The Blog: October 2010

I just pushed out version 1.0.3 of the Brightcove gem. This version adds support for performing a file upload, which is useful if you need to create a video in Brightcove. I did have to add a dependency for Rest-Client to support the multipart file upload. Thankfully it all just worked.

Here at Agora Games, we are strong proponents of cloud computing for a number of reasons. The ability to scale outward quickly in a time of need continuously aids our processes, encouraging rapid growth and timely response when load increases past the threshold of what our infrastructure can handle. As such, we tend to run most of our applications on scalable cloud providers.

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Do you need to create background jobs, place those jobs on multiple queues, and process them later? And do you want to test your queue appropriately? Are you using Rails 3?
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How long should you keep a git fork around?

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If you’re looking for a way to do friendships in Rails 3, you might have a look at Amistad. I added support for blocking friendship requests and those changes have been integrated into master. One of the benefits of contributing this code was I got some exposure to RSpec.

Enjoy!

I pride myself in being forgetful, but sometimes this can have unfortunate consequences. For instance, whenever I want to use the css background shorthand property I simply can’t remember the order.

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If you start searching for test tracking and management software, you will run into Testlink. Although far from perfect, Testlink does some pretty cool things.  In the past, I kept track of my tests on proprietary software or open office spreadsheets, which are functional- but the organization offered by testlink moved my whole testing approach to a new level.

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Do people really think there are no relationships between data in NoSQL databases? Or that they’re doomed from the start?

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