This is the best book I’ve read on software best practices: Steve McConnell’s Code Complete. It is full of gems. It is so good that I decided to summarise it and placed it on my desktop so I could look over it whenever I have the time. So here’s the summary. It’s far better to [...]
How do you memorise a speech? A speech delivered without referring to notes is a hallmark of good preparation. Often in my toastmasters meetings, speakers would prepare for their Big Moment by reading their notes. Sometimes I caught glimpses of their notes involuntarily. Lines after lines of tiny words. It was the speech pruned to [...]
Here’s a summary of where I found my how-tos when set up my VPS to host my sites: ShippingTogether, and my own site. My web host is Slicehost. It’s cheap and good. I’d definitely give my recommendation for them if you want a VPS. If you’re wondering whether to choose between a my VPS or [...]
It is very simple to add multiple rails apps in your NginX server. Here I’m using an example of 2 rails apps with 3 mongrels serving each app. This is what you need to do in your nginx.conf. … upstream mongrel_app1 { server 127.0.0.1:1000; server 127.0.0.1:1001; server 127.0.0.1:1002; } upstream mongrel_app2 { server 127.0.0.1:2000; server [...]