Last week I showed how to profile a Rails application using ruby-prof The post was driven by our desire to improve MapBuzz's map rendering speed Our nightly log analysis showed...

While analyzing Rails performance, I stumbled upon the fact that parsing timestamps in ActiveRecord is very slow (I'll post more about that in an upcoming blog) A bit of...

Peter and Tim have been blogging about one of the least undestood parts of REST - how state is handled Tim puts it nicely: The essence of REST is to make the states of the...

Being the local IT expert, I periodically update Yue's WordPress blog I have to say WordPress just keeps getting better and better - the latest release lets you create and modify...

Chris Tweedie posted an interesting reply to my rant about GIS standards and took me to task for "WMS bashing" and why WMS is a useful Enterprise standard Perhaps - except I...

Yesterday I mentioned that ruby-prof now supports profiling rails applications Lets see how that works But a word of caution before beginning Like all web applications, Rails...

Make sure to grab the latest version of ruby-prof, currently 052, which includes some performance tweaks and bug fixes A year has passed since the last release of ruby-prof If...

Some of my recent posts could be interpreted as veiled critisism of the Open Geopspatial Consortium (OGC) But in truth, I've been very impressed how OGC has reinvented itself...

Let's face facts - the stable of GIS Web standards is suboptimal To show you what I mean, let's think about the common things you'd want to do with web mapping and see if...

Last week Landon Blake vented his frustration at the Open Geospatial Consurtium by claiming that poorly designed standards create obstacles to innovation and collaboration This...