Category Archives: code

PRX can do what now?

April 7, 2011 – 4:20 am
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My first Rails patch

May 17, 2007 – 12:56 am

…it’s small, but found a bug in the new filter code in the ActionController for rails edge.
Showed up using habtm with ActiveScaffold – go figure.
Lesson learned – Array.insert should probably be named Array.insert! – it changes the underlying array, and sometimes that’s not what you mean to do.
http://dev.rubyonrails.org/ticket/8383
Now we’ll see if it gets committed.

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Trying Amazon EC2 – waiting impatiently

May 9, 2007 – 4:04 am

We use Amazon S3 at PRX for images and more importantly all our audio files. We love it.
What we really want to do is use EC2 – look at the gigavox success story on amazon’s site – we need almost the same things, and want to implement almost the same arch – except using [...]

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Comatose Extensions

May 2, 2007 – 2:39 am

comatose is a lovely terse cms that you can integrate into a web application – unlike other rails cms systems which are the application. Thing is, terse is great until you need something it does not do.
At PRX we wanted to be able to upload/resize/attach images and files, have a preview mode [...]

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PRX uses ActiveMessaging

March 10, 2007 – 6:49 am

I just wrote up a post for the PRX blog about how we are using Amazon S3 and ActiveMessaging.
Have a look, there’s also a very short prez I gave at the IMA 2007 Conference showing how we use S3, ActiveMq, Rails, ActiveMessaging and other junk like that to make our systems hum.
Here it is again:

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