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by chanks 14y ago
I love Rails, but I strongly disagree with its philosophy of the DB as being just a dumb data store. Two things I would recommend. One, the book Enterprise Rails. It's a few years old, so all the examples are from Rails 2, but the meat of i
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by chanks 14y ago
I switched from ActiveRecord to Sequel about a year ago because I needed good support for composite primary keys, and I've never looked back. It's a phenomenal library, highly recommended.
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by chanks 14y ago
Thanks, Matt. Can you share what the dev plan's row limit is? The blog post doesn't say.
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by chanks 14y ago
It looks like Heroku's dropping the larger shared database offering ($15/month for 20 GB). That's... disconcerting. That means their cheapest production database now is the Ronin for $200 a month, but I have an app going into production soo
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Heroku's new, free PostgreSQL 9.1 development database(postgres.heroku.com)
94 points by chanks 14y ago|25 comments
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Postgres 9.2 will feature linear read scalability up to 64 cores(rhaas.blogspot.com)
262 points by chanks 15y ago|107 comments
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The Most Important Postgres CPU Instruction(momjian.us)
1 points by chanks 15y ago|0 comments
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by chanks 15y ago
I only took a quick glance through the source, but what's with the MongoDB dependency? Is there a chance that what you're using it for could be replaced with Redis? I already use Redis, but I'm hesitant to introduce yet another database int
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Understanding Postgres Durability Options(xzilla.net)
2 points by chanks 15y ago|0 comments
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Speeding up COUNT(*) in PostgreSQL(rhaas.blogspot.com)
2 points by chanks 15y ago|0 comments
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PostgreSQL - Index-Only Scans: We've Got 'Em(rhaas.blogspot.com)
3 points by chanks 15y ago|0 comments
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When systems scale better than linearly(xaprb.com)
1 points by chanks 15y ago|0 comments
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Scalability, in Graphical Form, Analyzed(rhaas.blogspot.com)
2 points by chanks 15y ago|0 comments
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RIP Ingres(it.toolbox.com)
6 points by chanks 15y ago|2 comments
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Password Strength(xkcd.com)
52 points by chanks 15y ago|4 comments
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Why don't relational databases support returning information in a nested format?(programmers.stackexchange.com)
5 points by chanks 15y ago|0 comments
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by chanks 15y ago
Node.js isn't required. You can use any of the seven javascript runtimes that the ExecJS gem supports. https://github.com/sstephenson/execjs
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Sen. Ron Wyden places a "hold" on the Protect IP Act(arstechnica.com)
197 points by chanks 15y ago|29 comments
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Doctors and dentists tell patients, "all your review are belong to us"(arstechnica.com)
187 points by chanks 15y ago|76 comments
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Twitter Engineering Blog: Faster Ruby (Kiji Update)(engineering.twitter.com)
15 points by chanks 15y ago|3 comments
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by chanks 15y ago
I should have submitted the original Register article. Sorry about that: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/05/03/woz_talks_patents_an...
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Steve Wozniak Calls Paul Allen A Patent Troll(itproportal.com)
90 points by chanks 15y ago|18 comments
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Rails 3.1 beta 1 released(weblog.rubyonrails.org)
77 points by chanks 15y ago|15 comments
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Google Takes to TV to Promote Browser(nytimes.com)
2 points by chanks 15y ago|0 comments
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by chanks 15y ago
The sticking point for me with Unity was switching between multiple open windows. I typically have a dozen or so terminals and gedit and Chrome windows open across a half-dozen workspaces, but if I want to bring (let's say) a specific termi
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Want to attract top tech talent? Offer telecommuting(management.fortune.cnn.com)
316 points by chanks 15y ago|173 comments
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Rails 3.1 will ship with jQuery as the default JavaScript library(twitter.com)
5 points by chanks 16y ago|0 comments
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by chanks 16y ago
Those are called Safe Haven laws, and every state has them in some form or another. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safe-haven_law
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Judge allows Sony to see IPs of those visiting PS3 jailbreak site(arstechnica.com)
1 points by chanks 16y ago|0 comments
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by chanks 16y ago
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