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donwbon Majority of AWS us-east-1 down/having issues, Heroku included

....and now Dynamo has gone to full-blown "RED" status on the AWS status page. :sigh:

donwbon Majority of AWS us-east-1 down/having issues, Heroku included

Same here... PagerDuty started blowing up a little while ago only to discover we're seeing issues in SQS and Dynamo (plus ASG).. Damnit

donwbon Graham’s Guide to Learning Scala

Thanks! will do.

donwbon Graham’s Guide to Learning Scala

More of an academic exercise, just to further my understanding of other languages/frameworks (I'm looking into Play! also)

donwbon Graham’s Guide to Learning Scala

Perfect timing! Learning Scala is exactly what I'm doing over the long weekend.. Great post!

donwbon Modeling real life actions for FB's Open Graph

It works for me b/c the bulk of my "friends" on facebook are also devs, so they get it. Plus, while GitHub does have a newsfeed, it's always an overload of information.. I think this makes it easier to keep up with friends coding activity.

I assume my non-developer friends don't understand it, so they just ignore it.

donwbon Geekli.st gets $600k to build a place for geeks to get noticed.

Well deserved! Good to see a solid idea get funded..

donwbon David Chelimsky on rake 0.9 and gem version constraints

Great article.. really helps you understand the magic that happens when you type 'bundle install'