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Super Charge your Rails App with Rack Cache and Memcache

Slow is sweeping the nation: slow food, slow living, and slow reading. Unfortunately your app called, it said it wants to be fast. Web apps that respond quickly are more enjoyable to work with and Google even gives them a small SEO bump. Recently basecamp next got quite a bit of customer love based on how quickly it responds. The fact of the matter is if it’s on the web, fast matters.

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You got NoSQL in my Postgres! Using Hstore in Rails

Heroku just announced their support of hstore in their dedicated Postgres 9.1 instances. Hstore is a schema less key value store inside of PostgreSQL that allows us to store data like hashes directly inside of a column. It’s great for when you don’t know exactly what types of attributes you need to store on a model, or if you need to support many different attributes for the same model.

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Get Down with Heroku at SXSW this year register now. It’s gonna be awesome.

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I love doing screencasts, but hate the way my MBP mic sounds, so I got a Rode Podcaster mic. You can see the difference in this quick video. All sound is raw and un-edited. I’m pretty happy with the purchase :)

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Test Drive: Induction - The Everything Database Client for Mac

Join me for a quick demo of Induction, the latest project by @Mattt from Heroku. Induction will let you view your data-stores including: PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite, Redis, MongoDB, and so much more. The alpha product also lets you run queries, and visualize data.

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Give Tumblr Some Code Love with Prettify.js

Lets admit it, code and Tumblr don’t exactly get along right now. Sure you can write your posts in markdown, but there isn’t really an out of the box experience for syntax highlighting in code blocks.

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Wizard-ify Your Rails Controllers with Wicked

If insanity is doing the same thing and expecting different results, I was going crazy writing step-by-step wizards. I was never happy with the end result, they did what I wanted, but were messy and had too many moving parts. I wanted a simple & re-usable way to create restful-ish controllers. Thats when I decided to rip out all that scary controller logic and bake it into in a Gem I call Wicked.

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Journey to the Center of Geekdom

I thought I was spoiled when I worked for Gowalla, but Heroku appeals to my true inner Geek. The people, the building, and the oh-so-delicious food have blown my mind. It’s impossible to turn the corner without bumping into some of the best minds in the community. Where else are you going to find yourself walking to work with @hone02, a maintainer of Bundler, and playing pingpong after lunch with @bmizerany, the creator of Sinatra. The knowledge isn’t just Ruby, there’s all sorts of Java, Python, and even a little Erlang getting thrown around. You can tell everyone loves working on the Heroku platform by the way they talk about it, and the passion they have for their jobs. I haven’t run into Matz, the creator of Ruby, since he joined heroku, but I can’t wait to give him the super-secret Heroku staff handshake (it’s just a regular handshake).

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Epic Job is Epic

When Gowalla was acquired by Facebook I wrote that I was talking to companies in Austin and California in Should I Stay or Should I Go. I’m happy to announce that I’ve made a decision on where I’m going next.

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