Robbie Clutton

Robbie ramblings on traveling, technical thoughts, short stories and some more too.

Monday, January 29, 2007

5 hours later I got this...

Posted by Robbie at 3:34 pm

100th Blog post

I'd noticed that my blogger account was showing 100 posts for this blog and to be honest I was a little surprised. I thought I'd go...
Bear vs Shark strikes again - TV Billboards

Driving to San Francisco today, I saw a disturbing site - a TV Billboard. This was not a revolving billboard with three rotating adverts, t...
Load Balancing and High Availablity with Ultra Monkey

This post is heavily borrowed from the following sources: http://www.ultramonkey.org/3/topologies/ha-lb-eg.html http://linux-ha.org/GettingS...
GMail Log4J Appender

Application logging is vital for diagnostics on a server product, but there can be so much, how can you tell what to watch or follow? Throug...
Posting updates to Twitter with Ruby

Step one in my new Premiership updater: post status to Twitter. It's pretty easy, so I'll just dive straight into code: require ...
Notes from "Scaling MongoDB for Real-Time Analytics"

* Scaling MongoDB for Real-Time Analytics, a Shortcut around the mistakes I've made - Theo Hultberg Chief Architect, Burt 40gb, 50 milli...
Using custom rake tasks in your Rails build

With Rails you can create custom Rake tasks (I recommend reading RailsEnvy for a tutorial for rake tasks). Once you've got your task y...
Grails, Ant, Hudson and automated deployments

One of the things I like about Grails is the embedded server, it makes deployment and getting things up and running nice and simple. I'...

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