http://www.brokenbuild.com/blog Databases, code and all things agile. Fri, 19 Aug 2011 22:44:12 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Hark.com now offers mixing up some sounds with your favorite photos. Check out this photo originally from http://nullpoint.imgur.com/be_mario#P0Siy mixed up with the coin sound from Mario Brothers Go check it out! Super Mario Bros. Coin Block http://www.brokenbuild.com/blog/2011/08/19/real-life-mario-coin-block/ REE-cpu-memory-annotated Originally uploaded by devinbenhur Monthly graph showing elimination of memory leak and dramatic reduction in cpu use deploying rails app on Ruby Enterprise at my current employer instead of Ubuntu Hardy's ruby-1.8.6.111. From flickr, uploaded by devinbenhur on 18 Aug 10, 2010. http://www.brokenbuild.com/blog/2010/08/18/ruby-enterprise-edition-is-nice/ SR-410 MP 107 10-11-2009 Originally uploaded by Washington State Dept of Transportation It takes a giant landslide to destroy a quarter mile of road way. It's the end of summer, it hasn't rained yet here... what was the tipping point for it? http://www.brokenbuild.com/blog/2009/10/11/sr-410-mp-107-10-11-2009/ Lately I've been working on mailing out wedding invitations. The easiest way to print address labels on OS X is to select contacts or a group in Address Book, hit print and change the Page option to "Avery Standard" then select the label type. Easy. The hard ... http://www.brokenbuild.com/blog/2009/05/09/cleaning-up-your-address-book-on-os-x-with-ruby/ I gave a talk at Seattle Code Camp on testing Javascript about TDD (test driven development) in Javascript using jsunit, JSSpec and Screw.Unit. One thing to come out of this is a github project that is setup to allow you to test your javascript against all three frameworks ... http://www.brokenbuild.com/blog/2008/11/17/exploring-test-driven-development-with-javascript-a-look-at-jsunit-jsspec-and-screwunit/ The psychological principle is this: anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at that moment. Robert Benchley For the next month I will be free to wander around aimlessly. If you've been wanting ... http://www.brokenbuild.com/blog/2008/08/06/back-to-my-roots-procrastinating-for-fun-and-profit/ Eventual consistency. The storage system guarantees that if no new updates are made to the object eventually (after the inconsistency window closes) all accesses will return the last updated value. My coworker wrote up our experience writing ruby integration tests against Amazon SimpleDB. You should know that we ... http://www.brokenbuild.com/blog/2008/08/05/handling-eventual-consistency-with-amazon-simpledb-and-ruby/ Here are some must have bash PS1 commands if you're working in multiple branches with various SCMs like git, svn or bzr. With this in your .bash_profile you'll end up getting the following PS1 wesmaldonado:(git)gchartrb[master]/$ wesmaldonado:(svn)wumpus_project[trunk:141279]/$ Found at Lazy Bash cd aliases. The latest can ... http://www.brokenbuild.com/blog/2008/06/30/getting-git-subversion-and-bazaar-version-control-information-into-your-bash-prompt/ "You can't compare this to South Lake Union or downtown," he says. "Not all areas are created equal." Jeff Thompson, of the Freehold Group, the development company that has spearheaded the Dravus effort Seattle Times: Red tape fences in Interbay overhaul Have a look at this ... http://www.brokenbuild.com/blog/2008/06/23/seattles-interbay-is-no-south-lake-union/ A story about an internet crush... … a few weeks later when I checked my spam filter. “Congrats–most women have to meet me at least twice before a crush wears off,” he’d replied. Cute. I replied, and we ended up having a bizarre but hilarious (to us) discussion about ... http://www.brokenbuild.com/blog/2008/06/18/found-in-the-spam-filter-a-relationship-failure-borne-of-http-error-codes/