EmphasizedInsanity at /life

Feels good to be back on a Bag o Links routine.

• Get your database size rake task – a little toy i made and Mike improved, additions are welcome.
• How facebook uses erlang for real-time chat – erlang jabber implementation, that’s got to be good.
• MapReduce for idiots – or just for those who never took the time to read.
• MongoDB vs. CouchDB vs. Mysql – mongo is fast indeed, but the atomic actions benefits of Couch are still appealing.
• Memory leaks in Javascript – how to prevent and identify possible leaks and probably save a few Firefox users out there.
• Why Javascript’s ‘this’ breaks – when window, object or scope wins.
• Javascript objects, a simple example – yes, it is simple.
• MongoMapper and MongoSphinx, a party! – make sphinx play nice with mongo.
• Paginating with CouchREST and will_paginate – Overriding WillPaginate::Collection.create is the solution i guess.
• Rails 3 links and resources – from rubyinside, here’s another one from Yehuda Katz on the new Bundler and real life usage.
• How to upgrade plugins for Rails 3 – also, remember to update the record on RailsPlugins
• Why Ruby? series – method arguments – a nice series of posts covering that dude’s view on Ruby.
• The building blocks of ruby – Yehuda shows the power of blocks in a set of nice examples.
• Extending native objects in Javascript – prototyping for beginners.
• Dynamic methods in Ruby – javascript style – nice, a bit kinky… but nice.
• Rolling coke can CSS – nice.
• What pythonists think of Ruby – peepcode writeup.
• CloudFront – no brainer CDN for S3 – A very fast change that can help many, but i am still having trouble with CloudFront’s expiry options that do not fit any case.
• mr.flow – compose MapReduce modules online.
• HAML sucks for content – some good points added to the ongoing war.
• CloudXL – Cloud service providers – a list of Cloud service providers around, filterable too.
• Downtime postmortem – oneforty went down, this is how they are learning from it.
• How Farmville scales – the most annoying (and largest) facebook game scaling solutions.
• 52frameworks – HTML5 + CSS3 framework.
• Anatomy of a perfect sidebar – woork’s magic.
• Why Riak for your next Rails app is a good idea – Chris takes another direction in the noSQL land.
• Fake it till you make it – a faker rake task.

Treasures

• sogger – a StackOverFlow growler
• html_press – API and Rack middleware for HTML compression with caching support.
• auto-session-timeout – this is a JQuery version, original is a prototype version.
• toto – quick blog on Heroku.