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Archive for November, 2008

19 Nov

How many Mongrels or FastCGI processes do I need?

I’m sitting in a course on call centre design, and yesterday there was mention of Erlangs, which are a unit of measure of the volume of traffic on a telecommunications network. These Erlangs can be used to calculate how many agents a call centre needs (or, given the number of agents, what service level can [...]

17 Nov

A couple of uC hobby sites I found

Curious Inventor uC Hobby Both have some good links and projects for uC hobbiests.

03 Nov

Using Rails Models from within an external script

For some one off scripts I wanted to make use of a couple of models I created. I had no idea how simple it would be to load the rails environment from within a script: require ‘config/environment.rb’ p MyModel.find(:first) Sweet! Rails is so… thoughtful.

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