Development

We're using Facebooker for our Rails based Facebook apps. However, we ran into a problem after migrating our session store to the MemCacheStore....

No, it's not April 1st, and as far as I know, hell hasn't frozen over either. The Merb and Rails teams have in fact announced that they will be joining forces. The end result will eventually be released as Rails 3....

Amazon Web Services Over the course of the past 6 months or so, I've had the opportunity to explore various cloud hosting services, starting with Amazon Web Services. I don't want to go into detail about AWS here, but suffice to say that I like this suite of services a lot, and it was a great fit for an SMS app / messaging server I deployed on this infrastructure....

Today, Amazon removed the beta label from their EC2 service, along with a bunch of related announcements. This is great news! Over the past half year, I have become an enthusiastic user of the various AWS services, including EC2, which has been very stable for me thus far. But now Amazon is formalizing this by offering a 99.95% availability guarantee as part of the new EC2 SLA....

I realized that it's been quite a while since my last update. Unfortunately it seems like the amount of interesting stuff I have to write about is inversely proportional to the spare time I have available for writing... ;) Anyway, I figure I'll try to get back into the habit of publishing smaller posts, but hopefully more regularly. Let's see how it goes......