Working with Large Amounts of Data using MySQL
MySQL LOAD DATA INFILE can be used to load thousands or millions of records very quickly. Each row in a CSV text file will be created as a record in the database.
Ship It Quicker
Shipped software can provide A/B test results and behavior data, which can help clarify whether a feature is worth enhancing or abandoning. It is important for the team to embrace shipping software (without hurting quality) to keep planning meetings short...
Facebook Timeline JS API Development Tips
Facebook has a JS SDK and “open graph” which allow applications to post to users’ newsfeeds (and more) with permission from the user. Timeline was announced at the Facebook developer conference in the summer of 2011, which is basically a...
10 iOS Open Source Projects
Working independently on personal iOS projects, I’d used a couple of Objective-C open source libraries and wanted to share what they are.
Bundler In Practice
We recently deployed a Rails 3 application that uses Bundler to manage dependencies. We freeze the gems in the application so it can be deployed on the same boxes as other applications that have different gems. It is best to...
A/B Testing with Vanity
Vanity is an A/B Testing framework for Ruby on Rails applications. I covered A/Bingo previously which is a similar framework. We have moved to Vanity at work as our A/B testing tool for a number of reasons. We are using...
Getting Started with A/Bingo and Rails 3
A/Bingo is a “A/B” or “split” testing framework to try out different text or images (or other things) and see how they perform relative to each other. Vanity is the another a/b testing option for Rails applications, and is probably...
Notify Me
We recently started work on a new iPhone app and wanted to promote the app and find out who is interested in trying it out. Now that we’ve made progress on the app privately, it seemed like a good time...
jQuery Conference Boston 2010
jQuery Conference took place in Boston over two days in October. John Resig kicked it off with a keynote and the sessions generally covered testing and large-scale JavaScript applications, jQuery UI, (the just-released) jQuery Mobile, and widgets and effects. Below...
Surge Conference 2010
Surge Conference was held in Baltimore, MD in September 2010, put on by OmniTI. Some attendees compared it to the Velocity conference which also covers web performance, scalability, and operations.