I’m going to be away for the next three days

If you see Reuben around, tell him to slow down!

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We’ll go into this more later in the book, but other consumers are often the most useful guides because their incentives are best aligned with your own.

• Grab the nearest book.
• Open it to page 56.
• Find the fifth sentence.
• Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
• Don’t dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.

Finally, it’s out! During SHiFT08, me and Hugo Reis decided to get into the alt.prt.sc bandwagon, and create our own show called FRAK!

Being a big fan of Internet TV (consuming almost 5Gb of Revision 3 per week), I fell in love with this kind of indie production. And with this “new media” thing, it’s very easy to offer useful content to a huge geek crowd, even with a small budget.

So episode 0 is an experiment. We just present the show, talk about our objectives, and scratch the surface on some geek tech stories.

Sorry English readers, all the content of the FRAK Show will be in Portuguese only.

We decided to leak episode 0 to get some feedback about our potential viewers, and to see if it would be worth to shoot the next real episode. So far, we received a lot of thumbs up (apart from some minor corrections :)), which made us very excited to take the next step on the show. t There are a lot of stuff on our TODO list, including getting a generic, work on technical problems with editing, a website/blog, RSS/iTunes/Miro feeds, and some support for viewer’s feedback. For now, just keep watching my blog or follow me on twitter.

In the meantime, I would really like to thank Pedro Aniceto for allowing us to use the awesome TBStore auditorium, the guys from alt.prt.sc for the support and logistical help, and Nuno Loureiro for the hard video editing work.

Take a screenshot of your desktop right now, don’t change anything, post it on your blog!

Ever since the beginning, Phusion Passenger (aka, mod_rails) impressed me. I still can’t believe how such a small team managed to build a simple solution to this complex problem that is Ruby on Rails deployment.

I’ve heard in the past about the Passenger benefits. When I first tried it, the only thing I kept thinking was “this is exactly like PHP! this is exactly like PHP!”…

Moreover, using Passenger and Apache, you can get much better resource management, since it starts and stops instances based on the load of the website.

I think enough time has passed since the public release of Passenger. Since I’m still running this Rails blog on a Via C3 @ 533Mhz, I decided to replace my previous setup (lighttpd proxying to a mongrel instance, monitored by monit) to a new Apache2 + Passenger.