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VPS Performance Comparison and Benchmarking - James Crisp
http://jamescrisp.org/2012/06/20/vps-performance-comparison-and-benchmarking
Coding, calisthenics, book reviews, mind hacks and the occasional personal bit. VPS Performance Comparison and Benchmarking. What VPS / cloud instance provider gives you the best bang for buck for a small linux server? Here is the script:. It uses ls and man to test wait for disk and then some made up maths to test the CPU. It's not perfect but gives a good indication of performance. Linde 512mb Tokyo (Zen). Octopus 650mb Australia (VMWare). Octopus is running a site for me with a significant cron job on...
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Moving to HTTPS, Rails force_ssl and Rollback - James Crisp
http://jamescrisp.org/2013/08/04/moving-to-https-rails-force_ssl-and-rollback
Coding, calisthenics, book reviews, mind hacks and the occasional personal bit. Moving to HTTPS, Rails force ssl and Rollback. We recently moved the Getup. Rails HTTPS and force ssl. The easiest and simplest way of moving a Rails 3 app to all HTTPS is to simply set force ssl = true in relevant environment files. This then causes Rack ssl middleware. To be loaded as the first middleware. As you can see from the code. HSTS to ensure that in supported browsers, nobody can ever go to HTTP again! It is not po...
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iAwards Win for CommunityRun / ControlShift! - James Crisp
http://jamescrisp.org/2013/06/19/iawards-win-for-communityrun-controlshift
Coding, calisthenics, book reviews, mind hacks and the occasional personal bit. IAwards Win for CommunityRun / ControlShift! Very pleased to announce that CommunityRun. And the ControlShift platform. Have won the NSW iAwards. In the Community Category. Many thanks to everyone from GetUp, ThoughtWorks and ControlShift labs for all the hard work and perseverance. I'm proud to have been part of the team to build a tool that lets anyone start and run their own campaign to improve things in their community.
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Talk tonight: Responsive Layout with HTML5 - James Crisp
http://jamescrisp.org/2012/11/27/talk-tonight-responsive-layout-with-html5
Coding, calisthenics, book reviews, mind hacks and the occasional personal bit. Talk tonight: Responsive Layout with HTML5. I'll be giving a talk at Sydney ALT.NET. Want to build a web application which dynamically changes layout to best suit the client, be it mobile, tablet or desktop with the same HTML? Fun times with HTML5, Bootstrap, HAML and Sass. You'll get to see it in action, and the code behind the magic. To help with catering. See you there! Laquo; VPS Performance Comparison and Benchmarking.
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Moving to HTTPS, Rails force_ssl and Rollback - James Crisp
http://jamescrisp.org/category/getup
Coding, calisthenics, book reviews, mind hacks and the occasional personal bit. Moving to HTTPS, Rails force ssl and Rollback. We recently moved the Getup. Rails HTTPS and force ssl. The easiest and simplest way of moving a Rails 3 app to all HTTPS is to simply set force ssl = true in relevant environment files. This then causes Rack ssl middleware. To be loaded as the first middleware. As you can see from the code. HSTS to ensure that in supported browsers, nobody can ever go to HTTP again! It is not po...
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Talk on Tues: Moving to HTTPS - James Crisp
http://jamescrisp.org/2013/07/28/talk-moving-to-https
Coding, calisthenics, book reviews, mind hacks and the occasional personal bit. Talk on Tues: Moving to HTTPS. I'll be giving a talk at Sydney ALT.NET. After recently moving the Getup. Site fully to HTTPS, James will share with you security pitfalls, the justification for the move from mixed HTTP/HTTPS, lessons learnt, and performance tips. A romp through the protocols of the web with riffs on status codes, HSTS, domain verification, and interesting headers. This talk could save your bacon.
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Talk: Add a billion row data warehouse to your App.. with Redshift, sql and duct tape! - James Crisp
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Coding, calisthenics, book reviews, mind hacks and the occasional personal bit. Talk: Add a billion row data warehouse to your App. with Redshift, sql and duct tape! Come along to Sydney ALT.NET. For a BIG data night. I'll be giving a talk on Redshift:. Started to hit the point where your transactional database is not the right place for running reporting queries and experimental data science? Keen to chuck in more data from web logs, CRMs, facebook, etc so you can start learning more about your users?
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Jetstar Review: Booking a holiday package - James Crisp
http://jamescrisp.org/2011/06/11/jetstar-review-booking-a-holiday-package
Coding, calisthenics, book reviews, mind hacks and the occasional personal bit. Jetstar Review: Booking a holiday package. Went to the Jetstar site. I then tried to click the 'Reviews and Information' link which had worked earlier when I'd been doing the price comparison. This time, I got an exception message:. For the technical minded, you can see that the link from the package configuration page was faulty and did not include a 'hotelId' (bug? Somewhat concerned, I continued with the booking process...
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Moving to HTTPS, Rails force_ssl and Rollback - James Crisp
http://jamescrisp.org/category/ruby-rails
Coding, calisthenics, book reviews, mind hacks and the occasional personal bit. Moving to HTTPS, Rails force ssl and Rollback. We recently moved the Getup. Rails HTTPS and force ssl. The easiest and simplest way of moving a Rails 3 app to all HTTPS is to simply set force ssl = true in relevant environment files. This then causes Rack ssl middleware. To be loaded as the first middleware. As you can see from the code. HSTS to ensure that in supported browsers, nobody can ever go to HTTP again! It is not po...
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Talk: Add a billion row data warehouse to your App.. with Redshift, sql and duct tape! - James Crisp
http://jamescrisp.org/2014/06/16/talk-add-a-billion-row-data-warehouse-to-your-app-with-redshift-sql-and-duct-tape
Coding, calisthenics, book reviews, mind hacks and the occasional personal bit. Talk: Add a billion row data warehouse to your App. with Redshift, sql and duct tape! Come along to Sydney ALT.NET. For a BIG data night. I'll be giving a talk on Redshift:. Started to hit the point where your transactional database is not the right place for running reporting queries and experimental data science? Keen to chuck in more data from web logs, CRMs, facebook, etc so you can start learning more about your users?
