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A little about Ted...

Recently, the Ted Spread, an index the measures how easy (cheap) it is for banks to borrow from banks has gotten better. Recent chart here which shows the latest at around 2.70%: However, it is ...

Rails 2.1.2 security fix release

Just an FYI, Rails 2.1.2 has been released, which contains some security fixes.

Views in Rails

I had to create a view for a join table of a many-to-many relationship in my model. To do this, I had to have a database migration use the ‘execute’ command to create the view. Tests failed because...

Mercurial...

At this point, we’ve switched over to mercurial from subversion for a few months which impacted two separate projects directly, one of which is in production. I wanted to post about the impact of t...

Buy Gold

Governments around the world pumping ‘cash’ into the market.  Current stock crash creates a hyper-deflationary period. Stocks and commodities are dropping. Even oil is falling.Once that cash filter...

Bailout...

I get the feeling that the US is screwed with or without the current bailout. So why is Bush and company pushing it so hard? I think it benefits them most after they are out of office but I have no...

Short Kindle Review

I received my kindle on Friday, and after using it for the weekend, I have to say that this thing is awesome. Reading books on the kindle is actually superior to paper books for me. I may be a poo...

Cage Match: Zero Punctuation vs. CAD

Some of you may read Ctrl+Alt+Del and some may watch Zero Punctuation game reviews. Now you can watch Zero complain about CAD. Its kinda funny, not Zero’s best work, but does make a decent point. G...

Assembla for Mercurial/Project hosting

Just found Assembla, which provides team/project hosting. Handles Subversion, Mercurial, Git, trac, tickets, blogs, job posting, etc. You can even make your projects protected from the public. Free...

Gearman and MogileFS?

I’ve been looking at how places like Digg scale up their systems lately… Gearman is a queueing system used by Digg. Unlike JMS or other systems, it has the ability for clients to create a tasklist...

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