Evan Weaver

simplicity


10 months ago by Evan Weaver on Snax.
Maximizing simplicity is the only guaranteed way to minimize software maintenance. Other techniques exist, but are situational. No complex system will be...

memcached gem performance across VMs


8 months ago by Evan Weaver on Snax.
Thanks to Evan Phoenix, memcached.gem 1.3.2 is compatible with Rubinius again. I have added Rubinius to the release QA, so it will stay this way.  The master...

ideal hdtv settings for xbox 360


4 months ago by Evan Weaver on Snax.
My XBox 360 broke, and since my new one supported HDMI, I reworked the connection to the TV (a Samsung PN50A450 plasma). It’s tricky to get the best...

hello heroku world


3 months ago by Evan Weaver on Snax.
I’ve been investigating various platform-as-a-service providers, and did some basic benchmarking on Heroku. I deployed a number of HTTP hello-world...