June 25th, 2006
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I enjoy using Ruby On Rails, and my experience with the technology has added a lot to my skill set. RoR has shown me the light by introducing me to Ruby, and demonstrating how software should _really_ be designed and developed. Over the weekend I “contributed a patch”:http://dev.rubyonrails.org/changeset/4494 to RoR that enabled microsecond resolution for Postgresql, and partial support for all other adapters. I was really happy to add this to the RoR code base for the benefit of all the RoR users.
This patch contribution was quite personal. To me, this patch was proof that I made the correct decision by leaving my full time job three months ago in pursuit of something _more_.
There is plenty more out there, and I fully intend on finding it.
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June 24th, 2006
I recently signed up with “ev1servers”:http://ev1servers.net. I’m now the proud parent of a dedicated 2Ghz Pentium 4 box. What’s better is that I originally signed up for a 1.3Ghz Celeron!
Not many weeks ago I signed up with site5 shared hosting. They aren’t bad, but shared hosting by it’s nature forces too many restrictions for an application like msgpad. I’ll stick with the site5 host for my blog, and backup dumps of msgpad though.
I looked at ev1servers, aplus, serverpronto (who I signed up with once before), and serverbecah before choosing ev1servers. They were hands down the best. You just have to check out their “data center”:http://www.ev1servers.net/Datacenters/ to see how serious they take their business.
It came down to winning my trust. ev1servers provide serial/root console logins for every single box they run! So if _anything_ goes wrong with the box, I will always be able to sort it out (provided it doesn’t explode I guess). When you’re not able to physically touch the box, that type of feature is a necessity.
Anyway, now I can run my MSN identity validator on the box, postgresql (yes, you win Michel;), mongrel, and all sorts of other custom processes I couldn’t run with shared hosting!
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June 22nd, 2006
Those not reading my blog in a feed reader will notice that my blog now displays an embedded pad! Those in a feed reader, “check it out!”:http://alexpooley.com
This is pretty much hot out of the repository. Unfortunately I haven’t yet added multiple authentication so you need a msgpad account to chat. If you’re interested in joining up with msgpad then “please register for the beta!”:http://register.msgpad.com
Those with beta accounts at msgpad can create your own public pads if you like! Simply toggle the ‘public’ flag on your pad and whack the URL it displays in to an iframe on any page you like (copy the iframe code from my blog HTML source if you like).
Yep, I hear it too. msgpad is screaming for an API. It’s coming :)
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