Since finishing The Passionate Programmer I’ve been putting a lot of thought into how to package the advice from the book into something more structured, serial, and prescriptive.

The Amazon reviews for the book are almost all glowingly positive with the occasional piece of constructive criticism. Here’s one such excerpt from an otherwise positive review by Ira Laefksy which I agreed with and took to heart:

A cross site scripting vulnerability in Rails was publicly reported yesterday that affects everyone running Rails 2.x on versions of Ruby before 1.9. The vulnerability occurs in the escaping code for form helpers in Ruby on Rails. Attackers who can inject deliberately malformed Unicode strings into the form helpers can defeat the escaping checks and inject arbitrary HTML.

I’m probably a bit late to the party with this article, but I’m a bit of a chicken so I thought I’d wait for the dust to settle a bit before installing Snow Leopard on the MacBook Pro I use for Ruby development.

For the past month I have been working with

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Today, I’m pleased to announce the launch of our new Load Balancing service - which enables customers to distribute requests across multiple Brightbox virtual machines with ease.

It’s always been possible to create virtual load balancers from standard Brightboxes, but our new service now provides a simpler, more reliable and cost effective solution.

Episode 79. We mess up a lot but it's funny.

There are lots of resources on the web that explain how to scale web applications and how to scale Rails. Here’s a quick summary of just five of the basic strategies for a scalable Ruby on Rails web application. Some of them are specific to Ruby on Rails; others generalize to any shared-nothing application server architecture.