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  1. PostgreSQL Conf East

    This following week, PostgreSQL Conf East will take place in New York City....

    Harold Giménez
    March 15, 2011
    • News
    • Web
    • PostgreSQL
  2. Hoptoad, the Cloud, and the Pond Ahead

    How we’re making Hoptoad scale by using MongoDB.

    Harold Giménez
    March 9, 2011
    • Web
    • Airbrake
    • Performance
    • Rails
  3. PostgreSQL Performance Considerations

    Know the Postgres index types such as multicolumn indexes and partial indexes, don’t over-index, use more joins, prefer INNER JOINs, understand the EXPLAIN output, and don’t try to optimize on your development machine.

    Harold Giménez
    January 7, 2011
    • Web
    • PostgreSQL
    • Performance
  4. Let it REST

    You are building a boring blog application. A blog has many comments. Your...

    Harold Giménez
    December 22, 2010
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    • Good Code
    • Rails
  5. Keep your privates close

    A problem with the way we declare private methods in Ruby is the fact that...

    Harold Giménez
    November 30, 2010
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    • Ruby
    • Good Code
  6. mongoBoston conference coming soon

    This upcoming Monday, September 20th is the Mongo Boston conference at the...

    Harold Giménez
    August 26, 2010
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    • Web
  7. Suspenders now with RSpec, jQuery, and more

    Suspenders is a Rails project template used as a base app for all of our...

    Harold Giménez
    August 6, 2010
    • News
    • Web
    • Open Source
    • Suspenders
  8. Suspenders now with RSpec, jQuery, and more

    Suspenders is a Rails project template used as a base app for all of our...

    Harold Giménez
    July 13, 2010
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    • Suspenders
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