Monthly Archives: September 2009
Google Wave
Looks like I got in! If anyone needs an invite, let me know.
Yahoo Search Index Speed
I submitted this blog to Yahoo a while ago. Why? It was more of a test of how fast they spider sites rather than an attempt to drive traffic. After the submission, they stated: Thank you! Your URL has been … Continue reading
Google Updated Their Homepage
It looks like Google updated their home page with minor styling changes on the search box and the buttons below: Before: After:
How to handle security issues
Brian Mastenbrook wrote a great article on the right and wrong way to handle security issues: Brian Mastenbrook: How I cross-site scripted Twitter in 15 minutes, and why you shouldn’t store important data on 37signals’ applications Looks like this was … Continue reading
Screencast Settings
We have been creating screencasts for our newly launched product Community Insights for demo and tutorial purposes. A few people have asked how we achieved such a high quality screencast with such a low file size. During this post I … Continue reading
QuickTime X is not QuickTime Pro
Despite the numerous rumors (here, here, here, and here) about Snow Leopard shipping with a version of QuickTime that included the Pro features, I can sadly say, it does not. Not even close. The power of the Pro features was … Continue reading
Google Apps SLA
Today we received notice from Google that we would be receiving credit for the loss of service earlier in the week. Between 12:45 PM to 2:15 PM PDT | 19:45 – 21:15 GMT on Tuesday, September 1, 2009, Google Apps … Continue reading
Update: Fixing Rails in Snow Leopard
I was too quick to declare success in my update to Snow Leopard earlier this week. As it turns out, much of my recovered space came from Xcode being uninstalled. Easy fix. Grabbed the DVD and installed it in a … Continue reading
Capistrano is Fixed in Snow Leopard
There were a number of things that seemed to break with the upgrade to Snow Leopard. The latest is my ability to deploy Rails application using Capistrano. For some reason, the SSH connection would hang. Looks like this was fixed … Continue reading
Snow Leopard Upgrade
I upgraded from Leopard to Snow Leopard without much issue. As expected, the installation was quick and painless. Apple advertised the install would use 6GB less space than Leopard. Much to my surprise, the install freed up 45Gb of space. … Continue reading
