Archive for December 2007

Gravatars on Rails

Patrick showed me a very cool site: gravatar.com.  At this site, you can upload an image of yourself (or whatever) and tie it to an email address.  Then, any time you post a comment on a Gravatar-enabled blog, your image will show up next to your comment.This would be a great feature to add to [...]

Performance On Rails

So, you just finished reading your copy of Agile Web Development with Rails, and you’re ready to launch an Internet startup.

You get everything set up: hosting, database, subversion…you put the finishing touches on your capistrano deployment recipe. Your app is now online, ready for the whole wide world to see.

You tell all your friends [...]