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Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes

over 2 years ago by Rein Henrichs on ReinH - Home.
A couple months ago, I resigned my position at Hashrocket. This was not an easy decision for me. Working with the rocketeers has been a very fulfilling...

How to Cache Anything With ActiveSupport

~3 years ago by Rein Henrichs on ReinH - Home.
We use a REST-like web service to communicate with a large Endeca index. This web service is stateless and uses JSON. Unfortunately, its performance leaves...

Custom FiveRuns TuneUp Instrumentation

~3 years ago by Rein Henrichs on ReinH - Home.
TuneUp is a development performance monitoring tool from FiveRuns. It can help you catch poorly performing actions and queries early and is a great tool...

Simplify Your Dev Environment With Passenger Pane

~3 years ago by Rein Henrichs on ReinH - Home.
On OS X? Develop web applications with Rails? Or Merb? Or Sinatra? Or any other Rack compatible framework? Want drag-and-drop and point-and-click development...

Switching to HTML

~3 years ago by Rein Henrichs on ReinH - Home.
A holy war has long raged between proponents of HTML and proponents of XHTML. HTML wins. Bitches....

A Git Workflow for Agile Teams

~3 years ago by Rein Henrichs on ReinH - Home.
At Hashrocket we use git both internally and in our Agile mentoring and training. Git gives us the flexibility to design a version control workflow that...

Git It, Git It? Good!

~4 years ago by ReinH on ReinH - Home.
Last week, I gave a presentation on the git version control system. Apparently it went pretty well. The slides are available for those who are interested...

Simple git Continous Integration

over 4 years ago by ReinH on ReinH - Home.
Update: It looks like Chris Wanstrath (of Github fame) beat me to this one. Clearly, the git is strong with this one. Preventing your developers (and...

New jQuery AutoComplete Plugin

over 4 years ago by ReinH on ReinH - Home.
There's a new jQuery AutoComplete plugin on thThere's a new jQuery AutoComplete plugin on the block. It's fast, it's small, and it's simple to use. Prepare...

Awesome New Blog

over 4 years ago by ReinH on ReinH - Home.
Rodrigo Kochenburger has (finally) started a blog. Rodrigo is an experienced Rails developer from Brazil — and a friend of mine — and I’...