Monthly Archives: July 2006

Configuration vs. convention

Posted on July 6, 2006 by Brian Pontarelli

My buddy Dave Thomas has an interesting blog entry concerning convention vs. configuration. I’ve given it a considerable amount of thought today because it is something that hits you square in the face when switching between frameworks and languages (i.e. … Continue reading →

Posted in Java, Rails, Ruby, Savant, Tech | Leave a comment

New Inversoft Product

Posted on July 6, 2006 by Brian Pontarelli

I’ve finished launching my latest Inversoft product – The Inversoft Bad Word Database. The website is written entirely in Ruby on Rails and uses PayPal for purchases. All and all the coding was extremely straight forward and simple. Here’s the … Continue reading →

Posted in Inversoft, Rails, Ruby, naymz | 1 Comment

Rails with FCGID and puts

Posted on July 5, 2006 by Brian Pontarelli

Just figured out something very humerous. I’ve just launched a new website that is written in Rails and I got it working with FCGID and Apache2. Works really well. During development I made use of print, puts, p and the … Continue reading →

Posted in Rails, Ruby | 3 Comments

Ruby logging and performance

Posted on July 3, 2006 by Brian Pontarelli

Most folks who have coded in Java understand somewhat how to protect your application for the logging performance sink-hole. The sink occurs when you have turned off debugging, but for some reason your application still runs horribly slow. After much … Continue reading →

Posted in Ruby | 2 Comments