A couple weeks ago, Phusion Passenger (aka mod\_rails) was released. I recently tested this at work, on an EC2 instance, and my initial experience was so smooth that I am already planning to use it to deploy our various Rails applications. The benchmarks I've seen put its performance on approximately the same level as a Mongrel cluster, but its ease of use is an order of magnitude better....

Earlier today, TechCrunch's poorly researched claim that Twitter is abandoning Ruby on Rails in favor of PHP or Java generated a lot of buzz in the Twitter and Ruby communities (the claim was later refuted by Twitter developer Evan Williams). Of course, the article's comments attracted the usual, ignorant TechCrunch trolls....

I just got back from an ice cream social with Ruby on Rails creator David Heinemeier Hansson (aka DHH). I had come across his blog post about this casual event last week and figured I'd make my way over there, particularly since the location (Michael's Gelato & Cafe) in downtown Palo Alto is only 5 minutes from my house....

As some of you may know, I have decided to leave Google and go back into the startup world. Friday was my last day at Google, and even though I normally don't blog much about my job, I figured I was due for an update. First off, Google is an amazing company....

After having signed up for an Evernote beta invite a while ago, I finally received one this week. Evernote is a next generation note taking service. What sets it apart from similar applications are the numerous ways of entering as well as retrieving notes. First of all there is the Evernote Website. It is simple and straightforward, and seems to be very responsive....