January 2009
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Launch! Sketchup for Woodworkers.com
For the past year and a half now I’ve taken up woodworking as a pretty serious hobby. I’m currently enrolled in my second woodworking class at Palomar College and a major part of the class will be designing our own project from scratch. Using Google Sketchup is an option but not many of the students know it (and I don’t envy someone using a 3D software package for the first time). I’ve been using...
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Cache anything (easily) with Rails and memcached
Update 6/9/2010 – A similar mechanism was made available in Rails 2.1 using Rails.cache. See Railscast #115 for an introduction.
When I first heard about memcached I was excited because of the promise of a very fast caching mechanism that could store anything, but was a little frightened by the idea of dipping my toes into the caching world. Isn’t caching hard? Not the actual process of storing...