Setup Performance Monitoring with New Relic

On June 18, 2010 By Tyler

Today I posted the first screencast in Engine Yard’s AppCloud Screencast series on how to Setup Performance Monitoring with New Relic RPM on AppCloud.

It was a lot of fun putting this together as it brought together my skills in audio/video that I’ve not used in quite a while and I still enjoy.  I’m quite [...]

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Ruby Heroes 2010 Video

On June 14, 2010 By Tyler

Ruby Heroes 2010 from Tyler Bird on Vimeo.

After Yehuda’s keynote Tuesday night at RailsConf the Ruby Hero awards were presented by Gregg Pollack and Nathaniel Bibler from Envy Labs.

The Ruby Hero awards was created in 2008 to highlight people in the Ruby community who have [...]

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Quality over Quantity

On June 12, 2010 By Tyler

So last year I thought that writing online, on a daily basis, would be a way to make this blog a better thing. But it’s just another way to fail. And fail publicly.

Well working with my therapist, I’ve learned to try and correct my valuation of outcome versus progress.

When you value outcome only, [...]

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