Amazon’s cloud computing services have made launching an app or a startup easier than it has ever been. Sometimes getting set up may be a little too easy and you can overlook a simple step that can save your business […]
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Earlier this week the New York Times reported a story on a large scale electronic payment scheme aimed at Brazil. Hundreds of thousands of computers are potentially affected, and it is estimated that the equivalent of billions of dollars have […]
You’ve always been able to view Workspace activity from the User Home and from notification emails. Now, we’ve made it even easier to see Workspace-specific activity from the Workspace itself, with the new Activity page. To enable the Activity page, […]
The AWS::S3 library for Ruby has been around since the release of Amazon S3 in 2006; hundreds, if not thousands, of applications use it. Consequently, it is not usually “the suspect” when looking for the cause of intermittent access errors […]
Have you just installed your new Godaddy certificate into your NGINX web server, and are you finding that some browsers (notably Safari) don’t trust your website when using your Godaddy SSL Certificate? This is manifest by the error message “Safari […]
Suppose that you have a MySQL Database, and in that database you have a non-trivial table with more than a million records. If you’re using that table with your Rails application, you might at some point like to add some […]
Our rails application runs on a number of servers, each with a number of mongrels, and we use Capistrano to handle our deployments. Typically, for deployments that involve changes to database structures (migrations), we put up our maintenance page, perform […]
This is the second post in a two part series (part 1 is here) on adding encryption to attachment_fu for Rails applications. What about making the file available for download? AVOIDING THE ISSUE OF SCALABILITY FOR A MOMENT (since sendfile […]