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"Welcome to London,” someone in the office said today. That got a laugh. “Welcome to the managerial classes." I always enjoy MJH's blog, and especially his microfiction; this is a good one.
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"Devise Async provides an easy way to configure Devise to send its emails asynchronously using your preferred queuing backend." Jolly good.
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A Redis-based queueing system for ruby; much more efficient than Resque, from the looks of things, and really nice deployment configuration (ie: someone's bothered to write cap recipes and similar). Definitely going into the toolbelt, I think.
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"Delayed_job (or DJ) encapsulates the common pattern of asynchronously executing longer tasks in the background." Extracted from Shopify, and looks very, very useful; filed away for another day.
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"Marketing is a strategic function about delivering customers what they want. It isn’t a jazz hands and rubber chicken and t-shirts. It is the heart of successful companies…"
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A few notes on Flickr's queueing systems.
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Cultured Code do a large behind-the-scenes look at how they designed their Things iPhone UI. Lots of detail, lots of working shown. Even if you don't agree with the choices they made, it's excellent to see somebody sharing at this level of detail.