Monthly Archives: March 2008

Ruby on Rails: errors when launching threads from a controller

Posted on March 19, 2008 by James Murty

While writing a proof-of-concept Ruby on Rails application (Ruby 1.8.6, Rails 2.0.2) I was stumped by an intermittent problem where long-lived processes would fail with the error message: <ArgumentError: A copy of TransactionController has been removed from the module tree … Continue reading →

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Gmail bug? Conversation labels do not apply to new messages

Posted on March 13, 2008 by James Murty

Gmail has a nasty bug (or quirk) that I have only just discovered. It explains why I sometimes have trouble searching for specific emails in my archive. To use Gmail effectively you will need to know about this bug, and … Continue reading →

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Fearing uncertainty and doubt

Posted on March 5, 2008 by James Murty

In my time at University I was fortunate enough to be able to study Philosophy. And I mean properly study it; I finished a major, completed and enjoyed an honours year, and considered doing a PhD. Ultimately I decided against … Continue reading →

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An introduction to Amazon's infrastructure services

Posted on March 4, 2008 by James Murty

Here is a video interview with Jeff Barr from Amazon.com talking about the AWS infrastructure services – Amazon’s Challenge to Business: Turn Off Your Datacenter. The video gives an introduction to the services, followed by some in-depth technical discussion. If … Continue reading →

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