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Comment on Rails Underground Recap by sjoerd

sjoerd — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 14:45:14 +0000

You are right, the atmosphere was a lot better than on the bigger confs. Unfortunately I didnt attend your talk, but that of DrNic instead. It was okay, but being able to speak yourself was probably worth missing it. I have posts a write up too on http://dev.innovationfactory.nl/2009/07/27/rails-underground-2009/. Big thanks to Mark Coleman.

Comment on Top Five by Ben

Ben — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 16:01:37 +0000

@1stNobody: not at all! I’m a big believer in GTD, but I’ve found that my personal approach to the system still leaves me with a motivation problem. Thanks to GTD, I’ve got a great long list of things I *could* (and should, truth be told) do at a given point in time. Thanks to Top 5, I’m a bit more successful in actually doing them. They’re really solutions for different problems.

@2ndNobody: I am so far!

Comment on Top Five by Nobody

Nobody — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 14:40:37 +0000

Have fun @ Rails underground.

Comment on Top Five by Nobody

Nobody — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 14:35:44 +0000

Are you saying you didn’t find GTD very helpful?

Comment on RubyNation: Day One by Ben

Ben — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 20:58:18 +0000

Not sure if it was recorded - I’d keep an eye on the RubyNation site to see if they mention anything about it.

I’ll be speaking in London at Rails Underground (http://rails-underground.com/) in late July, and I’m fairly sure it’ll be a version of this talk.

Comment on RubyNation: Day One by Paul Bowsher

Paul Bowsher — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 09:36:31 +0000

Ben, the slides seem really interesting but some context from the talk itself would be great. Do you know if the talk was recorded and hosted anywhere? You mention London, where and when is this?

Comment on Railsconf 2009 by Suzanne Axtell

Suzanne Axtell — Mon, 11 May 2009 16:20:58 +0000

Thanks for the wrap-up, Ben, and for your participation in RailsConf 2009–we really appreciate it.
Suzanne, O’Reilly Conferences team

Comment on Ben Goes to Railsconf by nap

nap — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 14:38:04 +0000

See you in Vegas in a couple of days. Looking forward to the panel; thanks for participating!

Comment on Progressive Caching by Ben

Ben — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 10:30:11 +0000

@Philip: Sure, it’s two requests, but one of them is just for a static file, and the other avoids most of the overhead of Rails - taken together, they should be scale much better than a single uncached request.

I have been thinking a bit about controlling the AJAX request with cookies (if you’re only pulling back data for a user, for instance, set a cookie on login so that unauthorized visits to a page don’t fire off a new request), but I haven’t looked into that closely.

Comment on Progressive Caching by Philip Hallstrom

Philip Hallstrom — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 04:43:59 +0000

On a project I worked on a couple of years ago we did this. The problem we had was (ironically) in scaling it out. Every request was now two requests. In combination with the other things that were going on it just didn’t work. I switched it out for a cookie based solution that rewrote part of the pages sprinkling in the appropriate bits where necessary. I think a better way to do it is with ESI (http://revolutiononrails.blogspot.com/2007/08/advanced-rails-caching-on-edge.html). Never had a chance to use it, but it looks nice.