Standout Jobs: launched

Yeah I know, I’m very late on this. I’m the latest one of the gang to blog about it.
StandoutJobs.com has launched a couple days ago and demoed at DEMO earlier today.
We’ve worked very hard on this and I’m really proud of the result!

Please give it a look and let me know what you think!

Get intimate with your load balancer tonight!

The Thin Cheesecake release is out (v0.6.1)!
sudo gem install thin
That tasty and sweet Cheesecake release comes with some new sweet topping: config file support, uses less memory, some speed tweaks, but that’s nothing new regarding what we all know and use from other web servers. Nothing very innovative, breath taking, crazy, revolutionary or surprising you [...]

DemoCampCUSEC follow-up

Yesterday I presented Thin at DemoCampCUSEC. Things went pretty well and the other presentations were very good too.
My demo was basically re-coding a simplified version of Thin live, here’s the final result:

%w(rubygems eventmachine thin thin_parser rack).each { |f| require f }

class Connection < EventMachine::Connection
attr_accessor :app

def initialize
@parser = [...]

Thin : A Followup!

Thin was launched a week ago and it instantly became a huge success in the Ruby community!

Someone created the #thin IRC channel on freenode where around 7-10 ppl hang around
Lots of people are active on the Google Group, asking questions and submitting patches (more then 50 members already!)
Thin was featured on Ruby Inside blog
and on [...]

Thin – A fast and simple web server

Thin is a web server that glues together 3 of the best Ruby libraries in web history:

the Mongrel parser: the root of Mongrel speed and security
Event Machine: a network I/O library with extremely high scalability, performance and stability
Rack: a minimal interface between web servers and Ruby frameworks

Which makes it, with all humble humility, the most [...]

Has Zed jumped the shark ?

Zed Shaw, the creator of Mongrel, is writing some pretty nasty stuff about the Rails community, ThoughWorks and Ruby.

There’s no work for a smart man in a town full of stupid.

Although I agree there might be some stupid people working with Rails right now, there’s a huge number of very bright people too. And there’s [...]