Archive for February, 2008

WADOT Flick Photos of Snoqualmie Pass Avalanche

The seattle metroblog pointed out that the WADOT puts photos on flickr. Here is an example of the 300 foot long avalanche that closed I-90 for several days this winter (Jan 2008).

Acunote/Nimble Method Patches Speeding up Ruby on Rails

The new Ruby on Rails patches by Acunote/Nimble Method are speeding up Ruby on Rails by a claimed 5X… a friend of mine tried just the ActiveRecord::Base change and reported this:

Yup. I actually just did the ActiveRecord::Base change alone and got a good boost. The code change is pretty solid too. [...]