4 days ago
Earlier this week I lost my old trusty server which hosts www.samsaffron.com and www.mediabrowser.tv died.
I decided to migrate all the data to a new VPS (virtual private server), here is a sketchy account of how this all happened.
4 months 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?
6 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.
7 months ago
8 months ago
9 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.
10 months ago
11 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.
11 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.
11 months ago
11 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.
12 months ago
Writing your own blog software is an ideal first exercise when faced with learning a new web platform.
12 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.
about 1 year 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.
about 1 year ago
about 1 year ago
about 1 year ago
An example implementation of the IDisposable pattern in the Ruby language.
It looks much nicer in Ruby.
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.
about 1 year ago