SugarStats.com Redesign and New Features Rollout
Posted on April 30, 2007
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I’ve been pretty busy the last 2 months. The feedback from BETA testers for SugarStats has been amazing, the reception has been great as well. Over the past few months we’ve been able to execute a complete redesign and added some really cool features, thanks to Rails it has been a joy.
To give a small list of major changes:
- Sugar Reading Meter Uploads – For OneTouch devices with data exports via OneTouch Diabetes Management Software 2.3 or above in .CSV format.
- Sugar Reading Input via Email – For better and easier input, even on the go.
- Complete UI Redesign – Streamlined the interface and consolidated statistics information for easier viewing.
- Sidebar Sugar Input – Easily add sugar readings from outside the day view.
- Sidebar Quick Averages – Quickly see your 7 and 30 day sugar averages from any page within SugarStats.
- Streamlined Food Management – We’ve redesigned how you track food to make it easier to select and manage your food list.
- Re-designed Trends – Easier to read and presented everywhere you need them.
- Sugar Trends Multi-day View – View timeframe stats and see the trend statistics per day.
- Sugar Reading Only View – View timeframe info and see only your sugar readings, great for print-outs for the doctor.
- Greatly Enhanced Printing – Via print stylesheets, you get clean and clear printable pages.
Still quite a bit to do, but the good thing is all the major things are done. May is about focusing on finishing off the polish and payment system to have a public launch hopefully in June.
We’ve pushed the new revision out to all the current BETA testers. We will send an invite to create an account to the hundreds of people who have requested one over the past few months in the coming days.
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Posted on April 30, 2007
Filed Under Business, CSS/XHTML, Daily Thoughts, Design, Hosting, Mobile Tech, PHP/MySQL, Productivity, Ruby on Rails, SEO, Startup, SugarStats, Tech, Web
RAID 1 Failures
Posted on April 30, 2007
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Ironic. The same time I”m reviewing online backup solutions my OS X software RAID 1 set for my 2 external firewire drives goes to all hell and gets uber corrupted.
Luckily I was able to extract the data with Data Rescue II for OS X even though I wasn’t able to mount the drives. Pretty stupid, but funny since I”m always telling people not to rely on RAID 1 alone as it is not a backup solution but a hardware failure solution. I had originally used BingoDisk as my online backup but as it turns out, the speed from this side of the planet pretty much makes backup up 250GB of data online a joke. Mozy.com to the rescue.
So now I’ve come up with a new, 3-tier backup solution that is actually quite simple, cost effective and easy to setup. More on that in the next post.
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Posted on April 30, 2007
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Geek Humor: Magnetic Thoughtfulness
Posted on April 18, 2007
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Hahahahha:
http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/hprajani/phun/disk.jpg
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Posted on April 18, 2007
Filed Under Apple, Art & Design, Daily Thoughts, Entertainment, General, Hardware, Mobile Tech, Quotes, Ranting, Tech, Travel
Mail Plane App = Google Mail + Mail.app?
Posted on April 16, 2007
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This is totally sweet, I must say. MailPlaneApp and it is exactly what I’ve (and many others I’m sure) have been looking for.
It is basically Mail.app for Google Mail. I used to be a big user of Apple mail but have now switched completely to my Google. Now it seems I can get the google love straight from my desktop. Though I would love to see this same app used with something like Apollo or Slingshot.
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Posted on April 16, 2007
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Rails Multi-DB Connection Pool Management Goodness
Posted on April 14, 2007
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UPDATE: It seems another option has come up, I’ve found this acts_as_with_readonly plugin which hooks into AR so you can then have AR read from a pool of slaves. http://revolutiononrails.blogspot.com/
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So i’m sitting here in a internet cafe, enjoying my vacationing on the French Riviera and saw the great news in my feedreader. Rails DB connection pooling at last!
Oh yes, it seems a solution has finally arrived for accessing multiple databases in Rails.
Dr. Nic has posted an article detailing it. It requires the magic_multi_connections gem and a few modifications to your environment.rb file. You can then specify clones to connect to and distribute load on the database backend.
The best part is its simplicity and transparency of it all. To read from a pool of databases it will essentially look something like this:
class PeopleController < ApplicationController
def index
@people = conn::Person.find(:all)
end
end
The magic is in the conn:: method which in the background selects a clone at random. Though I do think maybe in the future there will be a more intelligent form of load-balancing and database selection.
It is not limited to just reading off clones, you can set all writes to go to just the master, but reading from all database servers can be setup as well. You can also customize the setup to fit your environment, for example if you did table segmentation for users (A-E on database1, E-M on database2 etc).
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Posted on April 14, 2007
Filed Under Analytics, Business, Daily Thoughts, Design, Productivity, Ranting, Ruby on Rails, Tech, Web
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