January 2012
4 posts
Building a Performant API using Sinatra, MongoDB,...
Background
Several months ago I created zipasaur.us to serve up postal code data in an easy to digest manner. I threw together a naive implementation in several hours and moved on with life, hoping to return for some cleanup at a later time. I finally had a chance to go back over the application and make some simple changes that dramatically improved performance. This blog is an overview of the...
RT @jeffdachis: “Brands don’t want banners; they want deeper engagement through social media” via @adage http://t.co/h2zjyEaD
great read about history and woes of modern liberalism: http://t.co/ymUyxuOh
Happy new years everyone. Looking forward to killing it in 2012.
December 2011
6 posts
godaddy’s SOPA support was just a trigger. won’t matter how much they backtrack, users have been dissatisfied for a long time
RT @ChrisTeso: CNN cuts over 30 seconds of the interview to make it seem that Ron Paul was storming off. Reddit: http://t.co/Q7JC0ZPt
excellent night with all the folks at @upstartlabs
Social Business Index Inside Scoop - San Francisco http://t.co/611UHPqx via @dachisgroup @ DGSBI
Re-reading Seth Godin’s Bootstrapper’s Bible: http://t.co/ADWeJ1Be.
RT @al3x: “The world faces critical problems & none of them will be resolved by investors with time horizons measured in months” http:// …
November 2011
12 posts
cassandra benchmarks from netflix: http://t.co/8INS8rnC
if this doesn’t make you crave radical tax reform, i don’t know what will: http://t.co/4Ziz2HQB
merged a rewrite branch last week: 275 files changed, 6490 insertions(+), 5584 deletions(-)
ruby implementation of beeswithmachineguns: http://t.co/0PpqKQev
.@Apigee github api console gives me a redirect loop: http://t.co/66pO6OxK
.@Spotify tired of the offline errors on android. Fix coming soon?
PG on wealth vs. money and the startup lifestyle: http://t.co/c5O4F9gX
.@ducksboard fantastic! looking forward to it!
.@ducksboard any chance of github widgets soon?
checking out @ducksboard to perhaps use for internal insights: http://t.co/KORrTgG1
RT @spenceralex: Tests of the Time - As coughs and sniffles echoed through Hogness Hall this morning, as I sat through yet… http://t.c …
A Life, and Medicine: Tests of the Time →
alifeandmedicine:
As coughs and sniffles echoed through Hogness Hall this morning, as I sat through yet another exam. The furrowed brows and scratches of freshly sharpened #2s were the only applause as our wits were tested on the three different subjects we’re currently studying (Histology, Biochemistry, and…
October 2011
10 posts
A lovely glimpse of the future, but I’m not sure I see #microsoft going from http://t.co/FDMWC45P to http://t.co/4IP69AwX
RT @kenichi_pdx: GET /?action=foos&fooId=n #youfailrestforever
3 tags
WatchHow To Setup SSL + Thin + Facebook for Development
LINKS
How to create a self-signed certificate
COMMANDS
Make directories
`mkdir ~/.thin`
`mkdir ~/.thin/certs`
`cd ~/.thin/certs`
Generate certificate and key
`openssl genrsa -des3 -out server.key 1024`
`openssl req -new -key server.key -out server.csr`
`cp server.key server.key.org`
`openssl rsa -in server.key.org -out server.key`...
A Life, and Medicine: Art of a Good Mistake →
alifeandmedicine:
If life is an art, then I’m barely beyond finger paints. Lines appear to dash in front of my strokes, often resulting in a hodgepodge of color. But sometimes it works, and a masterpiece is born of the chaos. So should we have pride in these occasions? Should we credit ourselves for…
so tired of Flash’s Security.allowDomain(…)
A Life, and Medicine: ... Good Work →
alifeandmedicine:
A day of classes, a 3hr drive turned 6 hours by Seattle traffic, I arrived to a note left for me. It meant an alarm was set for 7:45am just for me and precious few hours of sleep on my first day off of studies in 3 weeks. The next morning I was heading crabbin with my uncle, because that…
RT @wbruce: I’d be cool with the anti-Science crowd if they just gave up everything Science has given them. It’s a fair deal. Computers, …
RT @alexparish: HOT TIP: Turn your iPhone into a Blackberry by selecting Airplane Mode.
RT @dachisgroup: Disruptive Shifts: Mobile, Cloud, Consumerization, Big Data dach.is/nVfhZS (@dachisgroup @dhinchcliffe)
RIP Steve
September 2011
4 posts
tutorial for running wordpress on heroku is itself a heroku app running wordpress o_0 http://t.co/LDILknBn
interview w/ ashton on his investment strategies. maybe it’s just a show, but I really like his humble disposition http://t.co/04Asijp
omg. i love it. symphony of science: http://t.co/Gp5Lg8r
BS security theater. good vid on #cnn http://t.co/MLffTMU
July 2011
3 posts
Dodgy heroku node performance turned out to be my own idiocy. Thanks heroku for the support on irc.
booo node app only serving 5 req/sec on heroku ;(
http://t.co/5J72Zgy
June 2011
5 posts
Random. Just passed johnny depp and fam on the street.
A little sunset on the pier. http://t.co/u12178x
R2D2 lunch pail! Jealous? http://t.co/20kMJAc
1 tag
mongodb tidbits
http://slowping.com/2011/ten-things-i-didnt-know-about-mongodb/
no concurrent writes in mongo?! you mean it’s going to get faster?!!!
May 2011
2 posts
i had no idea my refusal to adhere to certain grammar rules was a “movement” http://www.slate.com/id/2293056/pagenum/all
google just solved my music storage/streaming woes: music.google.com #googleio
April 2011
5 posts
early start, protein shake, quick game of black ops, and light workout, punctuated a review of all the great posts on igvita.com
WatchAwesome stuff.
paperwork? yes please.
4 pages of paperwork for each piece of OSS we’re using? of course i want to fill those out.
ec2-backed cloud hosting: race to the bottom
ec2-backed cloud hosting platforms are the new todo-list apps. look for blog tutorials in the near future.