http://www.lukemelia.com Thoughts from software developer from New York City who attempts to live every day with passion. Sun, 17 Jan 2010 15:46:22 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Redis is one of the most interesting of the NOSQL solutions. It goes beyond a simple key-value store in that keys' values can be simple strings, but can also be data structures. Redis currently supports lists, sets and sorted sets. This post provides an example of using Redis' Set data ... http://www.lukemelia.com/blog/archives/2010/01/17/redis-in-practice-whos-online/ At Weplay, we recently switched our Ruby interpreter from MRI 1.8.6 to REE 1.8.6, and have seen dramatically improved response times (reduced by ~40%). As of now (October, 2009), EngineYard doesn't support Ruby Enterprise Edition, so we had to go it alone. This blog post documents our configuration. We run in EngineYard's ... http://www.lukemelia.com/blog/archives/2009/10/08/running-ree-at-engineyard/ I thoroughly enjoyed Gotham Ruby Conference (GoRuCo) this past Saturday. Excellent mix of talks, smooth flow of the day, and a intelligent, friendly crowd. Congrats to the organizers for pulling off a great conference a third year running! One thing I've learned about myself is that I get more out of ... http://www.lukemelia.com/blog/archives/2009/05/31/goruco-notes/ At my first conference since last year's GoRuCo. I have a second daughter, Jemma, since then, and no blog posts. Hoping I can use this occasion to engage more! Credit to @sd for the photo. http://www.lukemelia.com/blog/archives/2009/05/30/goruco-2009/ I've been really enjoying working with jQuery and the pattern of progressive enhancement. But I haven't been enjoying supporting both Prototype/script.aculo.us and jQuery on in the same web app. It felt downright wrong to make my visitors download all that javascript. So, this weekend, I set out to eliminate the last of ... http://www.lukemelia.com/blog/archives/2008/05/18/5-tips-for-porting-javascript-from-prototype-to-jquery/ Gotham Ruby Conference was yesterday at Pace University. It was a great day - kudos to the organizers. If you missed it, check out the video from Confreaks when it is posted. UPDATE: A few more conference pics, courtesy of Sebastian, including some of the afterparty/hackfest, where Jeanhee & Chiara came ... http://www.lukemelia.com/blog/archives/2008/04/27/my-badge-from-gotham-ruby-conference-2008/ After listening to Ryan Davis' inspiring talk, "Hurting Code for Fun & Profit" at GoRuCo today, I wrote this rake task to figure out what code to hurt. It looks though your git log, and takes the 15 .rb files in your Rails' app/ directory and runs them through flog, ... http://www.lukemelia.com/blog/archives/2008/04/26/finding-code-to-hurt/ lmelia$ history 1000 | awk '{a[$2]++}END{for(i in a){print a[i] " " i}}' | sort -rn | head 184 git 122 script/story 64 rake 26 sudo 12 dig 11 cap 9 script/rstakeout 9 sc 8 ./script/story 5 history http://www.lukemelia.com/blog/archives/2008/04/22/the-not-so-interesting-life-of-my-terminal/ The startup I work for, weplay, opened our beta to the public on Tuesday night, just a few hours ahead of a New York Times article about us. It's been an insane couple of weeks leading up to this launch, and I'm happy it's behind me, though it was fun ... http://www.lukemelia.com/blog/archives/2008/03/27/weplaycom-has-launched/ We released Tracks 1.5 today. Tracks is the open source Rails app for implementing the Getting Things Done system. I contributed heavily to this app in the too-long time since the last stable release. Big kudos and thanks go to Reinier Balt in the Netherlands, who contributed some great statistical ... http://www.lukemelia.com/blog/archives/2008/03/27/tracks-15-is-out/