Mandarin Soda

Interesting post from the High Performace Web Sites Blogs. Perhaps not surprisingly, efficient page serving is good for your users and our environment.

Doing an install on a VPS (or elsewhere), getting funky soul-sucking ruby inline permission messages in your Mongrel logs and feeling extraordinarily frustrated, dumb or both?
Google to the rescue!
This post and this post kept me sane. After installing freeimage and image science, create a .ruby_inline directory inside your tmp directory with the same permissions [...]

Interesting news for OpenID usage

If you’re using anything other than fragment caching on pages with forms (and your fragment caching runs after your form blocks), then you’ll likely see Rails freakout on on the 2nd user that submits your cached form. The authenticity_token from the prior user has been cached and Rails is protecting you (I think). So, [...]

If you’re working with a design team that uses the same CSS id and class selector names across multiple CSS files, if you run asset packaging (cache = ‘true’), you’ll bundle all of the CSS files together and your site will probably berserk on you - a fun way to torture your designers who don’t [...]

Enjoy the Holidays with a new 1.9 Dev Release.
Apparently Mongrel and Rails are fairly close to being compatible….
Nice overview here.
Update. PragDave has some rather pragmatic advice for approaching the 1.9 development release. And yes, the last time I looked at my first year college compositions, I noticed more than a few tautologies. [...]

Alex Russell discussing why the W3C cannot save us:
To get a better future, not only do we need a return to “the browser wars”, we need to applaud and use the hell out of “non-standard” features until such time as there’s a standard to cover equivalent functionality. Non-standard features are the future, and suggesting that [...]

So, you have your nifty new Rails 2.0 site up and running on a cluster of Mongrels proxied by Nginx and decide that you want to add a sub-domain to your slice to host a blog describing what your site does, since its “Web 2.0″ name doesn’t make a lick of sense.
First you set up [...]

24 Ways to impress your friends, assuming they’re web design dorks of one form or another. And I mean that in a good way.
Happy Holidays!.