My new favorite Ruby project is Resque, due to a tip that I had gotten from a colleague in the NYC Ruby scene. At Stylesight are going to use it in one of our back-end systems that we use to populate our image library. Yes image library. So you can imaging the CPU abuse we put our machines to when processing 5000 images, that turn into 25 to 30,000 images, in a week’s time. Cloud computing is the way to go. Resque will help us with that.
... read moreWelcome to my website. It frequently changes due to my use of this server to experiment with different technologies. I will be making this into a blog/professional site and with the latest release you see here I am making a simple blog component to test out the use of CouchDB.
Well here I am Using Jira at work and planing on adding Jira support to BluPlate. I had to look around a little but was eventually pointed to Jira4R. The documentation is terrible inline commenting is not really anything to write home about but it works. I was at first at a loss as to figuring out what the hell to do to get the data i needed out of my install of Jira. I also need to create issues in Jira.
... read moreI love Sinatra. I have been able to make some great little apps with it, including this site. I have a few goals that I want to achieve right now and that is to use Sinatra in conjunction with Nanite to spawn mini apps to handle worker reporting via AJAX (or via AMQP) to a main app. I am still thinking about the architecture. I have the components working but I’m still sorting out how to fit them together in a simple but robust way.
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