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Monit makes Mongrel play nice!

over 5 years ago by Ilya Grigorik on igvita.com. [Linked from: zerosum dirt(nap) - Home]
It’s 8am am on a Monday morning, having finished my breakfast I park my enormous coffee mug on the desk, fire up Firefox and point it to my paradigm-shifting...

Tutorial competition at Graphics World!

~5 years ago by Ilya Grigorik on igvita.com.
Earlier today I announced a tutorial competition for holiday CG tutorials at Graphics World! I like to create custom holiday (Christmas, New Year’...

Google/Yahoo Sitemaps in Rails

~5 years ago by Ilya Grigorik on igvita.com.
There are three different strategies you could adopt with regards to Google sitemaps: ignore them, use a third party tool, or create them on the fly with...

Google / Yahoo Sitemaps in Rails

~5 years ago by Ilya Grigorik on igvita.com.
There are three different strategies you could adopt with regards to Google sitemaps: ignore them, use a third party tool, or create them on the fly with...

Block Helpers and DRY Views in Rails

almost 5 years ago by Ilya Grigorik on igvita.com.
Developers tend to spend a lot of time refactoring their controllers and helpers, but once they get to the views (rhtml), more often than not, the DRY ...

Microsoft Vista / Office 2007 Launch

~5 years ago by Ilya Grigorik on igvita.com.
Microsoft hosted a joint launch event for Microsoft Vista, Office 2007 and Exchange Server 2007 at the Toronto Congress Center earlier today. Pretty exciting...

Season’s Greetings!

~5 years ago by Ilya Grigorik on igvita.com.
Happy Holidays! It’s always nice to take a couple of days off and enjoy this time of the year with your family. For a brief moment you can forget...

Visual Database Explorer in Ruby

~5 years ago by Ilya Grigorik on igvita.com.
Last night I wrote a quick database explorer for one of my projects (screenshot above). I had a database of lead stories for BBC, Yahoo News and NY Times...

Reinventing RSS Readers

~5 years ago by Ilya Grigorik on igvita.com.
My RSS reader exploded once again - I can’t help it, when I find a great blog I feel compelled to save it as a reference. Behind each feed stands...

PostRank RSS Filtering

~5 years ago by Ilya Grigorik on igvita.com.
My earlier post on ‘Reinventing RSS Readers’ generated a lot of very insightful feedback. For one, Adam Kalsey made a very good argument for...