March 2010
7 posts
“We can honestly report that we’ve been unable to find the right monetization...”
– Saying Goodbye to RunCodeRun
“In 2008, a pair of researchers at the University of Texas showed that the...”
– How Privacy Vanishes Online, a Bit at a Time - NYTimes.com
“So because of a dictum from the IT department, HP — one of the biggest,...”
– John Gruber
Fix Textmate's Shoulda bundle broken shortcutes...
When you’re using Shoulda — and you should :) — on a Mac, you’re probably addicted to ⌘⇧R and ⌥⇧R shortcuts for running currently focused should/context.
That works rather well until your testfile is deeply nested (like in test/unit/my_module/something/complicated_test.rb) — then it falls on it’s face with Load Error: no such file to load — test_helper.
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“One thing that’s become clear is that the film industry feels no...”
– Andrew O’Hehir, Oscars: Hollywood’s war against itself
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Data structure for Salvatore's Twitter clone in...
If you’re interested in Redis, you should definitely check real-world scenario, @antirez’s tutorial on building a Twitter clone in Redis and PHP. It’s worth to pay close attention how all the information is modeled in Redis, so I have put the overview of the architecture in the following gist:
You’ll notice the need for a really heavy de-normalization. It’s a useful...
“Note the same pattern again and again, in theory with a relational database the...”
– Salvatore Sanfilippo, Design and implementation of a simple Twitter clone using only the Redis key-value store as database