Sean Beckett's blog


Standup 07/16/2008

edit Posted by Sean Beckett on Wednesday July 16, 2008 at 04:49PM

Interesting Things

  • It's always a good idea to test your backup and recovery strategy, but while doing so one team of Pivots found that restoring MySQL was more painful than they had expected. Restoring the backup to the master database and then replaying the binary logs to the right point but no further took a lot of manual attention and time. Is there a utility to ease the pain of restoring MySQL from backup?

Standup 07/15/2008

edit Posted by Sean Beckett on Tuesday July 15, 2008 at 04:33PM

Interesting Things

  • If using Desert and Rails 2.1, if the first view loaded is from a plugin things blow up.

Ask for Help

"How can I make follow_redirect go to a URL?"

When using a follow_redirect to a URL instead of a hash, the test fails with a string conversion exception. No solutions were forthcoming.

Standup 07/14/2008

edit Posted by Sean Beckett on Monday July 14, 2008 at 05:26PM

Interesting Things

  • Congratulations to Engine Yard on closing $15M Series B financing!
  • After a catastrophic HDD failure, one Pivot found 1password on his iPhone to be invaluable in restoring all his login credentials.