Rails app with HTML5 Websockets

Posted by on Feb 1, 2012 in Blog, Ruby on Rails | No Comments

Reasoning: Recently on the project I have run into a requirement of delivering the results to the client browser in an instant that some delayed job has been completed. The architecture itself was pretty complex and the job sometimes took more than 3 seconds. Polling was taking too much of the resources and the delay ...

How To Finish Bad Work

Posted by on Nov 12, 2011 in Blog | No Comments

  I was recently given a very complicated task:  installing a highly dependent project in a complex environment ( one of 30 different configurable environments) without VMs or root privledges.   Now, to complicate things, image that you don’t have any guidance, not one thing written.   All you have is a poorly documented configuration ...