Archive for November, 2004
Ruby on Rails Session Container Performance
Based on the comment to my last entry I hunted up Scott Barron’s Session Container Performance in Ruby on Rails. After reading it I had a look on my server and found that the PStore had generated thousands of session files. This wasn’t the cause of the performance issue I was having [...]
well, that didn’t go so well
Yesterday I updated my rails install on rubhub.com to the latest release. This was increadibly easy; just a case of typing ‘gems update’ and accepting the dependancy prompts. Unfortunately it seems to have caused some major stability issues. When I restarted apache things initially seemed fine, but then went downhill, with some [...]
soft targets
Some interesting stats on browser usage at rubhub.com; for visitors suspected of being human, only 18.5% were using a version of Internet Explorer. That really surprised me. In related news, the managing director of Microsoft Australia recently suggested that firefox didn’t pose a threat to IE’s marketshare.
——–
rubhub relaunch imminent
I’ve made some dns changes which should deliver the new version of the site, on my new host, when they take effect. If you’re blog is missing from the new version of the site, please add it again; my access to the old database become quite limited over the last couple of weeks, so I [...]
Firefox 1.0
“These things are not easy, but the quality bar has to be set high to be noticed, and in that department I think our focus on detail has paid dividends.”
Ben Goodger writes about the 1.0 release of Firefox.
——–
XFN Enhanced
I’ve finally tricked out this site with a bit of xfn in anticipation of the rubhub.com relaunch. I’m pegging the relaunch for this weekend, assuming I don’t run into any issues seting up fastcgi on my server.
I’ve been super busy for the last few days, and so has Claire. Her christmas cards have [...]