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SimplyStored and CouchDB

almost 2 years ago by Jonathan on BlogFish - Blog.
Yesterday I gave a presentation about CouchDB and SimplyStored, our convenience Ruby library, at the Ruby User Group Berlin. There is a recording of...

Frozen Rails 2010

almost 2 years ago by Jonathan on BlogFish - Blog.
Although Berlin looks a bit like Antarctica right now, I'm really looking forward to travel to Helsinki, Finland for Frozen Rails on May 7th. ...

Ruby En Rails 2009 Recap

over 2 years ago by Jonathan on BlogFish - Blog.
The last past days in Amsterdam for Ruby En Rails 2009 were really great. I arrived on Thursday and had the chance to discuss a possible security vulnerability...

Amazon EC2 HighMemory Instances

over 2 years ago by Jonathan on BlogFish - Blog.
Very very nice: 34.2 GB RAM and 68.4 GB RAM instances on EC2 # free -m total used free shared buffers cached Mem...

Webistrano/Capistrano problem with git

over 2 years ago by Jonathan on BlogFish - Blog.
Recently I helped a friend debug a problem when deploying with Webistrano/Capistrano. He was using a git repository and used SSH keys for authentication...

Ruby on Rails Security

over 2 years ago by Jonathan on BlogFish - Blog.
Recently I've been made aware of people inside US Government organizations using my Ruby on Rails Security presentation as an excuse to limit Ruby on Rails...

Rescue exit

over 2 years ago by Jonathan on BlogFish - Blog.
While debugging an unrelated problem in Nanite I've stumbled over this feature in Ruby: You can rescue the call to Kernel.exit. Calling exit will...

Fragement Caching Tip

almost 3 years ago by Jonathan on BlogFish - Blog.
We are in the process of testing the new version of MeinProf.de and crossed a very interesting bug. We are using fragment caching to speed up the serving...

Scotland on Rails 2009 Slides

almost 3 years ago by Jonathan on BlogFish - Blog.
I know, it is a bit late, but here are my slides from Scotland on Rails: Advanced DeploymentView more presentations from jweiss. The slides are...

What to put into Rake tasks

almost 3 years ago by Jonathan on BlogFish - Blog.
As a consultant for Peritor I often review other peoples code. What I often encounter and always address is custom logic in Rake tasks. Rake is...