Most sites have a “Remember me” checkbox of some sort, which will store a permanent cookie, rather than a session cookie, so you don’t have to login a…

I just realized that my production servers were running the Ruby version of the MySQL driver, to the tune of a performance penalty of 10-15%, accordin…

Do you ever get the feeling that the captain has simply forgotten that the fasten seat belt sign is still on? And thought it’s probably because they’r…

In a single day, we’ve managed to fly to New York, along with our 1-year-old daughter, had an afternoon meeting with Martin Niesenholtz, the head of N…

The Rails-Commit mailing list has been down since August 19, and though it was a nice relief from the ADHD of the core team for a while, it is really …

I’m a big fan of companies that tackle hiring differently, like the print-on-demand company Lulu with The Lulu Quiz.

Note in particular the Renaiss…

I’ve had a problem for a while with the server that runs both this site and Boxes and Arrows where it would all of a sudden just race into an out-of-m…

I’m at a loss here. The image on the right shows fine on my Mac, and it shows fine in FireFox on my Windows XP PC, but on IE6, it shows as a broken i…

Speaking of the bubble in the housing market, Jason Kottke has this link for us from the New York Times, graphing the price of American houses since …