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More Maintenance

This Sunday, from 9am until 11am GMT, PMOG will be undergoing some maintenance.
Stay asleep, as always, that’s the safest bet!

Men At Work

If only maintenance could be achieved through passive activites.
Alas, it cannot.
For some, Sunday mornings may be easy. For others, pie is the only thing that is easy. For us Trustees, though, we will be hard at work for a couple of hours this Sunday morning (9am - 11pm GMT, 1am - 3am PST).
You may experience [...]

Maintenance

Great news, there’s more maintenance on the way!
On Sunday 25th May PMOG will be down for some routine maintenance between 9am and 12pm GMT.
On a Sunday, mind, you should either be asleep in bed or asleep in church, so missing out on all those datapoints won’t hurt all that much

Maintenance

Hello,
We’re going to run some general maintenance tomorrow at 10am GMT for 1 hour.
During this time, PMOG will be offline.
Never fear, you’ll be earning valuable datapoints shortly after!

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 [...]