barinek.com: the official website

simple comet client

Here’s a simple comet client that I’ve been using to test www.localhash.com

gnip classic sauce

Here’s a snippet of Gnip Classic Java. Sometime in 2009 we were filtering 150,000,000 activities per day, almost 2000 per second, all flowing through the below method.

pubsubhubbub-rb

Just open sourced a project on GitHub…

pubsubhubbub-rb

The project is a Ruby port of Google’s PubSubHubbub reference implementation.

http://code.google.com/p/pubsubhubbub/

localhash

Working on LocalHash - a basic example of location based webhooks using the geohash algorithm and is possibly a PubSubHubbub extension candidate. The API was implemented using Sinatra, Redis, Thin, and Nginx.

http://www.localhash.com

ActiveRecord MySQL Partitions

Here’s the migration snippet

class AddResultsTable < ActiveRecord::Migration
  def self.up
    create_partitioned_table :results do |t|

The below creates a results table partitioned by day. The example migration defaults to 4 days back and 4 days forward. We then have a few scripts to manage our partitioned tables.

Here’s the rails source

Rails LRU Memory Store

via snipplr

nginx with thin and monk

Here are the links to the software detailed in the script.

• Nginx
• Thin
• Monk

As before, the first part of the script removes pre-configured ruby packages and installs ruby and rubygems from scratch and the second part of the script installs nginx with ssl support and then sets up an example monk application.

Here is the full example