Alistair Davidson | Miscellaneous musings of a multifarious man - mostly rants, raves and random thoughts on Coldfusion MX. And too much alliteration.
Last week I did a lot of reading and research into cloud hosting. The "Cloud" has been a buzzword for a while now, often bandied about by those who know no better as a simple sprinkle-on solution for all of your scale problems - much in the same way as AJAX was touted around a few years ago as a …
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Over the weekend I was having a fiddle around with the layout on Cragwag , as the existing design was a bit, shall we say, emergent . I'd being trying to avoid a LHS column, because everything always seems to end up with one, but in the end I had to give up and just go with it. The auto-tag cloud …
During some scale testing the other day, we came across this unusual / mildly amusing error in a database-bound command that just funnels INSERT SELECT statements down the ActiveRecord JDBC driver: java/util/Arrays.java:2734:in `copyOf': java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space …
You know those conversations you end up having in the pub, where after a couple of beers you end up saying "you know what there should be? There should be a site that does X" (where X can be anything at all) I've had so many of those over the years, and never quite managed to work up the free …
The Series B VC market sucks right now. The boom times of the pre-credit-crunch 2.0 world seem very far away. Although there's still enthusiasm to invest in early-stage companies at Angel or Series A rounds (small investment, large slice of equity, potential for large return) and Series C/D+ …
We're having a bizarre problem with MySQL 5.0.32 on Debian in a highly-concurrent environment, using the ActiveRecord JDBC adapter. We've also seen it on 5.0.51 on Ubuntu. There's a particular sequence of 3 queries, all executed from within a ActiveRecord::Base.transaction { } block: // Statement …
Following on from the previous post on The imminent death of Twitter , after several comments along the lines of "Oh Al, you have SOOOO got to buy that domain" followed by a brief moment of hastiness with the credit card, I am now the proud owner of GruntFuddlr.com ! So all I need to do now is …
Maybe I'm sticking my neck out, but it's inevitable - hear me out here. By now you're surely familiar with the concept of The Tipping Point as espoused by Malcolm Gladwell - the moment of critical mass, the threshold, the boiling point the point at which momentum for change becomes unstoppable …
Posts have been increasingly thin on the ground recently, due to a couple of things: my discovery of a reasonable lightweight API client for Twitter, but mainly lack of time - which itself is down to two things: I'm organising my wedding to the ludicrously lovely Lise, and we've been getting …
Karters Originally uploaded by Dr Snooks Stag do - survived! Physically unscathed. Some of the mental scars may take a little longer to expunge....
