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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Screencasting

On May 13, 2009 By Tyler

I’ve consistently been facinated with the content and quality of Geoffrey Grosenbach’s peepcode screencasts.

And now I’ve finished watching his screencast on how to make your own screencasts I’m still impressed. The difference is that now I want to make my own sceencasts.

So I’ll be working on this and some future posts will [...]

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Road Trip Eve – RailsConf 2009 Las Vegas, NV

On May 2, 2009 By Tyler

Tomorrow I’ll be driving down to Las Vegas for the 2009 RailsConf.

I’m looking forward to more opportunities to evangelize Solo to the masses. Also, it will be great to get together with other Engine Yard peeps and put the name, voice, IRC nick, etc… to the face.

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