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Pivotal at New Tech Boulder

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 19:57:04 -0700

Pivotal at New Tech Boulder

pivotal labs is hiring in boulder

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 20:50:00 -0700

pivotal labs is hiring in boulder

back in the day…

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 21:04:00 -0700

back in the day…

simple comet client

Sat, 13 Feb 2010 06:41:17 -0700

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

gnip classic sauce

Sat, 06 Feb 2010 13:22:00 -0700

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.

‘87 land cruiser

Thu, 04 Feb 2010 14:49:00 -0700

‘87 land cruiser

farrar and gibbard

Sat, 30 Jan 2010 15:42:00 -0700

farrar and gibbard

pubsubhubbub-rb

Tue, 26 Jan 2010 13:04:00 -0700

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

Sun, 24 Jan 2010 10:01:00 -0700

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

new mouth watering media site

Wed, 20 Jan 2010 22:51:35 -0700

new mouth watering media site

Gnip Classic

Wed, 20 Jan 2010 13:09:52 -0700

Gnip Classic

ActiveRecord MySQL Partitions

Wed, 20 Jan 2010 10:01:00 -0700

Check out the below example of how to create partitioned MySQL tables within a Rails Migration. We’ve had a handful of tables that we continually want to partition and a team member wrote the below.

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

Tue, 19 Jan 2010 08:18:36 -0700

via snipplr

mySQLgame

Mon, 18 Jan 2010 07:13:25 -0700

mySQLgame

http://magazine.jamsbio.com/2009/01/05/playing-the-beatles-backwards-the-ultimate-countdown/

Wed, 13 Jan 2010 20:52:00 -0700

http://magazine.jamsbio.com/2009/01/05/playing-the-beatles-backwards-the-ultimate-countdown/

nginx with thin and monk

Wed, 13 Jan 2010 15:35:00 -0700

The below script is a continuation of my last aws post, however instead of installing Phusion Passenger and Rails, the script installs Thin and Monk. Monk is glue framework for Rack and Sinatra.

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

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

nginx with passenger and rails

Tue, 12 Jan 2010 12:56:02 -0700

The below script walks you through setting up Nginx with Phusion Passenger and Rails. The script is intended for use with RightScale and Amazon Web Services (AWS).

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

The first part of the script removes pre-configured ruby packages and installs ruby and rubygems from scratch.

The second part of the script installs nginx with ssl support and then sets up an example rails application.

Here is the full example

the #golf swing…unfortunately how I didn’t spend my...

Sat, 09 Jan 2010 19:10:00 -0700

the #golf swing…unfortunately how I didn’t spend my xmas break

nagios ejabberd check via ruby

Wed, 06 Jan 2010 19:40:00 -0700

Below is an example of using Ruby and xmpp4r to check ejabberd’s status from within nagios

You’ll need to define the below nagios command within you nagios config file and then include the below ruby.

define command {
  command_name check_xmpp
  command_line ruby /opt/nagios/plugins/check_xmpp.rb --hostname $HOSTADDRESS$ --jid username@domain.com --password password
}

Here is the ruby example

"Alice’s adventures in algebra: Wonderland solved http://bit.ly/7nB2oI"

Tue, 05 Jan 2010 11:57:34 -0700

“Alice’s adventures in algebra: Wonderland solved http://bit.ly/7nB2oI”

- barinek