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Interesting Things
- Auto scaling of Resque workers on Heroku works great! Look for some factored code to come in the future to make setup even easier.
- Be aware of what you name your queues in Resque - there is an implicit alpha-ordering when workers come looking for work. This isn't an issue if your workers and queues are 1:1, but if you venture off the path, then this might affect your ops.
- sunspot_matchers have been gemified. "The goal of these matchers are to make it easier to unit test search logic without having to construct the individual fixture scenarios inside of Solr and then actually perform a search against Solr." Happy sunspot testing!
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- Previously mentioned custom error pages on Heroku are not all that one might hope. In Firefox, your error page renders in an iframe that is only 100px tall instead of 100% of the page height.
And of course, Happy Holidays from Pivotal Labs!
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"What tools can one use to track down JS memory leaks in IE 7/8?"
Interesting Things
- Heroku no longer has the "ouchie guy" when the site is down. You now get a much more plain, less "comic-sans" response page. You can also customize your error page.
- Heroku also appears to have done some work around setting your site in maintenance mode. Hopefully these changes will make going in to maintenance mode more robust than previous experiences.
- Juicer, a tool used for compiling/compressing JS, has a dependency on cmdparse which is currently under GPL. The author of cmdparse is awaiting response from all the committers so that he can release it under a more flexible license.
Ask for Help
"How do I turn off auto-complete in RubyMine? It can be a road block on bigger code bases."
You can crank up the delay so it doesn't auto-complete as vigorously.
Interesting Things
- When consuming the Twitter streaming API (aka "The Fire Hose") if you're not seeing any rate limiting response messages it means you're getting all the tweets possible for your query. No limit!
- Got IE6? Need gradient action? There's a CSS gradient filter that's been supported in IE since 1997.
- Amazon just announced a DNS service, and who doesn't love a good DNS with an API to boot?