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Wheeler: How to Prevent the next Heartbleed http://www.dwheeler.com/essays/heartbleed.html Rails 3.2.18, 4.0.5 and 4.1.1 have been released! http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2014/5/6/Rails_3_2_18_4_0_5_and_4_1_1_have_been_released/ Is TDD Dead? The big fight live! https://plus.google.com/events/ci2g23mk0lh9too9bgbp3rbut0k Atlassian: Moving from roadmaps to requirements http://blogs.atlassian.com/2014/05/moving-roadmaps-requirements/ Update on Disqus: It’s Still About Realtime, But Go Demolishes Python http://highscalability.com/blog/2014/5/7/update-on-disqus-its-still-about-realtime-but-go-demolishes.html

Spotify engineering culture (part 1) http://labs.spotify.com/2014/03/27/spotify-engineering-culture-part-1/ Etsy: Web Experimentation with New Visitors http://codeascraft.com/2014/04/03/web-experimentation-with-new-visitors/ TED: What motivates us at work? 7 fascinating studies that give insights http://blog.ted.com/2013/04/10/what-motivates-us-at-work-7-fascinating-studies-that-give-insights/

I just finished converting the bikesoup search to use the sphinx search engine instead of a simple doctrine fulltext search with filters. One thing I found helpful are sphinx config scripts. Instead of hard-coding the configuration you can use any scripting language to produce the sphinx configuration. They just have to start with #! and sphinx will execute them and use the output as the configuration. This is the simplified version of my main config file /etc/sphinx/sphinx.conf: ...

Another brand new toy. After my last trip to the UK for bikesoup I decided that it was about time to get a proper laptop. So far I only have a netbook, which is very convenient when size and weight matter. But for getting work done it is just to small, the main problem is the screen size and resolution. I had a look around for good full sized laptops and the only brands producing something with the quality I had in mind were Apple and Lenovo. The advantages of the Apple over Lenovo are better built quality, battery life and easy to buy locally. I choose the Lenovo, because you can order it with more gadgets, swappable batteries and mostly because it isn’t an Apple as I despise where the company is going and I already had bad experiences with Linux and iPods. This is the configuration I finally got. ...

I have been one of the many converts to git and try to use it whenever possible. So far this has been mostly for smaller project, open source projects, Fedora and a little bit at work. bikesoup is my first bigger project using git. I started with initial development on the master branch and created feature branches which got merged back into master. Before going live for the first time I created a live branch. This is pretty much what you would do in subversion too, maybe with the exception of any feature branches. ...