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by johnb 15y ago
As we were using EngineYard for hosting at the time, everything was set up for us and we never thought to look it up. We now pay a lot more attention to underlying stack. Just because you've outsourced hosting (either cloud or managed physi
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by johnb 15y ago
It's funny how disk abstractions get you every time. We used to store and process all of our uploads from our rails app on a GFS partition. GFS behaved like a normal disk most of the time, but we started having trouble processing concurre
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Envato + Dev Ops(slideshare.net)
4 points by johnb 16y ago|0 comments
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by johnb 16y ago
We've got one of the most isolated agricultural systems in the world. To even ship grain to or from Australia you need specially accredited ships (I have a friend in Maritime law and it causes her no end in hassles trying to find these ship
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by johnb 16y ago
Part of it is the motivation to return home. I'm Australian, and we've got a fairly intensive customs procedure, but I could care less, I'm an hour or less away from home now. Visting America was a different story though: I'm getting finger
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by johnb 16y ago
The problem with the default git pull is that it treats every "give me what's up on the server" as a first class merge commit. It adds a lot of noise to the commit history if you're trying to differentiate between "oh, this bug fix or featu
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by johnb 16y ago
I definitely see where Patton is coming from. I was heavily bullied early in school, then honed my "too cool for school" smart ass streak and said a lot of mean shit to a lot of people. Once you get in the habit of finding smart ass comment
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by johnb 16y ago
Yeah, I work there... and sometimes the level of trust you're given is mindblowing. It's incredibly motivating, though sometimes a little scary :)
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Lean Manufacturing and Thought Experiments (Ingite Presentation Slides)(slideshare.net)
3 points by johnb 17y ago|0 comments
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by johnb 17y ago
I always make the call on inline callbacks versus observers based based on whether they're critical for the model's state. If your representation of whatever domain concept your model is doing relies on the behaviour in a callback - it belo
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by johnb 17y ago
"insecurity driven development" is probably a good alternate title for TDD, but instead of taking it at it's trollish face value it can generate a good analogy. If you start walking down a dark alley - you start feeling insecure. You've got
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by johnb 18y ago
I'm surprised no one has put a link to http://www.randsinrepose.com/archives/2007/02/25/a_glimpse_a... in yet. I've been the technical reviewer on a lot of hires and found Rand's process fairly similar to mine. I think it's good that he v
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by johnb 18y ago
Yeah - I have a bucketload of problems trying to convince my old man I'm a professional because I don't wear a tie to work. I haven't worn a tie since I worked in a supermarket, and I sure as hell wasn't a professional there.
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by johnb 18y ago
Maybe think of it as uniquely good within your sphere of influence. I'm bottom of the bell curve in generic small talk when you dump me in the middle of a sales conference, but in the context of the IT department I work in, I'm usually put
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Blog Action Day - our startup's NFP side project(blogactionday.org)
5 points by johnb 18y ago|1 comments
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by johnb 18y ago
we cringe at ASP.NET too :)
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by johnb 18y ago
Reminds me of that old Joel on Software article on incentive pay http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000070.html
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by johnb 19y ago
I'm a big fan of using Hpricot + Ruby. I'd say the sites I had been scraping but I doubt my old client wants it to come out :| To get the most bang for my buck (developer time wise) I would visit each site with firebug in inspect mode, hove
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by johnb 19y ago
It's because no one uses REST and then choose to go back to spending days making java axis web services and .net clients play well together with ugly hackish custom soap extensions. Or maybe I'm just venting about my shitty week at work :)
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by johnb 19y ago
although, to go back to high fidelity - the big discovery is that it's not what you like, but what you're like that makes a relationship workable
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by johnb 19y ago
I found that ASP.NET was a good stop off point between writing desktop apps and writing web apps. All the event handling logic and the postback thing meant I could bring most of my desktop thinking across and be productive immediately. The
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by johnb 19y ago
I just went and built something with it - http://alltimetop5.com I'm shocking at busy work for no good reason so I had to wait until a good enough idea came along to motivate me. The first version I just threw out, there were too many ar