June 29th, 2011 at 3:55PM

June 19th, 2011 at 4:10PM

Ruby Concurrency and EventMachine

April 11th, 2011 at 5:26PM
Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they’ve been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It’s an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It’s a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing. — http://quotevadis.com/post/4046940916/impossible-is-nothing
March 2nd, 2011 at 9:35AM

RubyOnBeer Ohm presentation

Ohm

Did a presentation at last night’s RubyOnBeer meetup. Went to Higher Ground at Saints - really cool venue.

February 9th, 2011 at 12:09PM

Redis, Resque & Friends

I recently did a presentation at the RubyFuZa 2011 ruby conference down in Cape Town. Cant wait for RubyFuZa 2012 :)

Check out the slides and let me know what you think.

Redis, Resque & Friends

November 18th, 2010 at 8:43AM

Retry and clear failed Resque jobs

This is for posterity’s sake :)

Retry all jobs:

(Resque::Failure.count-1).downto(0).each { |i| 
  Resque::Failure.requeue(i)
}

Retry jobs for a particular worker:

(Resque::Failure.count-1).downto(0).each { |i|
  payload_class = Resque::Failure.all(i)['payload']['class'] 
  Resque::Failure.requeue(i) if payload_class == 'MyWorker' 
}

Clear failed jobs:

Resque::Failure.clear

You get the idea :P

November 12th, 2010 at 3:19PM

Performing Disk Repairs on OSX without Install Disk

I dont travel with my OSX install disk (seriously, who does?) and found myself in a situation where i needed to repair my macbook pro’s hard drive using said installation disk.

There are two options if you find yourself in a similar position:

  • Start in safe mode: Hold shift down during start up (performs a simple disk scan)
  • Start in single user mode and run fsck: hold down command+s during start up and run the following command in the terminal prompt when ready: /sbin/fsck -fy

You’ll find more details on this apple support page

October 29th, 2010 at 7:51PM
Really beautiful time of year in Johannesburg at the moment: I <3 Jacaranda Trees

Really beautiful time of year in Johannesburg at the moment: I <3 Jacaranda Trees

October 29th, 2010 at 7:43PM
Not just code, but yoga too

I’m a qualified yoga teacher now too - check out my teacher profile in the link above :)
April 8th, 2010 at 9:29AM

Engine Yard have started a new project, Rails Dispatch with info about the upcoming Rails 3 release. They’ve also done an updated version of the famous “Blog in 15 minutes” screencast - see above.