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Geolocation, Rails and MongoDB- a recipe for success

~1 year ago by Gautam Rege on Josh Software - Where Programming is an Art!.
‘Geolocation’ seems to be the best dish being served today. Every web-portal, every mobile app wants to be sensitive to a persons location....

What I like about Rails3

~1 year ago by Gautam Rege on Josh Software - Where Programming is an Art!.
This is NOT a post about differences between Rails 2.x and Rails 3 but these are some musings about what I love in Rails. A lot of goodies come ‘in...

Do you need a Push Notification Manager? – Redis PubSub to the rescue

over 1 year ago by Gautam Rege on Josh Software - Where Programming is an Art!.
Happy New Year! And its indeed an awesome start to a surely prosperous year — my stunts with Redis PubSub worked ! We have been looking at getting...

Multiple Applications with Devise, Omniauth and Single Sign On

over 1 year ago by Gautam Rege on Josh Software - Where Programming is an Art!.
The best way to scale an application is to split the application business logic into different inter-communicable components. However, authenticating, authorizing...

Uploading multiple files with nginx upload module and upload progress bar

over 1 year ago by Gautam Rege on Josh Software - Where Programming is an Art!.
Uploading files ‘efficiently’ has also been a pain point in most apps. I finally got to experiment with: nginx upload module (http://www.grid...

RedDotRubyConf – fun times ahead

~1 year ago by Gautam Rege on Josh Software - Where Programming is an Art!.
RedDotRubyConf could be renamed FunConf (I know there is already one) but this one would rank way up there! Considering there was Robin, Batman and Superman...

Ruby Conf India 2011 – The Good, Bad and the Ugly

12 months ago by Gautam Rege on Josh Software - Where Programming is an Art!.
I delayed my post on RubyConfIndia 2011 roundup for a reason! There are plenty of good blog posts doing a round-up of RubyConfIndia here and most of the...

Code + Beer + Enthusiasm = Pune Hackfest!

11 months ago by Gautam Rege on Josh Software - Where Programming is an Art!.
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IndexTank – So long and thanks for all the fish!

7 months ago by Gautam Rege on Josh Software - Where Programming is an Art!.
IndexTank got acquired by LinkedIn just a while back and I received a newsletter saying that they may discontinue services in 6 months. My tweet about this...

Case Study: Improving Performance of MySQL, Thinking Sphinx in a Rails app

6 months ago by Gautam Rege on Josh Software - Where Programming is an Art!.
Recently, we faced a huge performance problem with one of our installed apps. The application is a Call Center ERP solution. The Call model is updated very...