Messaging and Ruby (Part 1) – The Big Picture

by Kenneth Kalmer on July 7, 2008

Rails doesn’t scale. Now that I have your attention, lets forget scaling all together and instead start focusing on how you can give Rails a break using messaging or ‘backgrounding’. This is the first in a series of articles where (…)

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Looking forward to a week of BIND DLZ hacking

by Kenneth Kalmer on July 6, 2008

As part of keeping everyone up to date on the project, I’m posting this quick update on the coming week’s hacking on the project. Last week we hit a critical bug in Tupa where we cannot use template records that (…)

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Capistrano Presentation @ TUT

by Kenneth Kalmer on July 6, 2008

Yip, its yet another Capistrano presentation… Grab it here. I had the fortunate pleasure of guest lecturing at the Tshwane University of Technology a couple of weeks ago on Capistrano. The class was a group of final year students that (…)

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Firefox 3 and the apparent random SSL errors

by Kenneth Kalmer on July 2, 2008

Strange days we live in, especially when our browsers trip of bugs in encryption libraries on the servers… David Smalley neatly pointed out how upgrading OpenSSL to at least 0.9.8h solves the cryptic Firefox 3 SSL errors we’ve been seeing (…)

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