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It feels good to see your name in print

by Mike ManginoOct.22.2008

It was almost a full year ago that I started writing a book on Facebook development. This past Friday I got a very exciting box. Unboxing pictures inside.

Preloading summary data using ActiveRecord

by Mike ManginoOct.08.2008

It seems like every application we build has at least one screen that needs to access a lot of data. For example, if we were building a web application for a school we would likely have a page for teachers that shows all of their students including their current grage, number of assignments turned in on time and attendance. Inside, we'll look at how we can make this type of page run quickly without adding much complexity.

Developing Facebook Platform Applications with Rails is done!

by Mike ManginoSep.25.2008

I've been busy recently, as you may have guessed from the lack of posts. It's time to share the items I've been working on!

Painless monitoring with Scout

by Mike ManginoAug.06.2008

I write about monitoring from time to time. We host about 15 applications for our clients, so monitoring our servers is a high priority for us. We've experimented with a large number of tools including monit and god. Both work great as process monitors, but they aren't built for some of our most important tasks. Enter Scout. In less then a week I've been able to port all of our ad-hoc monitors to Scout. See inside for more information.