The more I learn, the less I know.
Scott
Scott Swezey is a jack of all trades tech blogger. He regularly posts information related to MMO games such as Final Fantasy XIV and small business topics such as marketing, and business development. Scott also dabbles with PHP and Ruby on Rails web development.
Homepage: http://www.scottswezey.com/about/
Posts by Scott
Trying out the P2 theme… background op…
Sep 1st
Trying out the P2 theme… background options seem ugly, but not bad other than that.
INEBRIATION (Inception Parody/Spoof)
Aug 21st
or watch on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsZ1SagUPb4
Details FFXIV Info
Aug 6th
I just got a tip that any dedicated FFXIV fans might want to check this/these site/pages out:
http://www.ffxivstrawhats.com/jobs/
http://www.ffxivstrawhats.com/info/
http://ffxivstrawhats.com/forums/forum/13-in-game/
Dealing with Heroku startup lag
Jul 25th
So, if you haven’t tried Heroku yet, you really should. It has got to be the most awesome way to deploy and manage a rails app that I have ever seen. But this article isn’t another Heroku review, instead it is my attempt at getting around one minor pitfall with Heroku.
The problem? If you’re site doesn’t get much traffic, and you are on the free “1 dyno” plan, your dyno’s (rails processes) tend to go offline. This means your next visitor sees your page load for a few seconds before they see anything. It’s not terrible, but I wouldn’t call it ideal, either.
But I think I have found a simple solution to ease the “pain” of this “problem.” (Sarcasm intended): Heroku serves static files from varnish… no delay on those while we wait for the rails app to start.
So what’s happening? Someone comes along to www . my cool site . com, but there are no active dyno’s. As expected, they get sent to index.html, which fires off an AJAX request to the rails app. As soon as it gets a successful result, it redirects the user to the /home path within my rails site. Assuming there are active dyno’s, this all happens very quickly. If the dyno’s are off, a loading message fades in and a few seconds later they get redirect.
I know it isn’t perfect… but it should work until my site gets busier and I can pay for more dyno’s.
Would a reasonable individual believe that everything I post is fact and none of it is my personal opinion?
Jul 24th
So it seems that on my own personal blog I’m not allowed to voice my opinions should somebody else disagree with them. While I find it odd that somebody would think that a large portion of what I write on my personal blog is not merely my personal opinion on whatever I’m writing about…. I’d really like to hear from you!
Do look over some of my posts here (there’s what? 22 of them as of this writing) and let me know what you think! Do you think that a large portion of what I’ve written and posted is my opinion. Oh, and I know I get a lot of traffic [lol] so I do expect at least a few thousand comments!
Yes, that's a peak of 81 and an average of around 7 visitors per day...
FFXIV Official Specs
In case you missed it, SE Posted the specs to play FFXIV: http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/#/about/game_info
In other news, its a good time to invest in PC hardware manufacturers.
iterate through each child association of a active record class
Jun 20th
I came across this today while trying to find a better way to deal with error messages in rails. IMHO, it is genius and just what I was looking for. More >
A new perspective on the Arizona “Paper’s Please” law… Sonoran Desert outside Tucson, AZ
May 21st
[Editors Note: The following is copy/pasted from my E-Mail inbox. A friend forwarded it to me and I thought it was worth sharing, even if I detest the way Arizona is going about fixing the problem. Please spread the word!]
Subject: AZ Sonoran Desert outside Tucson, AZ
Date: Tue, 18 May 2010 19:53:02 -0700
This is sooooo awful…….and sooooo sad!
Enjoy the view!!! AZ Sonoran Desert outside Tucson, AZ
Where in the hell is the SIERRA CLUB on this???
Hey everyone out there!
The people in Arizona, know you’re boycotting us — but you really should come out here and see our Beautiful Sonoran Desert.
It’s just gorgeous right now! We know you’d love it and maybe you can share what you saw with the rest of the country so they can love it too!
This is on an ‘illegal super – highway’ from Mexico to the USA (Tucson) used by human smugglers.
This area is located in a wash, approximately 1.5 miles long, just south of Tucson, Arizona. If a flood came, all this would be washed to the river and then onto the sea!
It is estimated over 5,000 discarded backpacks are in this wash. Countless water containers, food wrappers, clothing, feces, including thousands of soiled baby diapers. And as you can see in this picture, fresh footprints leading right into it.
As we kept walking down the wash, we thought for sure it was going to end, but around every corner was more and more trash!
And of course the trail leading out of the wash in our city, heads directly NORTH to Tucson, then leads to your town tomorrow.
They’ve already come through here. Isn’t Arizona just beautiful, America?
Why would you boycott us???
Our desert has basically been turned into a landfill.
The trash left behind by people illegally crossing our border is another Environmental Disaster to hit the USA.
If these actions had been done in one of our Northwest Forests or Seashore National Parks areas, there would be an uprising of the American people…..but this is the Arizona-Mexican border.
You won’t see these pictures on CNN, ABC, NBC or the Arizona Republic Repugnant newspaper. Nor will they mention the disease that comes from the uncovered human waste left in our desert.
However, with respect to CNN, ABC & NBC, they do offer us “Special Reports” on cheating celebrity spouses….
This information needs to be seen by the rest of the country.