Will Read's blog
Interesting Things
- Amazon, in a push to make "cloud computing" a tangible concept, deployed blimps as part of its new FACE service which supports 65K+ EC2 instances, with 40% of their power being generated from solar cells on the blimp surface. San Francisco pivots seemed to like the idea that a data center could be earthquake proof given a recent shakedown in the south bay.
Interesting Things
- There's a new release of Desert which includes a method
Desert::Manager.require_all_filesadded by Brian Takita which does eager loading.
Help
"Overriding attributes in form helpers seem to be skipped, and the attributes in the database are used instead. Is there a reason this behavior makes sense?"
Adam will be submitting a patch that allows overriding of attributes. It as mentioned that the existing behavior might be useful in the error case of a pre-coerced form.
Interesting Things
- v802 of RubyMine does not auto save when focus is lost. A bug report has been submitted. Along those same lines, RubyMine is nearing a public release, now is your chance to vote up any features you want to see. Cucumber support was explicitly mentioned.
- Rails has been selected for Google's Summer of Code. While we may not be students, there are opportunities to be a mentor.
- Be wary of an ad provider: Some ads will redirect your users to unwanted destinations. Placing the ad inside an iframe will let the ad do what it wants to do, without hurting your user's experience.
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