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Re: Create UML diagrams from the command line

bryanl — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 09:44:07 -0000

This is pretty interesting. I will definitely be adding this to my war chest of coding tools.

Re: #yerdoinitwrong episode 1: logging with syslog

bryanl — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 08:46:35 -0000

I'm sure with little toy apps, "tail -f" works. When you outgrow that, you need something better.

Re: litany against fear ¤ by nick quaranto ¤ On Gem Forking

zimpenfish — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 03:18:53 -0000

People don't like enforced change without warning onto a new scheme that makes their lives a little more difficult whilst being told they were doing things the wrong way before and this is The Right Way Even Though It Chafes.

Re: litany against fear ¤ by nick quaranto ¤ On Gem Forking

bryanl — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 13:59:39 -0000

I think what it comes down to is people don't like change. Keep up the good work Nick.

Re: http://labs.revelationglobal.com/2009/10/06/mongrel_passenger_unicorn.html

bryanl — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 08:52:06 -0000

I'm curious about throughput as well. In a small test, it appears that our evented mogrels were performing better than unicorn. I don't have any numbers, just resource times in the webkit inspector.

Re: An implementation of a jQuery plugin using BDD

romanandreg — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 21:15:38 -0000

LOL... amen!

Re: An implementation of a jQuery plugin using BDD

bryanl — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 20:29:04 -0000

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=...

Re: An implementation of a jQuery plugin using BDD

romanandreg — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 20:25:40 -0000

uh?... I tried to look for "TATFT" in acronymfinder.com with no results, can you be a bit more verbose please :-), (good job by the way with the screencasts and presentations you have done about tdd/bdd)

Re: An implementation of a jQuery plugin using BDD

bryanl — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 11:25:17 -0000

TATFT!

Re: James on Software | Building clusters in the cloud with conductor

jamesgolick — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 21:03:40 -0000

it's on the way. promise.

Re: James on Software | Building clusters in the cloud with conductor

bryanl — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 19:38:42 -0000

sounds interesting. i demand a screencast

Re: #yerdoinitwrong episode 1: logging with syslog

bryanl — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 22:54:54 -0000

Yes. I'm just working out some content, and then we will have a proper
podcast

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Re: #yerdoinitwrong episode 1: logging with syslog

joegrossberg — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 14:18:52 -0000

You don't. But the majority of Rails sites have a different level of traffic and using Splunk -- unlike reading your log files -- precludes the option of side-by-side debugging via "load the page while simultaneously seeing what appears in your terminal".

One size does not fit all, and a 10 req/s site is atypical.

Re: #yerdoinitwrong episode 1: logging with syslog

bryanl — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 13:35:12 -0000

How do you have real time when you are doing over 10 requests per second?

Re: #yerdoinitwrong podcast is coming tomorrow

bryanl — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 07:22:12 -0000

Actually I said "asciicast". I got the term from here: http://asciicasts.com/

Re: #yerdoinitwrong podcast is coming tomorrow

bryanl — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 07:21:18 -0000

I was wondering if anyone was going to catch that. It is mirrored.

Re: iPhone 3GS upgrade for cheaper

bryanl — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 15:20:43 -0000

I guess this is all moot. I have no will; I've already pre-purchased the phone, and hopefully it will arrive Friday.

Re: iPhone 3GS upgrade for cheaper

bryanl — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 19:54:38 -0000

Sure. Sometimes I give the phone to the kid to use.

Re: iPhone 3GS upgrade for cheaper

Dan — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 19:47:14 -0000

Nice hack do you just pay $10 a month for the unused plan?

Re: iPhone 3GS upgrade for cheaper

bryanl — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 19:22:31 -0000

Sure do. I've had the same number for 5 years now at least.

Re: Sometimes I feel like Agile Hitler

bryanl — Thu, 28 May 2009 11:35:52 -0000

Re: Pair Programming Showdown

bryanl — Wed, 27 May 2009 12:38:05 -0000

I can't believe you came in and Steve Yegge'd my blog. This is a really good reply!

Re: A code journey: from your fingertips to production

bryanl — Wed, 20 May 2009 08:53:11 -0000

Here is my zsh configuration: http://github.com/bryanl/zshkit

Re: I’m Smarter Than Rails

alexch — Fri, 08 May 2009 12:24:43 -0000

I don't think I'm playing semantics. Call it what you like, but Sinatra's scope is vastly smaller than Rails'. Sinatra just does routing. Rails does routing plus views plus ORM plus a whole lot else. Personally, I find that extra stuff oppressive rather than liberating, for several reasons:

(a) personal aesthetics about design (e.g. why aren't views objects?)

(b) too much invisible magic (i like convention, but what's so bad about configuration as long as it's concise?)

(c) Rails' absence of clean or consistent APIs (see my reply to graysky, and also all the many different and undocumented semantics for view helper methods)

An analogy -- admittedly imperfect -- is Sinatra is to Rails as Servlets are to J2EE.

With Rack and Sinatra and enough good gems, and just a little bit of glue code, anyone can write their own little framework. So... what's the point of Rails again?

Re: I’m Smarter Than Rails

bryanl — Fri, 08 May 2009 11:26:22 -0000

I would be to differ. Sinatra is a web framework. Calling it "just a library" is playing semantics.