Deadlocked
9 days ago
In SQL Server a SELECT statement can deadlock against an UPDATE statement without being in a transaction. Why does this happens? What is a good approach to SQL Server deadlocks?
SSH Jumphosts tunneling and other curiosities
2 months ago
Recently, I had to support a rails server which is deep behind a firewall. Here I offer a somewhat sketchy account of how I am able to support it.
Video Browser: Past, Present and Future.
3 months ago
Running IE6 on Windows Vista
4 months ago
Speed up your feed generation in Rails
5 months ago
In general when generating rss feed in Rails you will be using the builder library, it can be fairly slow unless you take special care.
Watch out when you use ActiveRecord eager loading, it has the potential to wreak havoc if you are not careful.
I fixed up Video Browsers sort by date
6 months ago
Genre and runtime sort options for Video Browser
6 months ago
I just posted a new version of Video Browser that support “by genre” and “by runtime” sort options for movies.
Yet another way to enumerate through Enumerables if you are using the prototype javascript library.
Redo your migrations in Rails and keep your data
7 months ago
On Rails, I find myself quite often fixing up an old migration early in my projects, at this point I already have a bunch of data in my database and I would like to keep it.
So I created a Rake task that takes care of this.
A few new features for Video Browser
7 months ago
Getting started with Ruby On Rails on Windows
7 months ago
In this post I would like to give you all the information you need to get started with Ruby On Rails, on Windows. I will cover the tools you need, the resources you need and some tips.
Why the hell write yet another blog engine?
7 months ago
Writing your own blog software is an ideal first exercise when faced with learning a new web platform.
Hello World
7 months ago
At last, after months of procrastination, I decided to re-write my blog.
This post contains a list of software that made this blog happen.
A new version of Video Browser for Vista MCE
10 months ago
Video browser, is a little plugin for Vista MCE that let’s you browse your videos the way they were meant to be browsed.
Video Browser for Vista MCE
11 months ago
Goodbye Altiris
11 months ago
IDisposable in Ruby
about 1 year ago
An example implementation of the IDisposable pattern in the Ruby language.
It looks much nicer in Ruby.
Insert or Update pattern for Sql Server
about 1 year ago
Implementing the UPSERT (insert or update) pattern in MS SQL Server can be tricky. In this post I explore the various advantages and disadvantages of various implementations.
Keep it simple
about 1 year ago