Nate Klaiber

Jonathan Snook's spam prevention ported to Rails

Jonathan Snook recently released his blog plugin, appropriately called Snogs. He did a great job working with some great spam prevention techniques and it has been ported as a Rails Plugin. Thanks to both Jonathan and Russell for the nice work.

This entry was written on June 19th, 2008. It was filed under Programming. It was tagged with snogs, jonathansnook, snook, rails, ruby, plugins, russellnorris, and luckysneaks

Twitter said to be abandoning Rails

"But let’s be real for one minute. Twitter doesn’t suck because of Rails. Twitter sucks because they have ridiculous amounts of traffic (especially to their API and SMS gateways), a limited ability to cache (a non-realtime Twitter is a pretty useless Twitter), and (as far as I can tell), they’re not making any money, so they probably have limited resources to pour into more hardware." (via)

Well said, Jeff. Even if you do want to see them use Django.

This entry was written on May 15th, 2008. It was filed under Bookmarked. It was tagged with jeffcroft, twitter, rails, ruby, rubyonrails, scaling, sms, and api

Rails for PHP developers

Are you a PHP programmer interested in taking a peak at Ruby and Ruby on Rails? Be sure to check out Rails for PHP Developers. It even has a full PHP reference that maps all of the PHP functions to their Ruby/Rails counterpart.

On a side note, I apologize for the recent surge of photos injected into my feed. This was an error on my part and has been resolved. So, no more pictures.

This entry was written on May 13th, 2008. It was tagged with php, rails, ruby, and rubyonrails