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Monthly Archives: May 2007

Phone companies are their own worst enemies

May 29, 2007 – 3:39 pm

Is it just me, or is every single phone company in the world a huge pain to deal with?
A few months ago I had a Frontier phone number ported over to Packet8’s VoIP service. Everything went perfectly. Almost. Since then, anyone in the world who is using any carrier other than Frontier gets routed to [...]

By bkocik | Posted in Personal | Comments (1)

Scaling Rails with a JVM

May 27, 2007 – 7:00 am

I love Rails. I really do. Developing with Rails is a pleasure, and it enables one to get a project out the door very very quickly. But when it comes to running in production, we all know that Rails presents significant scaling challenges.
Java, on the other hand, is almost the opposite. Developing an app in [...]

By bkocik | Posted in Java, Ruby and Rails | Comments (2)