The document discusses a social network for software users, highlighting its popularity with over 6,000 users in the first month and 9.4 million hours of software usage. It emphasizes the tools and practices used in software development, including the importance of caching and the deployment process. The tone is informal and humorous, reflecting the authors' experiences and frustrations as self-identified 'helpless geeks.'

1. Robert Gaal

3. “What do you use?” Social network for software

4. How? Install a tracker Check out your profile Share your experiences Get updated Discover new things -> Go to 2

6. So...? Over 6.000 users the first month 9.4 million hours of software usage Digged, TechCrunched, newspapered, etc. Nominated for Businessweek’s Europe's Young Entrepreneurs 2007 Our moms like it (because it’s ours) Our friends love it (because they’re nerds)

7. RubyOnRails “The geek equivalent of writing poetry”

9. No guarantees! We’re helpless geeks, but we’re not perfect

10. ... that’s why we have Bradley Rails Machine = developer nirvana

11. Staging (the sandbox / kitchen) Database (the pwner) Production (the butler) Three musketeers

12. Textmate & E Greatest. Tools. Ever.

13. SVN, Capistrano & Trac The holy trinity of deployment and maintenance

14. Pingdom, Mailroom & Clicky A webapp a day, keeps the pain away

15. Caching, caching, caching :expire for the win!

16. Request queue Don’t choke Mongrel (even if you want to)

17. Asset packager Squish it baby

18. Image server Don’t bother Mongrel with the statics

19. Slow query log Check them indexes and bypass ActiveRecord

20. When all fails:

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