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.
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 :)
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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
I’m teaching a beginner ruby class. If you’ve ever been interested in learning Ruby this is a hands on class with no experience and no software required. Class is this Wednesday the 15th at 7pm in downtown Austin.
Remember that great presentation you gave at that user group? What about that one at the conference, you know the one everyone loved. What if your presentation wasn’t limited by the number of seats in the room or badges sold at a desk. What if, and this is a bit crazy, you could use some sort of electronic device to record your presentation and share it using a series of connected tubes.
