PowerDNS on Rails, the saga continues

by Kenneth Kalmer on July 27, 2008

After a misrable production implementation of BIND on a MySQL backend, we were forced to re-evaluate our use of PowerDNS, and what happens to the BIND DLZ on Rails project. I’m glad to announce that PowerDNS on Rails will be (…)

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BIND DLZ on Rails RC1 tagged and iced

by Kenneth Kalmer on July 27, 2008

It is with great excitement, and sadness that I announce the tag of BIND DLZ on Rails RC1. We were very motivated as a team to get this product, and the accompanying infrastructure in place so would could continue to (…)

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BIND DLZ Update: Nearing in on RC1

by Kenneth Kalmer on July 18, 2008

UPDATE (Jul 22, 2008): I don’t have connectivity at home at the moment, so I’ll roll our production systems over to BIND (and BIND DLZ on Rails) from PowerDNS and Tupa in the morning. Based on the initial feedback from (…)

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Google Analytics Plugin for Rails with local cache support

by Kenneth Kalmer on July 17, 2008

Strangely enough this started as a request from Tyler Bird after reviewing my Capistrano presentation. He was interested in learning how I use Capistrano to update external site dependencies, like a local cached copy of the Google Analytics JavaScript files. (…)

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