A day in the life of a slow page at Stack Overflow
I have been spending a fair amount of time tuning Stack Overflow, in this post I will walk through the process of tuning a single page.
Writing about software, performance, Ruby, Discourse, and technology.
I have been spending a fair amount of time tuning Stack Overflow, in this post I will walk through the process of tuning a single page.
Does the world even need another ORM? Why we took a step back at Stack Overflow and wrote our own mini ORM
At my new job I have been looking at better ways of highlighting recent interesting answers. Here is a list of answers I came across in July that I found interesting.
Diagnosing runaway/high CPU in production .Net apps has always been a dark art reserved for the true master debuggers. No longer.
A little bit about my new bug tracker. Can tracking bugs be fun?
I love rspec, and wanted to see what happens if you bring it to .Net, here is a tiny step by step guide to writing your own rspec tests for a C# project.
After a lot of thought and research I have decided to see if we can make a business out of Media Browser.
Media Browser / Video Browser has always been free "as-in-beer":http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?FreeAsInBeer and free as-in-speech. Will it remain free?
About some upcoming features for Media Browser.
We just changed the way our source code is licensed, this post covers the reasons and details of the changes.