Tag Archives: Optimisation

Implications of the Amazon CloudFront default root object

Posted on August 7, 2010 by Andrew

Amazon recently announced that their CloudFront service now supports serving of an arbitrary object at the root URL of a CloudFront domain. This means that Amazon S3 users can now host entire static sites using only S3 and CloudFront.

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Optimising specs for ActiveRecord scopes and other database-dependent functionality

Posted on July 22, 2010 by Andrew

After recently switching to a lower-performance laptop for my regular development tasks, I decided to spend a bit of time cleaning up some long-running rspec examples. I found that some misunderstanding of rspec’s features had led me to write highly … Continue reading →

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