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Nuance9: Just In Time

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Notes from the front lines of web design & development.

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  • What If Hosting Was a Library?

    Posted on Saturday November 28th, 2009 at 12:40

    # Was thinking, "if hosting was a library, what might it look like..."require 'ProviderX'# We'll pretend we already have an account with fictitious ProviderXhost = ProviderX.new(:user => 'foo', :password => 'secret')# Let's see what ProviderX will al...

  • HAProxy: Routing by domain name

    Posted on Monday November 2nd, 2009 at 20:43 in haproxy

    Without too much effort I was able to find multiple search results that said HAProxy could direct traffic according to domain name. Unfortunately I was hard pressed to find any example configurations demonstrating that functionality. Turns out it i...

  • Tiny email sending service with Amazon SQS

    Posted on Monday October 26th, 2009 at 22:41 in ruby, code

    I found the "Dynamo Paper" by Amazon to be interesting. In particular I liked the idea of small services. Nothing new, but I liked the concept and wanted to play with it. The result was the 71 line SQS Mailer, available on Github.For this experime...

  • Do you spend significant time "off-hours" on tech projects?

    Posted on Wednesday October 21st, 2009 at 12:55

    Do you spend significant time "off-hours" on tech projects?If so, are you driven by passion or fear of becoming irrelevant?Whether driven by passion or fear, does the amount of time involved negatively impact other areas of your life?Would be interes...

  • Abort: couldn't find mercurial libraries

    Posted on Sunday September 6th, 2009 at 20:58 in snow leopard, mercurial, hg, mercurial libraries

    I've been setting up my fresh Snow Leopard installation today.I followed the guide from Hivelogic: Compiling Mercurial on Snow Leopard. The installation completed without issue and 'which hg' showed everything was in place.However, when I tried to i...

  • Typing? I'm a programmer not a secretary.

    Posted on Thursday November 27th, 2008 at 08:00 in programming, code, typing, knowledge investment, continued education

    This last week has seen a few posts on the necessity, or lack thereof, for good touch typing skills.We Are Typists First, Programmers Second - Jeff AtwoodIs Typing A Necessity For Programming? - Abhijit NadgoudaI originally was going to say somethin...

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