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At my company we've been using Graphite and StatsD for nearly two years now, we rely on it heavily for tracking performance and troubleshooting issues. We rely on Icinga, Pingdom, NewRelic and other tools to alert of us of problems.

Often, when things have gone really wrong (DoS, internal network issues, app errors, disk full) the affected machine(s) stop reporting to graphite (or under-report data). We get alerted by monitoring the services, not the stats.

Being alerted about low or unusual values might be helpful in some cases, but based on my experience, it would too noisy. Usually when something bad happens, we anyway investigate Graphite and analytics tools to understand the impact on traffic and KPIs.

I could see Rearview being useful for some cases, but not as a replacement for real monitoring and alerting tools.

The specs say 320x480 px screen, which is a bit disappointing.

I think the main problem with the ST2 icon is that it looks like a disk drive. I often ignore it because in my brain, I assume it's a disk and not an editor.

Focus is not just about what you choose to work on at a high level. Avoiding distractions day-to-day is a bigger part of it. Many people I have worked with complain that they want to focus on "one thing at a time", but that doesn't mean it has to be the same thing all day, every day. It means being productive, without having switch gears to deal with things that have nothing to do with their goals and tasks. To me, that's what focus really means.

If it was clear that ST2 can make your team happier, then I would expect you to gain political capital for the purchase and not lose it!

I see what you are saying, but the cards as presented don't really reference the iOS UI. Maybe I'm just too used to the web app.

Hey, thanks for the reply! I'll check out the S15.

Love this app, and it's wonderfully to finally have it on the iPad. I think they did some really smart things with the UI, for instance, being able to adjust the space used for comments/description, the navigation at the top of the card, etc. They really put a lot of thought into it.

However, two things that bothered me as a heavy Trello user:

1) I could not figure out how to move a card from one board to another. Just does not seem to be possible (yet)?

2) The drop-down in the upper right corner of a card is where I expected the close button to be, as it is for the web app. I keep tapping it over and over, expecting the card to close, but instead it shows a drop-down menu with one option: "archive"! This feels like a big UI mistake to me.

Other than that, a fantastic first release. I can't wait to walk around the office tomorrow with my iPad, tending to projects, instead of always popping open my laptop!

Interesting: they are shutting down the Blackberry app. Either the app was terrible and never used, or they see Blackberry as a dying platform.

Can I ask what laptop you got? I'm seriously thinking of coming back to Linux if I can get something that "just works".

Reading this makes me want to keep developing on a MacBook. I love Linux, but when I'm reminded of all the wasted time and hacks spent on configuring hardware and researching problems, it makes me happy to stay trapped with OSX.

You don' know what you're talking about. I lead the web team for local.ch, we have 4mil unique clients a month and handle 10k requests per minute in peak traffic. Our site is developed in Ruby on Rails, with average response times from in the 150ms range. We replaced our legacy PHP system last year and will never look back. Ruby 2.0 will be our future, and I'm happy about that.

The redesign is an improvement, but the usability is still miserable. The main nav with "solution centers" is really just sponsors. The fake download banners and links are so misleading.

These attempts to get users to click on links makes my stomach turn. Compared to Github or Google Code, SourceForge still feels so dishonest. This is open-source software they are hosting here.

Nine years ago I was a subscriber of SourceForge, because I thought they were helpful to developers and the communities around projects. I'd never consider paying them anything these days.

I also found it surprising that Adium is the most popular Financial app.

Growing infrastructure by orders of magnitude makes more sense to me, and is often how I hear the term used. I was at a conference in Berlin a few years ago and Joyent gave a talk about scaling which touched on this very topic.

The argument given was that you should plan infrastructure expansion with orders of magnitude. For example, increasing disk space from 10tb to 100tb. Or replacing a network switch with one that has 10x traffic capacity. The reasoning goes that the time spent engineering the expansion is a better investment at 10x, rather than having to increase infrastructure incrementally.

Our company has a corporate account but none of the employees want to use it for this reason. If we could make "corporate" folders and share them using the same account, but not lose the storage credit, that would rock.

I don't see the value in this service since markup conversion is built in to so many free libraries and services. What is the use case for this and who needs such as service?

I don't see why so many people think of typography and color as central to UX/UI. I believe these are just as small part of the puzzle. Great interfaces are not just nice to look at - they communicate well. For me, great UX/UI is about the use of clear, consistent visual metaphors. It's about choosing the right words in your navigation, picking the best controls and form elements, and about removing anything that distracts or confuses the user. It's also about listening to your customers and understanding how they use your software.

I think Term::ANSIColor has become the standard for Ruby, it's included by Capistrano and other popular gems now: https://github.com/flori/term-ansicolor - defunkt's gem has not been touched in 3 years.

> History will remember the entire Ruby industry as a series of compounding failures.

This is a bit dramatic. Despite its faults, the language and community around it have been quite a success story. It's had a huge and positive influence on the web development world.

In my experience most Rails deployments and CI setups depend on Github being up. While it's possible to bundle and copy code on deploy rather than checkout from the server, most projects don't.

So of course you can continue developing locally, but if Github is down, it means the release/ci process is likely broken. I'm not saying this is Github's responsibility, but it's a reality for many people. It's another sales point for Github Enterprise.

Now would be a great time to put forward a simpler solution to 2.0 so yes please post a completed version!

Yes, read the patent. It covers a lot more than that specific case, which is why the title is vague and is exactly why governments should step in and stop this madness.

SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PREVENTING UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS TO ELECTRONIC DATA.

When are governments finally going to do something about the patent system?

This feels like a marketing fail. Kickstarter is supposed to be about helping people create things who would normally not have the resources to do so. Impressing the audience by showing off expensive luxury items (player piano, supercars, etc) does not help this cause.

They also failed to really communicate how the app changes your normal development workflow. Does it replace interface builder processes? Besides styling with CSS, how does it help in creating complex vector elements that would normally be made in Photoshop? Is it a standalone dev environment or a lot of pieces? Can you mix assets (pixel and vector)?

What's really wild is if you do CMD+d several times and then move around with the arrow keys. Multiple cursors follow you around. I'm not sure if this is useful, but it's certainly cool.

That's because he's an ape.

I was just at the Berlin Buzzwords conference last week. Microsoft Azure was a platinum sponsor, and hired two 20-something girls dressed in skin-tight silver jumpsuits. They walked around handing out bags of Gummy Bears with flyers for Azure. Nobody was impressed, and the whole idea as kind of ridiculous. Given the level of maturity at that conference, it was completely out of place. It does not surprise me there was nearly zero activity at their conference booth.

That post is an excellent read. He gets right to the heart of the biggest challenge facing the US right now. However there are no solutions put forward, a job which is unfortunately left up to the politicians.

Call me a tree-hugger, but I was hoping that recycled wood was used, and that my greedy desire for one of these would not result in rainforests being destroyed. It would be nice to know if this service was green, too.

"Zebrawood is considered a threatened species in its native habitat. Its fast-growing popularity in the West has resulted in some reforestation efforts, but these are not keeping up with the pace of harvesting." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zebrawood

This was the reason bootstrap was invented. You can choose to use parts of it to make your quick and dirty work look usable and not just thrown together.