I’ve just pushed two plugins to github. The first is an improvement on the standard Defensio plugin that only checks the validity of your API key when posting articles or comments. This is better than checking each time a model that uses the plugin is instantiated as it doesn’t require contact with the [...]

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Back in Feburary 2007 myself and Andy went to BarcampLondon2 on an exploratory trip to bash around a few ideas for what would later become idlasso. I presented on scaling web applications, the presentation for which can be seen at slideshare or below:

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I’m really into rails performance (and now merb but that wasn’t around when this post was written) so decided to look at a comparison between the standard rails versions – 1.1, 1.2 and 2.0. In these tests the excellent railsbench was used to drive the tests – I favor this over the standard rails [...]

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