November 19, 2008 – 3:19 pm
This post is a follow up to Ruby beanstalkd basics, I will try to make the example code little more interesting and useful. I am calling this is a Ruby beanstalkd intermediate write up, it sets up a few workers and distributes and receives results simultaneously. In this example the code resembles real code a [...]
November 14, 2008 – 10:21 am
I had a funny thought while listening to some music recently and decided I needed to do battle between music mashups and music recognition software.
Shazam is a pretty cool app on the iPhone to help you recognize and find music, it uses the microphone and listens to whatever music is near the iPhone. Shazam then [...]
October 28, 2008 – 2:35 pm
At Devver we have a lot of jobs to do quickly, so we distribute our work out to a group of EC2 workers. We have tried and used a number of queuing solutions with Ruby, but in the end beanstalkd seemed to be the best solution for us at the time.
I have only seen a [...]
October 17, 2008 – 8:45 am
I know everyone has posted a list of the best/must-have iPhone apps. I am sure many people have also posted lists of Apps they would like to have, but it is amazingly fun so I decided I should do it to.
This is my list of apps and solutions I want for the iPhone. They don’t [...]
October 8, 2008 – 8:22 am
Devver has to keep the developer’s environment synchronized with our servers. To do this our Devver client sends all of the project files to our servers. We currently have a EventMachine client transfer files over SSL to a EventMachine server. We went through various stages and methods of sending files with EventMachine before finding a [...]
October 3, 2008 – 10:25 am
I collected all of the Ruby tools posts I made this week into a single roundup. You can quickly jump to any tool that interests you or read my reviews start to finish. If you just want to read a individual section here are the previous posts Ruby Code Quality Tools, Ruby Test Quality Tools, [...]
October 1, 2008 – 10:04 pm
This is the third post in my series of Ruby tools articles. This time I look at Ruby code quality tools. Rubyists like Ruby because the code can look so nice, simple, and sometimes beautiful. Unfortunately not all code is so great, in fact often the code I write doesn’t look good. Fortunately while a [...]
September 30, 2008 – 9:57 am
This is the second post in my series of Ruby tools articles. This time I am focused on Ruby test quality tools. Devver is always really interested in testing, and obviously the quality of a project’s tests is important. We are always looking at ways to add even more value to the investment teams put [...]
September 28, 2008 – 2:35 pm
I have been interested in all of the tools that exist for Ruby developers. I give you the first of a series of posts where I will be looking at some of the more interesting Ruby tools.
Recently a few different Rail performance tools / web services have been released. They are leaps and bounds better [...]
September 27, 2008 – 2:23 pm
Boulder has a lot going on in terms of tech startups. A bunch of Boulder startups got together for a pretty interesting plan. A group of startups will be flying 100 interviewees out to Boulder to interview potential employees and let them get a feel for the city. There has already been some pretty good [...]
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