If you need to do some performance testing of your web app, one tool that is pretty easy to use is httperf. I recommend watching the Peepcode screencast on httperf to get some good tips on how to doing performance testing. There is also some reading...

Whether you are a Java or a Ruby programmer, I'm sure you are familiar with this idiom:
That's a simple logger where the log level is set to info, so the debug statement isn't logged, but the info statement is. One gotcha to look out for is something like this:...

As you probably already know, Rails 3 is just around the corner. There are some pretty nice features being added and one of them is the ability to customize the way the generators work. I personally prefer Haml over ERB, RSpec over Test::Unit and Factory...

Just a quick heads up that I'll be talking about Node.js at this Wednesday's Baltimore/JavaScript Users Group meeting. This will be an introductory talk but will quickly dive into some code examples with Q & A. The talk, just as node.js itself, centers...