Archive for June, 2008

Twitter Green

I’ve just taken up using Twitter.  So far so good.  Two points though, one of which isn’t the fault of Twitter but: 1. DowningStreet doesn’t bloody shut up!! 2. The site has complained about being snowed under 3 times so far.  They could sort this easily by using Django instead of Rails. Other than that [...]

Realistic Load Tests

I’ve always been a bit uncomfortable with the claims of 250 req/sec for this and 500 req/sec for that. It’s never felt quite….right.  Or real.  After all how many sites truly get that many concurrent requests?  How many visitors a day would you need to get spikes of 500 req/sec hitting your server? Well it [...]

Django Found’s….

A Foundation!! Putting aside my grammatically dodgy statement the Django Project (the b3zt framework evaz!) has created the Django Foundation.  A non-profit organisation in the same vein as Mozilla, Apache, etc it aims to oversee the development, direction and future of the Django project. You can find out more about the groups goals at the [...]

Rails 2.1 eBook

I’m getting bored of Rails now but if you’re interested in an eBook detailing the changes in the latest 2.1 release then you can’t go far wrong with this one: Free Rails Ebook Many professionals who are done with their 70-290 and 70-291 prefer writing help e-books for students who are in the middle of [...]