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Why your first deploy should be on Heroku

by Michiel on March 29, 2010

I started using Heroku three weeks ago since @_micho from teambox.com recommended it to me. He told me they had a free app tier with some basic functionality and you can upgrade if you need more power or other functionality. I’ve been testing it for deploying several development and staging apps the last two weeks and [...]

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Scrum in Firmhouse walktrough

by Michiel on February 6, 2010

I just wanted to share with you this presentation I created yesterday to communicate to other people and ourselves on how we use Scrum in Firmhouse. This is a first set of tools I’m creating for ourselves to get going with Scrum to create our products. But it can be a good piece of information [...]

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How to Add Some Security with a Self-Signed SSL Certificate to Your Rails App Served by Nginx

by Michiel on January 2, 2010

At Firmhouse, we are working on a new web service and we’re releasing an in-development demo to everyone who is interested. Normally, in demo apps security is less the case and there is always some disclaimer that says you shouldn’t use real production data like passwords and API keys. In my opinion, this sucks because [...]

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Installing Beanstalkd queing daemon on Mac OS X

by Michiel on August 28, 2009

Beanstalkd is a queueing deamon that let’s you queue messages from one client and let them be processed by another client. It has features like burrying messages for later usage if the command at the first time can’t be executed and more stuff like that. We use it for queuing things in Ruby on Rails [...]

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