David Copeland, http://www.twitter.com/davetron5000 Based on his personal experience at LivingSocial, building Payments app. Story of rasonable programmers making reasonable decisions leading to WTF Resque – creating a job that will be serviced by the NewPersonEvent class, given id when run, jam into redis (which is superfast key value store). So this will be fast, way… Continue reading Services, scale, backgrounding – David Copeland – GoGaRuCo ’12
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Naiveté – Chris Eppstein minitalk- GoGaRuCo ’12
talking to an activist, who saw a clearcut field and it broke his heart. “if i had known what i was going to get into, might not have done all fo this.” but no regret in his voice. was happy that was ignorant of what was coming down. resonated with me, because in my life,… Continue reading Naiveté – Chris Eppstein minitalk- GoGaRuCo ’12
webkit/chromium performance @gogaruco12! Cargo Cult Web Performance Optimization – Ilya Grigorik
Tweets by igrigorik Ilya Grigorik rough notes Cargo Cult Web Performance Optimization 3 major components netowrk server browser execution server – rails app server network – shows different & moving components in the network stack. look at some things chrome does for htis browser execution network stack: an average page has grown to 1059kB (over… Continue reading webkit/chromium performance @gogaruco12! Cargo Cult Web Performance Optimization – Ilya Grigorik
Heather Rivers – Linguistic Potluck – crowdsourcing localization in rails!
I LOVED this talk!!!!!!!!!!!!! 4. Heather Rivers – linguistic optluck – crowdwourcing localization with rails @heatherrivers Started w/ Ruby at a startup weekend and discovered the true way (cheers lol). Computer aren’t ready to do natural language processing just yet. Sometimes, we need computers to be able to serve content in different languages. token: “{friend}… Continue reading Heather Rivers – Linguistic Potluck – crowdsourcing localization in rails!
Building a Rails Engine – gogaruco12
@ Positive Building a Rails Engine 0.14 11/11/05 – DHH wrote an anti-engine post on the official RoR blog. Basically writing against how we use Rails today (bringing in Omniauth, etc) — thought you should build application-specific solutions because it would be so easy. “the goal of rails is to create a world where they… Continue reading Building a Rails Engine – gogaruco12
Lightning Talks 8/21!
I facilitated the Women Who Code lightning talks at Parisoma on 8/21! Chiu-ki took video, so here they are: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL04E221047CDFB391&feature=plcp
Installing Ruby 1.9.3 — errors and solutions!
We’re using Ruby 1.9.2-p194 for HelloRubyTuesdays at our weekly Women Who Code Rails night! So it was time for me to install 1.9.3. I ran into two errors before I got a successful install, so here’s how google searches helped me fix them. 1. When I first typed $ rvm install ruby-1.9.3-p194, I got this… Continue reading Installing Ruby 1.9.3 — errors and solutions!