The 416 is an elite group of software developers (alright, some of them weren't software developers, and some of them were fresh out of school) brought together by Pradipita's mistaken use of CC. Who would have known what would come of such an innocent message: I have a couple of Ruby ...

This is a bit of a followup to my previous post on Capistrano with Git and Passenger. I decided to use Ferret via the acts_as_ferret (AAF) plugin. Ferret is a full-text search inspired by Apache's Lucene but written in Ruby. Basically Ferret and Lucene keep a full-text index outside of the ...

One of the great things about Rails and its community is that they are very lazy. Lazy in the good way of not wanting to do boring, repetitive, error prone things manually. They metaprogram and they automate. A great example of this is Capistrano. Capistrano allows you to deploy Rails ...

The Grails DBMigrate Plugin is a handy way to give you control over the generation of your database if you don't want Grails to auto-munge your schema. It works fine in development, but when you create a WAR for deployment on another machine the Migrations are not packaged in the ...

This is part of a series on the Erlang Exercises which is a great set of programming problems that challenge you to implement solutions to some common Erlang problems. I'm going to share some of my solutions to these problems. Implementing Talk with Distributed Erlang Make a simple Talk program that makes ...

This is part of a series on the Erlang Exercises which is a great set of programming problems that challenge you to implement solutions to some common Erlang problems. I'm going to share some of my solutions to these problems. Erlang using UNIX sockets Do you want to talk with a friend ...

This is part of a series on the Erlang Exercises which is a great set of programming problems that challenge you to implement solutions to some common Erlang problems. I'm going to share some of my solutions to these problems. Interaction between processes, Concurrency 3) Write a function which starts N processes ...