Enhancing Conditional Routing in Rails
Rails’ routing infrastructure supports the concept of conditional routes: preconditions that must be satisfied before a particular route will trigger. Rails 2.1 supports one built-in condition, HTTP...
View ArticleWeb 2.0 Expo San Francisco Spring 2009
March 31 - April 3, San FranciscoLast week's Web 2.0 Expo seemed like a successful event, with a good-sized crowd despite the economic malaise – due in part, no doubt, to unusually aggressive...
View ArticleWeb 2.0 Expo: TV and Radio with an API
National Public Radio (NPR) is changing what it means to be a news organization. While traditional news organizations want to keep their content close, NPR has taken the approach of making content...
View ArticleWeb 2.0 Expo: Web Developer Tools
Ben Galbraith and Dio Almaer of Ajaxian and the developer tools group at Mozilla gave a wide-ranging talk on web developer tools. They noted that the web often seems more like a hack than a platform —...
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Web 2.0 Expo: Social Media
The conference sessions at Web 2.0 Expo had a major emphasis on social media. I only attended a couple of these talks, about which I have brief comments below; at the end of the article, I have links...
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Selling Friends: Scaling a High-Traffic Rails Application
At the recent Silicon Valley Ruby Conference, Friends for Sale developer Alex Le outlined the approach they’ve taken to scaling up to deliver an impressive 300 million page views per month for their...
View ArticleRemote Linux Admin for Windows Users
All the cool kids in the web world these days seem to be using Macs, which have hearts of Unix so are natural complements to Linux-based servers. Others are running Linux desktops. So a lot of the...
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