Archive for May 2008

RailsConf 2008 Presentation – Assembling Pages Last

Posted on 05/31/2008, 9:41 pm, by aaron, under All.

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I presented this morning at RailsConf about Edge Caching and ESI. You can download my presentation below.

Assembling Pages Last: Edge Caching, ESI, and Rails

People asked some awesome questions, caught the edge cases I didnt want to cover [...]

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The End of Slideshows: Animoto

Posted on 05/13/2008, 9:29 pm, by aaron, under All, Facebook, Rails.

UPDATE: Animoto just raised a round of investment from Amazon! Congrats Guys!
Animoto is a great idea. They take your photos and create a production quality video to the music of your choice. Its the end of those boring slide shows, for good.

(From a recent Techcrunch article here)

We had [...]

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Advanced Rails Recipes

Posted on 05/13/2008, 4:32 pm, by aaron, under All.

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Congratulations to Mike Clark and the Pragmatic Programmers team for shipping Advanced Rails Recipes. I highly recommend [...]

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