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Posts Tagged RailsConf

Refactotum Rails Conf 2008

I’m in Portland for Rails Conf with over 80% of the Relevance crew. We were testing out our “plane number” yesterday, but thank goodness American didn’t let us down.
We’ll be speaking today at about how to contribute to open source at Refactotum from 1:30 to 5. We will cover some tools to help […]


RailsConf 2007 - Memcaching Rails - Chris Wansrath

Chris Wanstrath helped scaling gamespot
had to turn off gzipping to avoid burning the cpus
3000 req/seconds
50M pages in the day, no downtime
Chris is a sloppy programmer (jk)

a distributed hash with no each or keys – just get and set
written in c – fast

at first – you dont need memcached – YAGNI
unless you really do need it […]


Portland RailsConf 2007 brain dump

Since getting in Portland I haven’t much time to sit down and think or really write, but here’s a quick brain dump, as I have like 4 blog entries queued up that I’m finishing…

portland is a great city
ive walked like 10 miles since Monday
portland is kind of like a bigger madison, with about 10x as […]


RailsConf 2007 Google Map

I’ve created a RailsConf google map with some things near the convention center that attendees might be interested in.
I have some local restaurants, brew pubs, Powells, the bike rental place, a mac shop, the Jupiter hotel, and a couple coffee shops.
Any suggestions for additions? Or maybe its publicly editable? I’m not […]