Shef Otis grabs the mic from Garrick and asks him about podcasting, Cullect, coffee roasting, and parenting. [43 min].
Author Archives: Garrick van Buren
Cullect in 3 Minutes
Here’s a quick 3 minute snippet from the latest First Crack podcast where Idescribe what Cullect is and how I use it. Cullect in 3 Minutes .mp3 The full conversation is at First Crack #118 – Shef Turns the Tables on Garrick
First Crack 117. Paul & Scott from 45th Parallel Spirits
A couple years back Scott Davis and Paul Werni founded 45th Parallel Spirits, a distillery in New Richmond, WI – just a quick 45 minute drive from northeast Minneapolis. While there are number of craft brewers in the region, 45th Parallel is the only still I know of. Paul, Scott, and I talk about the …
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Left in Leipzig
“A wall calendar showed August 1988 and an empty bottle of Vita Cola, Marella margarine, Juwel cigarettes and a bottle of Kristall vodka were in the kitchen.” Reminds me of an art installation I saw during my time in Germany. Imagine a room. With a single, wall-sized, framed painting leaning against the wall. Hanging tools …
After a couple very rough weeks – I’m happy with where Cullect and it’s caching
After a couple very rough weeks – I’m happy with where Cullect and it’s caching strategy is. It’s slightly different from where I talked about last. I’ve also added a slave DB to the mix since my last write up. Overall, it feels more solid, and is performing at or better than before
There are 1,630 results in Amazon’s book search for ‘podcasting’
There are 1,630 results in Amazon’s book search for ‘podcasting’, 11,301 for ‘twitter’. Feels bubbly.
First Crack 116. Garrick Talks About the Legends of Paul Bunyan
It’s a new year, with a new president. An ideal time to clear the ground for a new America. To start the chopping, Garrick reviews Legends of Paul Bunyan by Harold W. Felton touching on a boyhood trip to Paul Bunyan Land and the story of Sport the Reversible Dog. [9 min].
First Crack 115. Chad Gillard on Aebleskivers
Chad Gillard lives a few houses down from me – and little did I know that his side project is making and selling tasty, tasty Danish apple treats under the Aunt Else’s Organic Aebleskiver brand (Aunt Elsies on Twitter) It started with a goal so many Minnesotans have: sell food at the Minnesota State Fair. …
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How To Cache Highly Dynamic Data in Rails with Memcache – Part 2
In my part 1, I laid out my initial approach on caching in Cullect. It had some obvious deficiencies; This approach really only sped up the latest 20 (or so items). Fine if those items don’t change frequently (i.e. /important vs /latest) or you only want the first 20 items (not the second 20), The …
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