I just came back from Burlington Ruby Conf, an amazing two day conference focused on the hallway track. Seldom have I been in the company of such an engaged community of developers. Thanks so much to all the organizers who made this event possible. Special thanks to WePay for sending me and the ScoutCoffeeVT coffee […]

So you have a Rails Application. And you decide that you don’t want to be the chum who puts all his eggs in one basket and every time your data center goes down. Luckily for you, there’s some cost-effective solutions to move you closer to your goal of 99.99% uptime. Today we’ll answer the question-How […]

Update on the Floppy Drives: Rackspace’s @waynewalls: @scottefein, if you’d like a floppy drive to perform an Office Space penny skimming scheme at Initech, we could probably help I had the pleasure today of attending Rackspace Solve, a new Rackspace conference focused on showcasing Rackspace success stories. While arguably incredibly self-promoting, I learned a lot about […]

So you have a Rails Application. And you decide that you don’t want to be the chum who puts all his eggs in one basket and every time your data center goes down. Luckily for you, there’s some cost-effective solutions to move you closer to your goal of 99.99% uptime. Let’s start with your database […]

Just got back from Austin on Rails, an AWESOME meetup at the Capitol Factory in Downtown Austin. I was fortunate enough to get to speak about a topic I really enjoy, and that’s building redundant architecture for Rails Applications-“How to Zombie Proof Your Rails App”. Over the next few weeks, I’ll be taking several of […]

Back in the Bay Area after an awesome 3 days in Kansas City for Midwest.io. We went to the moon and back twice, learned about databases that will make your ops life boring, got a crash course in Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks (MANETs) and even watched Avdi Grimm harness his inner Jamie Hyneman while using Bash to […]

So I’m heading to Kansas City, MO this week. I’ve even learned that MO stands for Missouri, not Montana (thanks @avdi).  Truly excited for the inaugural, cross disciplinary conference smack in the middle of America. Whenever I’m in a new city, I like to make a list of places to try and hit (and even when I […]

For the past year or so I’ve been working at the Purpose Foundation, developing and scaling the open source Purpose Platform. And after 12 months and many sleepless nights, the platform is in a much happier place than it was when I started. Especially now that Purpose LLC hiring a substantial team to take it […]

We’ve all inherited projects, either when starting new jobs or taking on new clients, that might have been untested, hard to test, or had poor/untrusted test coverage. This creates significant challenges when learning what the code is suppose to do, before you even try to improve, add, or make changes to what’s there. You have to […]

A post for the blog series “Development Notes: Made Public”, where I post things it took me forever to Google for my own use, and perhaps someday yours. Today I was hacking on my parrot drone and ran into a problem installing QRAR.  What QRAR does is it detect QR Codes that your drone sees […]