherry picking git commits
I’ve been a little bit slow to learn git. I put that down to it being my fourth version control system (after rcs, cvs and svn). Like a fourth child[1] it br...
How to use deprec-1 when deprec-2 gem is released
[2013-12-19 I’ve not done any work on deprec in the past few years]
Getting monit to restart mongrel after a crash
An annoying aspect of the Mongrel webserver is that it refuses to start if it detects a stale pidfile. This causes real problems when you’re trying to use so...
OmniFocus - GTD for OSX
Being a fan of Dave Allen’s personal productivity book “Getting Things Done”, I was excited to hear that The Omni Group are working on a tool I can use to im...
Capistrano and Rake
Last night I read the chapter on automation in Tom Limoncelli’s book, Time Management for System Administrators. He spent a lot of time extolling the virtues...
Using rails-1.2.3 with Rails 2.0 Preview release installed
Rails 2.0 Preview has been released, along with a great summary of changes it includes:
Slides from my talk on Jester
Update: I’m using jester-1.3
Rails GIS Hacks slides
I’m excited by the content of these slides from the Rails GIS Hacks talk given on Monday at RailsConf Europe. Shoaib Burq and Kashif Rasul from Nomad Labs d...
Simply Jestful
Update: I’m using jester.js version 1.3.
deprec acts_as :desirable?
A search for deprec on technorati turned up this job ad that listed “Capistrano, Deprec, Monit” among the desirable skills. It’s motivating to see deprec bei...
Vim Syntax Highlighting for Rails
A couple of days I updated the font settings in terminal.app on my mac. It’s now in line with textmate using Anti-Aliased 14 point DejaVu Sans mono.
Deprec Plugins using gem_plugin
I just added automatic plugin loading to deprec2 using Zeds gem_plugin gem. Now, a number of people have been asking if deprec will support other linux distr...
Pretty Code Samples in Presentations
Today is deprec day (well, the start of a deprec long weekend actually!).