Month: March 2008

EDIT: The latest workling on github has all of the changes described here. There is no need to download my patch anymore. See github.In my previous post, I briefly described how simple it is to add background processing to your RoR app with Starling and the Workling plugin. Now, let’s discuss the changes I made…

At Inquisix, we help sales professionals exchange trusted referrals. To do that requires several background tasks, some that could take 10-15 minutes to process. Obviously, I can’t make a client wait for that, so I needed a system that could handle background tasks. At first, I started with backgroundrb, and it worked just fine. Backgroundrb…

F-117 stealth fighters to make final flight no one will know about – Engadget It’s the final flight of the F-117. It’s not exactly the prettiest aircraft in the world, but it sure broke new ground. At first, I was surprised, but I didn’t realize there we so few of them left. Then it makes…

CeBIT 2008: Vodafone demos “Otello” visual search Now this is interesting, and it sure would save a lot of typing. Now, the engineer in me marvels at how you could actually pull this off. The data requirements to do this kind of pattern matching is staggering. I suspect it will be a while before it…