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Radiant podcast interview

At my day job, Digital Pulp, we’ve been working with the Rails CMS framework Radiant. My colleague Josh French and I were recently interviewed by core Radiant developer Sean Cribbs for the first Radiant podcast. We talk about why and how we use Radiant, and how it compares to other CMS platforms. You can listen [...]

Interview with Allan Odgaard, creator of TextMate

A couple months ago, Allan Odgaard, creator of the OS X text editor TextMate, mentioned on his blog that he was going to be traveling to the US and passing through New York. I emailed him to see if he would be interested in doing an interview while he was in town, and he kindly [...]

How to use a RAM / memory disk for MySQL in Rails

I wanted to use a RAM disk for my MySQL data files when running my tests for a Rails project. I succeeded, but it only cut 2 seconds off of my ~30 second test suite for my functional tests, and didn’t cut any time off of my unit tests. But nevertheless, here is how I [...]

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