Map Reduce: My recent talk

I recently made a talk for Map Reduce with a focus on Ruby.

The mystical “Tableless” Model for rails

I had a bright idea for an improvement for the app I am currently working on. I have a Rails model that has only 2 rows in the database and the data is never changed, it has quite a lot of relationships and is used quite extensively. My idea was to remove the database out of the equasion and create a Model that would be entirely self dependent. Here I will show you my methods of maddness:

My Startup Weekend in Adelaide

I recently attended startup weekend in Adelaide. I was really excited because it would be a good opportunity to build something and test my new skills I had learn recently programming ruby (and using rails).

PHP Debugging

Recently while working on a particular project we had some strange errors that came up. In the usual php like way, the error messages where not very helpful and didn’t allude to what the actual problem was. Have you seen an error like this before?