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Working around ‘error: failed to push some refs’ on Heroku 16 Jun 2013 | 11:17 am
I had a bad week this week trying to spin up some new Heroku dynos, getting loads of “pack-objects died of signal 13″ which is basically the connection being interrupted, even on our relatively small ...
Switching to Rubinus on OS X & Heroku 16 Jun 2013 | 10:44 am
Rubinus is a ruby VM written in C with true parallelism support, and a cool design that attempts to write as much of the interpreter as possible in ruby itself. It’s been developed for a few years now...
Puma on Heroku with MRI 16 Jun 2013 | 10:29 am
Or, How to use Puma like Unicorn I’ve been reading some very good things about Puma (all-Rack stack, proper thread support, & more). I gave it a try with the thread-friendly Rails4, on the thread-fri...
Puma on Heroku with RMI 16 Jun 2013 | 10:29 am
Or, How to use Puma like Unicorn I’ve been reading some very good things about Puma (all-Rack stack, proper thread support, & more). I gave it a try with the thread-friendly Rails4, on the thread-frie...
Pinterest’s ‘New User Experience’ Fails to Deliver 4 Jun 2013 | 06:27 pm
I was watching Ben Silbermann’s interview at D11 where he states (22:53): The experience that I’m really interested is when someone new joins Pinterest on any device how do we make it incredibly easy ...
Paying for Australia’s Future Broadband 6 May 2013 | 11:41 am
A lot has been made in the Australian media about the cost of the NBN. The Liberal party wants to implement a cheaper solution – albeit one that is less future proofed, and may end up costing more whe...
Announcing: gs-apns, a new fork of the apns gem. 29 Apr 2013 | 01:01 pm
For the last year Geospike has been using jtv-apns, itself a fork of apns. Our needs have grown, and today I announce our own fork of the APNS gem, name ‘gs-apns’. Gem on rubygems. Code & docs on gith...
A safer failsafe for beginBackgroundTaskWithExpirationHandler 28 Apr 2013 | 07:58 pm
As my brother succinctly put it “iOS likes to crash”. One such crash that can easily happen when you use background tasks is for your app to be killed for running the background task longer than the a...
Changes to how Rails 3.2.13 and 4.0 encodes unicode in JSON 28 Apr 2013 | 07:22 am
Heads up: how Rails handles unicode in JSON has changed in rails 3.2.13 and 4.0. Previously unicode characters would be encoded with \u1234 notation. This encoding was actually a bit buggy, anything o...
Remembering the iPad (original) 26 Apr 2013 | 07:29 am
This month the original iPad would have turned 3. That is, if it were not killed off with the release of iOS 6. Developers typically don’t support old OS versions very long (it gets increasingly expen...
