Entries from January 2008

January 30, 2008

Is an association already loaded?

If you can’t tell… I like posting little “cheatsheet” items here. So, here’s another one that I’ve bumped into again recently after not needing it for a while.
You want to know how many Items are currently in the Store and you’ve got this in your Store definition:
has_many :items
If the Items for this Store have [...]

January 29, 2008

Pricing

A frequent topic of conversation in our office is pricing. Our product is attractive for many reasons, but one of our core advantages is that by leveraging a variety of technologies and building smart we’ve been able to build a product that completely shatters existing pricing models. Hell, even the fact that we [...]

January 24, 2008

99.999% uptime

You may or may not be anti-Joel, but this message from WordPress reminded me of a good post from him recently.

January 23, 2008

A Quick Speed Boost

We recently moved some of our processing from Engine Yard over to Contegix. The initial results are really positive – big boosts in our processing power and capacity. Part of the conversion, of course, is getting brand new servers setup (or as my coworker Justin calls it “Christmas Morning”).
There are lots of great [...]

January 3, 2008

Zed’s Rant

Wow
I’ll let you draw your own conclusions past that.