livando

I used to think ruby/rails was the best way to solve most problems, I still do, but I used to too.

I caught that too. tip of the cap to the owner of that one.

love this post, congrats.

this is a f'ing great idea.

"Multi-threading is a must, when scraping at scale."

I disagree on this point. Starting with a single threaded model allowed my team to scale quickly and with little additional overhead. What we have lost with performance we gained in simplicity and developer productivity. That being said tuning and porting portions of the app to a multi-threaded system is slotted to take place within the next year.

Start with single threaded and simple, move to multi-threaded scrapers when the juice is worth the squeeze.

It makes me happy to see .net developers get nice things.

Ruby 1.9.3-p545 was also released today with the following:

"This release is dedicated to the memory of our best comrade, Jim Weirich. Thank you, Jim. Rest in peace."

awesome, great way to spike out real time behavior in minutes.

With this article I was really hoping for some counter points of how JEE is doing some new and exciting things. Unfortunately, it looks like the only innovation was to throw some of the dead weight off the back of the truck. I can understand how corporate developers (i.e. can't use open source and it needs a support plan) would be happy about the lighter alternative approaches. I just don't see how given the whole technical landscape, that JEE is still a viable front runner.

Fair review, but I'm still pumped for mine to arrive. I don't mind supporting smart people trying to innovate, and I'm betting the app will be getting better all the time.

This is great news because I was sick of all my development tools being free and good.

it's not a memo, it's a mission statement.

Looks like a cool site! Anyway you can add some blinking texts and some scrolling marquees, and some really cool things that I've already built and feel like bragging about?

Conn, radio, request number one bra-34, request permission to transmit two released outgoing messages via SSIXS.

my web apps only need to handle about 5 hits a minute, so I'm good.

I agree, it's been a bit slow lately. But, I'll be happy to see HN slow that to have it run into the ground like reddit and so forth.

I concur with your advice. BigTweet is a nice little add on that the author should be proud of, but few would pay for. But if you keep rolling out apps, the port and exp will grow. Before you know it you have google jet money!

I shall live vicariously through you. All the best!