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
Author Archives: Garrick van Buren
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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Cullect and Why I Built It – UPA-MN Feb 12 ’09 6-8pm @ Open Book
(cross posted @ MNteractive.com & blog.cullect.com) I’ll be talking about how and why I built Cullect.com, Feburary 12th UPA-MN event at the Open Book, 6-8pm (Feels good to be back at the UPA-MN, it’s been too long.) The agenda: Developing a product you will use and the way you will use it. Designing the API …
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“My Baby’s Only Known Recession”
Mark Zandi, author of the Financial Shock, the best book on how we got into this economic mess is now covering the proposals to get us out. Quick context setting: “Every dollar decline in household net worth reduces consumer spending by 5 cents over the next two years. If sustained, the wealth lost over the …
Rank and File Media
Just a few moments ago, I published my 114th First Crack Podcast. I get the greatest sense of accomplishment and satisfaction out of that process (conducting an interview, editing, publishing). It got me to thinking of the other electronic publishing I regularly do, and how they rank in sense of accomplishment/satisfaction Podcasts Software Skype calls …
First Crack 114. Kurt Schmidt on Old School BMX Freestyle
Twenty years ago, while BMX freestyle was a favorite hobby of mind, Kurt Schmidt rode for Haro Bikes. Then he co-founded the infamous Standard Bike Manufacturing. He retells the story of: breaking his ribs on his first big pro contest stalking photographers to get in magazines Rad – starring Bill Allen starting a high-end BMX …
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Mac Audio Tip: Garage Band imports at 44kHz. If your audio is 48kHz, import it t
Mac Audio Tip: Garage Band imports at 44kHz. If your audio is 48kHz, import it to iTunes, and use iTunes adv Mac Audio Tip: Garage Band imports at 44kHz. If your audio is 48kHz, import it to iTunes, and use iTunes advanced import settings to convert the audio to 44kHz. Then, put the converted audio …
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