Most sites have a “Remember me” checkbox of some sort, which will store a permanent cookie, rather than a session cookie, so you don’t have to login…Read more

I just realized that my production servers were running the Ruby version of the MySQL driver, to the tune of a performance penalty of 10-15%, accord…Read more

Do you ever get the feeling that the captain has simply forgotten that the fasten seat belt sign is still on? And thought it’s probably because they…Read more

In a single day, we’ve managed to fly to New York, along with our 1-year-old daughter, had an afternoon meeting with Martin Niesenholtz, the head of…Read more

The Rails-Commit mailing list has been down since August 19, and though it was a nice relief from the ADHD of the core team for a while, it is reall…Read more

I’m a big fan of companies that tackle hiring differently, like the print-on-demand company Lulu with The Lulu Quiz. Note in particular the Renaiss…Read more

I’ve had a problem for a while with the server that runs both this site and Boxes and Arrows where it would all of a sudden just race into an out-of…Read more

I’m at a loss here. The image on the right shows fine on my Mac, and it shows fine in FireFox on my Windows XP PC, but on IE6, it shows as a broken …Read more

Speaking of the bubble in the housing market, Jason Kottke has this link for us from the New York Times, graphing the price of American houses sinc…Read more