Monthly Archives: August 2009

WordPress Scalability Tip

By Robert Fischer | Published: August 5, 2009

The excellent XML Sitemap plugin integrates with the excellent Popularity Contest plugin, but don’t use that integration: during a storm of activity, the XML Sitemap plugin will decide that the change in popularity ratings requires it to rebuild the sitemap over and over and over again, which translates into hundreds of megabytes of memory being [...]

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Open Letter to Burt Beckwith

By Robert Fischer | Published: August 4, 2009

Burt Beckwith, one of the major contributors to the Groovy/Grails community, posted a rather serious critique to my Dear User of My Open Source Project post. It’s definitely worth a read. Since he’s apparently not even deigning to link to the post or call me out by name, I figured I would post a response here instead of there.

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My Stuff in August GroovyMag and Grails Podcast #91

By Robert Fischer | Published: August 4, 2009

I’ve got an article in this month’s GroovyMag: the last half of my article on Grails logging. It gets into p6spy and Sublog, along with a couple of clarifications that arose after the first half of my article. It ends with a tour of a production logging file (to demonstrate a couple standard stunts I [...]

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Speaking at AgileRX (Washington, DC)

By Robert Fischer | Published: August 3, 2009

If you’re in the Washington, DC area, you can catch me presenting Agile Practices Review: A Tactics Retrospective on September 10th and 11th at AgileRX. The event is run with RubyRX, and the speakers being pulled are downright awesome. The speakers that are/should be familiar to any Ruby and/or Agile workplace include Matt Bass, Brian [...]

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