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Monthly Archives: January 2008

Midnight Maintenance

PMOG will be down for maintenance on Thursday, 31 January, midnight California time. We should be back up some time after that! Just a few hours, we think, from where we sit, before the maintenance starts.

PMOG Past 100!

Our preliminary run for PMOG is now surpassed 100 users!

Staring into a Portal on PMOG

We’re so excited to be playing this game again with people. We’ve been hatching these ideas for almost two years now. We took the last few months to prepare a version of PMOG more deeply integrated with surfing, and [...]

Sql Profiler

As all good Ruby on Rails programmers know, there are plenty of plugins out there to help you get on with creating your application. Not having to re-invent the wheel for things like tags and pagination can be a huge blessing.
There are also a great deal of plugins that attempt to give developers an idea [...]

acts_as_list :scope

With a helpful nudge from Artur, we’ve been using UUID primary keys on almost all of our Rails models to ward off scalability problems further down the line (see this for a decent guide to how and why).
In general, Rails copes with it all extremely well. As you’d expect, Rails handles standard MySQL primary keys [...]