CoderTakeout - Ruby Follow

Just finished speaking at the delightful Cloud East Conference in Cambridge, England! Glad to say that my velociraptor slide went over well. Bridget and I have been visiting...

Rails 4, turbolinks and wiselinks - A look at two ways to get in-page updates. Summer of Design - 12 week online course for developers.

By now you’ve heard that Engine Yard is proudly presenting our inaugural developer conference, Distill , on August 8-9. In addition to a lovely Treasure Island venue and a...

Three Approaches to Remote Pair Programming - A quick rundown on the current state of the art. Intermediate RubyGem Development - Covering dependency management, testing, and...

Our friends Ed Finkler and Chris Hartjes recently had a chat about testing in PHP.  Read on to get the low down on different testing tools and their relative merits--check it...

UnQLite - Embeddable NoSQL database engine. LicenseFinder - Help your lawyers figure out how your gems are licensed. This stuff is, by the way, an utter mess in the ruby...

Searchlight - Searching gem that minimizes magic. Comes with ActiveRecord integration module. Open Source Report Card - Analyze a GitHub user's activity for interesting...

Week of May 13 - May 19, 2013 The master code is, as one would expect, in upheaval again. This week featured a big rewrite of callback internals, though I haven't sussed out...

migrating from iPhoto to Dropbox, from feature rich to future proof - I'm starting to think it's time to get off of OS/X. Walled gardens do not attract me. New gem released:...

I spent this week with the team of engineers who made Riak on Engine Yard Cloud possible, attending RICON East : all Distributed Systems, all the time. Later in the week we...

Note : Engine Yard friend Daragh Curran , Head of Product Engineering, Intercom has graciously let...

How to make a Rubygem - Setting up the basic structure. Patching Ruby for Faster Rails Startup, Revisited - Made easier with rvm. Curly - Template language that separates...

nginx, PageSpeed, and Amazon CloudFront - How to speed up static asset serving. Gem Activation and You: Part I - Start of a series on how RubyGems works. Ruby 1.9.2-p429 is...

Hello from NYC! We stopped by RICON East to share great news . We are thrilled to announce the General Availability of Riak on Engine Yard Cloud. Riak is our first highly...

We’re excited to announce the general availability of PHP on Engine Yard Cloud. PHP has been an important part of Engine Yard’s growing family since the acquisition of...