technical
Firefox Memory Usage High
Lately I have been finding that firefox is eating up so much memory in my system. After long usage (with even few tabs open), the memory usage on my system shoots up to a crazy 500 MB + which is insane. I have seen this a couple of times now and there are other people […]
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Ruby on rails learning curve!
The post should be called my ruby on rails learning curve. I just wanted to write about what it was for a person like me to learn ruby on rails and get productive in it and make something like Muziboo.com
I was introduced to rails by a cousin of mine when I was trying to decide […]
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Active record and Mongrel Upload Progress Plugin
Muziboo is a pretty upload intensive website. Also there is the issue of resampling the MP3 file so that the flash player plays it well (Frequencies not multiple of 11025 Hz are ‘chipmunked’ in flash). I started looking into the mongrel_upload_progress plugin yesterday and found this demo to get me started. It works […]
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Tag clouds with acts_as_taggable for different Taggable Types
So you are building a cool new web 2.0 startup and want to have the cool tagging feature. If you are using ruby on rails, you can use Acts_As_Taggable Plugin . There is a neat way to build a tag cloud explained here.
Now acts_as_taggable uses a field called taggable_type to know what object this tag […]
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Finding a webhost !
Hi,
So this is my another new blog
Last one month or so has been a lot of experimentation in terms of webhosts. I tried godaddy.com, dreamhost and hostingrails.com. Here is my take on all of them. Again this is just a personal viewpoint and may/may not apply to other people. Depends what you are looking […]
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