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Eliminating my trivial inconveniences building Discourse 3 May 2013 | 06:35 am
Many developers spend a fair amount of the day waiting: Waiting for a build to end Waiting for search results to come up Waiting for an editor to launch Waiting for tests to run Waiting for a bos...
Flame graphs in Ruby MiniProfiler 19 Mar 2013 | 06:47 am
Ruby 2.0 is just out-of-the-door. My favorite new feature in Ruby 2.0 is the new highly efficient mechanism for gathering stack traces. In Ruby 1.9.3 I would struggle really hard to gather more than ...
Do you smoke test? 22 Feb 2013 | 10:44 am
I broke Discourse yesterday. Not in the “its just a little bit broken sense”. Instead, in the absolutely everything is broken and every page returns a 500 error code, sense. We already do so much to...
Mobile mapping is not a cartographic problem, it is a search problem. 29 Sep 2012 | 07:58 pm
Much has been said about the absolute failure of iOS 6 in the mapping department. Apple took one of its killer features in iOS and destroyed it. Completely. Tim Cook is very clear about the reason th...
MiniProfiler Ruby Edition 12 Jul 2012 | 06:41 pm
About a year ago we released a MiniProfiler for .Net. Ever since, I have been wishing for a Ruby port. It seems I was not alone as this Stack Overflow question attests. I am very happy to now announ...
Leaving Stack Exchange 14 Jun 2012 | 08:12 pm
For the last 2 years I lived and breathed my job at Stack Exchange, now I am moving on. It has been an awesome ride, I wanted to recap on some of the things I did and perhaps explain why I am moving o...
Testing 3 million hyperlinks, lessons learned 7 Jun 2012 | 02:28 pm
There are over 3 million distinct links in the Stack Exchange network. Over time many of these links rot and stop working. Recently, I spent some time writing tools to determine which links are broke...
Sam's ultimate web performance tool and resource list 23 Mar 2012 | 12:01 pm
While preparing for my talk at Codemania I started filling my slides with links, clearly not something that scales. So, instead, here is a big list of interesting tools and resources that can help you...
Why upgrading your Linux Kernel will make your customers much happier 1 Mar 2012 | 02:28 pm
Sometimes we hear that crazy developer talk about some magical thing you can do that will increase performance everywhere by 30% (feel free to replace that percentage with whatever sits right for you)...
MiniProfiler 2.0, almost out of the gate 22 Feb 2012 | 07:50 pm
Nine months ago I blogged about our MiniProfiler open source project. I used some hyperbole in the announcement blog. I goaded others to port MiniProfiler to their favourite web stack and accused us o...
