Archive for the ‘Development’ Category

Chunks for the String method.

Wednesday, September 10th, 2008

If you want to generate some sort of chunks from a large strings you can use the following method. You give as a param an array of arrays, each array is pointing with % the start position of the chunk and the last position. class String def String.random_alphanumeric(size=16) ...

Dagens PS and PS Spy

Sunday, September 7th, 2008

We have launched the website PS Spy. It is a news monitoring website. The website is written using Ruby on Rails, MySQL and Python code and a little bit Java on some key parts. I am very pround of the webhunter and the accuracy with which we find and deliver news. Maybe ...

Benchmarking web application

Friday, September 5th, 2008

Load test with tsung - a erlang project. The nice stuff is that the test can be runned on multi machines which will do the tests. Works with proxy. I think it is very nice idea to test it on my next load test. http://tsung.erlang-projects.org/

Source code websites

Saturday, August 30th, 2008

http://www.refactormycode.com http://snippets.dzone.com/tag/split http://www.splunk.com Articles: http://thedailywtf.com/

Rails caching notes

Tuesday, August 26th, 2008

General Notes Very nice tutorial for rails 2.1 caching. API references: Fragments, Sweepers, the Store Post how to move the page cache in a folder with some server examples Observing Controllers with Sweepers Here is described how you can use the Sweepers to observe controller actions. I totaly agree that the documenation is very bad ...

Nginx with Rails

Tuesday, August 19th, 2008

downloaded from here documentation here If you want to try different solution check it haproxy

Semantic web

Tuesday, August 5th, 2008

http://www.powerset.com/ http://www.trueknowledge.com/ http://www.spock.com/ good blog (bg) lecutre in bg

Do you need to change a filename before sending it ?

Thursday, July 17th, 2008

Rails action to send binary data I have one old application where the attachment is store as an id in the filesystem. The customer wants to have the attachment with the right name. So I have made this small action which accepts the id of the requested object and send the ...

Bulgarian stopwords

Wednesday, July 9th, 2008

I want to start such a list so I will become maintain a Bulgarian list here which I will use for my website www.cenite.com As a base source I will use this list here Please submit your suggestions. Note: I have removed a lot of words from the starting list.

Javascript in the window.name

Monday, July 7th, 2008

Wow. What a nice idea. http://code.google.com/p/quipt/ Note: if you want to make the test.html to work checkout and test on http://... it is some beta but it works great only in Firefox