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• Some pivots are having trouble with a flash embed tag’s scale attribute. The desired behavior is that the movie scale to fit the size of the element. According to documentation, this should just work. The flash content will not scale, instead the content is getting cropped.

• Anyone have experience using Amazon RDS with Heroku?

  Several projects at Pivotal have used this combination with great success.

Interesting

• A project had some intermittently slow queries. The problem was traced back to some large strings in one of the columns. The team solved this problem by overriding the default scope, and only selecting the expensive column when needed.