April 2007
37 posts
Scaling Twitter » SlideShare →
“I’m getting glazed over looks, which is sort of what I expected.”
– Evan Phoenix while presenting on rubinius
“[Strongtalk was written in] C++ that’s unable to penetrate my brain.”
– Evan Phoenix while presenting on rubinius
“FastCGI is Poop”
– Ezra
“We spent our time building an app that people were passionate about and wanted...”
– Blaine during his scaling Twitter talk
“We were on a 32 bit database… until Thursday.”
– Blaine during his scaling Twitter talk
“It sucks to get seven thousand emails in your inbox in the morning.”
– Blaine Cook
“March was difficult”
– Blaine Cook, Big Bird (scaling twitter)
Nick Sieger, JRuby Q&A
Q: What's the memory usage of Tomcat running Rails?
A: 154 meg... wow, that's probably an area for improvement.
“You shouldn’t have to repeat yourself repeatedly… that was...”
– Tor while presenting
“This is not going to be a fair and balanced shootout”
– Tor while presenting
“I feel abandoned.”
– CodeRight user
“so, ducktyping. Uh, um. It’s one of those things from a tool vendor that...”
– Mark Howe, during his CodeGear Presentation
“Christmas is May 25”
– Tom after being heckled during his talk on Chronic
ruinous: that's totally Web 3.0
hasmanyjosh: web 3.14
rabble: i'm so much more in to web 0.2 than web 2.0
evan|svrc: i figure it was web 4.20
ruinous: maybe its Web 4.20
Introduction to Active Record - Silicon Valley... →
“12:00 pm is not noon”
– “That Guy” at SVRC
“Chronic.parse(“today at 4:20pm”)”
– Tom Preston-Werner
“We’re going to build it how we want, and we don’t give a fuck what...”
– Rabble. On stage. With an amplified voice.
Mocha, a great mocking lib →
“ActiveRecord doesn’t make you smart.”
– rabble
RKelly on RubyForge →
Colin Charles Web Log » ‘Ruby’ →
“Give away “free screenshots” for peepshow.”
– lwu quoting organizers
“I’m not sure why I’m giving a talk on ActiveRecord ”
– SV RubyConf
“Blog thyself”
– has_many :through
No comment
Someone: This talk is minimally invasive...
“Talk done, went way under time. Probably talked too fast. Probably rocked too...”
– Twitter / defunkt
lwu's sv ruby conf notes →
“[World of Warcraft] Doesn’t Take Much Bandwidth. But I’ll [move away...”
– some hater
“just a little bit of code generation is incredibly effective”
– SAP Researchers, svrc2007