Scale with Rails Workshops

Jason is pre­sent­ing some kick ass work­shops on devel­op­ing, deploy­ing and financ­ing Rails-based applications.

To quote Jason:

“The result­ing work­shop then is a two-day, focused, log­i­cal and com­plete bottom-to-top work­shop where peo­ple can learn about how to staff, plan, man­age, develop, stage, test, deploy, mon­i­tor, scale their Rails-based appli­ca­tions on an entire plat­form and actu­ally do it in Solaris grid containers.”

Learn more about the work­shops here and you can signup for the avail­able work­shops in Laguna Beach (August 23–24) or Frank­furt (Octo­ber 25–26) here.

Pretty cool, and a great opor­tu­nity to try out some of the cool stuff the Joyent gang have been work­ing on. And you even get a T-shirt!

And of course I should men­tion that this is cour­tesy of the fine folks at Joyent.

Hey there, Rails developers

Could some­one in the Rails devel­oper com­mu­nity please cre­ate a web­mail appli­ca­tion that peri­od­i­cally saves what I’m writing?

I have this habit of spend­ing a painstak­ingly long time writ­ing emails and by the time I’m ready to send it, my ses­sion times out and I pretty much lose all of my elo­quent and thought­ful prose. I know, I know, I should be fre­quently sav­ing it as draft, but my brain doesn’t work that way and imag­ine I’m not alone in this. And hey, I’ve used a few web­mail accounts in my day and it’s clearly an area that needs improvement.

Look, I fig­ure with the whole Ajax and XML­HttpRe­quest busi­ness, this should really be a done deal.

What I’m after is the sim­plic­ity and use­ful­ness of Base­camp, with an autosave fea­ture that backs up what I’m writ­ing every 2–3 minutes.

I mean come on, that shouldn’t be so hard, should it?