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7 reasons I switched back to PHP after 2 years on Rails
September 22 2007
Why I switched back to PHP after 2 years on Rails INTRO / BACKGROUND: Back in January 2005, I announced on the O’Reilly blog that I was going to completely scrap over 100,000 lines of messy PHP code in my existing CD Baby (cdbaby.com) website, and rewrite the entire thing in Rails,… read moreRailsConf 2007 CD Baby Hackfest 2007 Winners
January 29 2007
The CD Baby sponsored contest for RailsConf 2007 is complete! (Original announcement here and here.) The top 20 winners are posted at the Rails Hackfest 2007 Winners page on WorkingWithRails.com. But.. I want to point to the top 40 winners for two reasons: (1) - because everyone who contributed deserves a hell of… read moreCD Baby awards free RailsConf registrations+hotel to top 20 contributors to Rails
January 08 2007
You’ve probably heard that RailsConf 2007 will be May 17-20 in Portland, Oregon. Since my company CD Baby depends on Rails, and since we’re based in Portland, I decided to spend some company money to reward the people that MAKE Rails. Not just the ones who invented it, but the people… read moreCD Baby is hiring Rails Rock Stars for very high-profile, well-paying music projects.
July 10 2006
CD Baby is hiring a few top Rails programmers, anywhere in the world. Extended version of this entry has details, if interested. CD Baby is hiring Rails Rock Stars for very high-profile, well-paying music projects. We’ve got some great projects lined up for the CD Baby family of musician services. All Rails-based.… read morePassing blocks to gsub, (OF COURSE Ruby does it this way!)
May 13 2006
I love that when Ruby surprises me, it’s never the kind of surprise like, “Huh? Why does it do that?” - but instead it’s always, “Oh, wow, OF COURSE that makes perfect sense, I just never thought of it like that!” Newest case of that: passing blocks to gsub I had always… read moreGreat article on SAS : Serial Attached SCSI
April 15 2006
Great article explaining SAS (Serial Attached SCSI) here: http://www.tomshardware.com/2006/04/07/going_the_sas_storage_way/index.html Don't do the usual Tom's Hardware thing where to click straight to the benchmarks and conclusion. In this article, the first few pages are a great introduction to SAS and included some history about SATA and SCSI that I never… read moreNew York Times no longer uses Times font
April 03 2006
Kinda funny : the New York Times website (nytimes.com) did a redesign and now uses the Georgia font (my personal favorite), not the Times font, that is so standard everywhere else. read more
