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Top 100 Rails Sites

Are here, via the always 100% accurate Alexa rankings. I’m guessing this is already out of date, giving how quickly the Alexa rankings fluctuate.
Something that updated this list continuously would be fun to build.
As provided by PJ’s twitter.
SeekingAlpha will be around #5 on there soon…

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This isn’t a black or white issue…

Reason #303 Charter Cable Sucks - Browser Hijack

Lately when I’ve been entering a plain old search query in the address bar of any browser on my mac, I get a useless search page from Charter Cable (my provider) instead of the normal google results:

Apparently Charter does a 302 redirect for any hit that would normally go to the default search page. […]

Gotta love the PHP

Quick - what does this line of PHP do:

@ $value = unserialize($option->option_value);

Look, its an 'at sign'. Hmm...that must be something special. I bet its some really advanced crazy PHP feat...oh of course - its PHP's error control! it tells the intrepeter to ignore any and all errors in that line of code! [...]

My Command line toolkit for Ruby and Linux

Some common aliases and functions that I use, spread across various bash_login and .sh scripts. This excludes a bunch of things that are specific to SeekingAlpha, of course. A lot of this was cobbled together from similar lists and previous coworkers.

# general shortcuts
alias mv='mv -i'
alias cp='cp -i'
alias rm='rm -i'
alias :='cd ..'
alias ::='cd ../..'
alias [...]

Rails 1.2.1 is twice as slow as Rails 1.1.6?

This seems very strange to me - look at the performance between Rails 1.1.6 and Rails 1.2.1 in this performance comparison. The rails code is very simple - just set an instance variable in the controller and render it in the rhtml. How could this be so much slower in 1.2.1? The [...]

Zed and Geoffrey, laying it down, httperf style

I've been waiting for this screencast for awhile. Our team at SeekingAlpha has been doing a ton of work with load testing, performance, and optimization, in both Rails and PHP (ugh). I've used httperf a bit but still don't feel like I really "get it". Its great to see Zed and Geoffrey [...]