Sinatra deployment and performance on Slicehost, Heroku, and Google App Engine

Monday 05/18/2009  –  Category: Uncategorized

During Railsconf I was anxious to see what all the hype was about Sinatra.  While attending Blake’s Sinatra tutorial I ported the Flickr Original web service (originally in merb) to a nice and compact one-file Sinatra app.  It’s really nice having everything as minimal as possible and in one file.
Now, deployment.
Slicehost
I guess Thin is the [...]

Sinatra on Google App Engine

Monday 05/18/2009  –  Category: Uncategorized

I attended a JRuby on Google App Engine talk during Railsconf and have been anxious to try deploying a Ruby application on the platform.  This tutorial gives a good walkthrough and I was able to get a Sinatra app up and running on GAE, but not without a few hiccups and hurdles.
Some things I ran [...]

RailsConf 2009 Notes

Tuesday 05/12/2009  –  Category: Uncategorized

Can someone smell stale blog?  It’s been busy on this side and I haven’t had any blogworthy material for awhile…until now.
I had the opportunity to go to RailsConf last week in Las Vegas.   A lot of smart people, an overwhelming array of Apple products and geeky shirts, and tons of nerdy sessions.
Here are some brief [...]

php usort

Tuesday 02/10/2009  –  Category: Uncategorized

I learned about a nifty PHP function that allows you to sort an array with a user-defined comparison function. This is useful if you have an array of database results and need to sort by one element in the result array (normally it would be better to sort with the SQL query but I [...]

Google Latitude

Monday 02/9/2009  –  Category: Uncategorized

I’ve been wondering when Google was going to jump on the location-based service bandwagon after seeing apps like Brightkite and Loopt started getting popular when the iPhone came out.
As of now, the following devices are supported:
- Android-powered devices with Maps v3.0 and above. G1 users in the US will be receiving Maps v3.0 in a [...]