Profile_bird

Hey there! pauldowman is using Twitter.

Twitter is a free service that lets you keep in touch with people through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What's happening? Join today to start receiving pauldowman's tweets.

Already using Twitter
from your phone? Click here.

pauldowman

  1. Solar power costs 50% less than it did a year ago: http://bit.ly/7jGE7C
  2. @tobi Congratulations!
  3. Disagree that URLs should be hidden. They empower the user. But developers should try to create user-friendly URLs. http://bit.ly/HzMAV
  4. @robertmacarthur Yes it's my first.
  5. @robertmacarthur Congratulations! I have one coming in 2 weeks too. Doubt I'll be tweeting throughout though :-)
  6. Paul Graham on Apple's bad karma: http://paulgraham.com/apple.html
  7. On my way to DemoCamp.
  8. Google is working on a replacement for the HTTP protocol: http://bit.ly/9bxxa
  9. Go has pre-emptively solved all code style arguments: http://bit.ly/2jpNrB
  10. Google's new programming language "Go" looks great for building server-based software. http://golang.org/
  11. @hcatlin Congratulations! Enjoy and have fun!
  12. Security flaw in TLS protocol, HTTPS vulnerable to man-in-the-middle attach: http://bit.ly/3dqOgc
  13. @wycats @ carllerche new gem bundler looks awesome, hope to try it this week. http://bit.ly/1o05JU
  14. @deadprogram No, not using ESI, but using a bit of JavaScript to make a small customization. And many requests are JSON.
  15. I'm going to DemoCamp 24. http://guestlistapp.com/events/7311
  16. HTTP caching can be freakin' awesome: we are now serving > 60% of Rails requests (i.e. dynamic pages) from Varnish!
  17. Fido users: SMS reminders stopped working? Try using Rogers in the setup. Worked for me.
  18. @github introduces Resque: Redis-backed queueing system: http://bit.ly/2lEnUw
  19. @awws Try ami-1501e27c plus the ec2onrails-experimental gem from gemcutter. Unfortunately haven't updated the docs though.
  20. Finally finished reading Neal Stephenson's Anathem. Epic and rewarding. His best IMHO. http://bit.ly/2JL9pn