• @aslak_hellesoy your blog is throwing 502's in reply to aslak_hellesoy #
• finally started to publish my gems to gemcutter, jruby-quartz is available now http://bit.ly/7NGO5Z #
• finished the rails 2.3.5 upgrade for more notes and gotchas http://bit.ly/7FdX5L #
• Rails 2.3.3 to 2.3.5 upgrade gotchas: update your rspec and rspec-rails gems to 1.3.x #
• Rails 2.3.3 to 2.3.5 upgrade gotchas: ActiveSupport::JSON::ParseError no longer exists, use ActiveSupport::JSON.parse_error #
• Rails 2.3.3 to 2.3.5 upgrade gotchas: db:seed task exists in Rails, if you use seed_fu plugin it will default to db:seed_fu as the task name #
• having a blast with a hundred sinatra microapps running, (lightbulb moment) now i have to write a script to kill them #
• needed to test the http timeout stuff with jruby 1.4, sinatra to the rescue! in 2 seconds i wrote a microapp and spun up, friggin' awesome #
• working on the Rails 2.3.5 upgrade now, combined with jruby 1.4, the speed of our specs has improved #
• #jruby 1.4 upgrade complete without pulling any hair out and it seems a bit faster than 1.3.1, let's see if those timeout settings work #
• upgrading to jruby 1.4 right now due to net/http timeouts being ignored in versions < 1.4 causing threads and requests to hang forever #
• wagilefall – defn. Those under some disillusion claiming they are agile when they are really waterfall #
• RT @tonycoco BREAKING NEWS: Mark McGwire took steroids. In other news, kids like puppies! in reply to tonycoco #

Rails upgrade notes:
1.) Rails now has seeding functionality and along with it comes a new task, db:seed. If you use the seed_fu gem be aware that your db:seed call that worked with the gem is now executing the Rails version of db:seed. You will need to call rake db:seed_fu to get the gem version to [...]

@marccull jackpot – belgium beers and cheeses, i can't resist in reply to marccull #
looking for a place to live all today, exhausting, but a success! i really dig San Carlos #
@tyler_jennings the shakes and headache should start kicking in if they haven't already in reply to tyler_jennings #
@marccull @britt very soon… #
stoked about my [...]

the link for Berkshire holdings list http://bit.ly/3ZeR4l #
Warren Buffet's Berkshire holdings A-Z for 2010, make some smart investments for the New Year! #
My French is horrible this is going to be interesting #
On a high speed train from Amsterdam to Paris #

Merry Xmas American Airlines thanks for the upgrade #
Off to London, upgraded to biz class, American Airlines rocks! #

Google in talks to buy Yelp, they can't buy everybody…oh wait yes they can #
IL to take Gitmo detainees – really??? We couldn't put them in N. Dakota or Montana, no send them to a place of cities+ppl+skyscrapers wtf #

just updated my gems and then there was Rails 2.3.5 #

It is becoming increasingly popular to mix technologies, frameworks, and languages to power a web site. So what happens when you want to share session data between some permutation of a Ruby, PHP, .NET, Python, Java web framework? Well of course using cookies is the first thing that should pop into your head, and with [...]

off to Arkansas to visit the fam, hoping for warmer weather and some peace and quiet #
@tyler_jennings super jealous, be sure not to OD on caffeine in reply to tyler_jennings #

squid cache rocks but the config is overwhelming #
back home after drinks at the wit, great micro brew selections #
On the record I do not think Maven is a very good tool, just tired of hearing complaints about unhappy users, build your own and move on #
@tyler_jennings People should starting shaming themselves for adopting it, [...]