Michael Wynholds

About Michael Wynholds

Mike is the President and CEO of Carbon Five.

Automating Node.js deployment to EC2 with Chef

This post is a follow up to my colleague Ben’s excellent post from three weeks ago describing how he got node.js up and running on Amazon EC2. He asked me if I could automate his deploy in order to help … Continue reading

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Raking and Testing with EventMachine

I have been getting more and more interested in high-performance Ruby apps, and in EventMachine in particular. First of all, super props to Aman Gupta for EM, and to some other Ruby devs out there who have been writing libraries … Continue reading

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Database migrations for Cassandra with ActiveColumn

We at Carbon Five are pleased to announce the release of ActiveColumn – an object mapping framework for Apache Cassandra. Currently at version 0.1.1, this gem is young but functional with its first major feature of data migration support. Prior … Continue reading

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Cassandra and Rails talk at LA NoSQL meetup

Last week, Mike Wynholds presented at the inaugural Los Angeles No SQL meetup. The movement to these non-traditional data storage systems has exploded in the last year, and we had a chance to use Cassandra in one of our client’s … Continue reading

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Evernote for the Palm Pre

The Pre, an innovative next generation smartphone from Palm Inc., recently launched with much fanfare. Access to the WebOS SDK was limited to a few select partners including Evernote, maker of a web, mobile and desktop applications for capturing and finding our memories, notes and inspirations. The Pre … Continue reading

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Dojo drag and drop gotcha in IE

I have been working on a web app for one of our clients that includes a pretty interactive AJAX / Web 2.0 component within it. This component is essentially a simplified drag-and-drop book publishing tool, which allows users to upload … Continue reading

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DBUnit, HSQL and the BOOLEAN data type

We have been using HSQL in-memory along with DBUnit for unit testing lately, and I found an issue using the most recent version of each. Basically, HSQL has added a new data type, BOOLEAN, which replaces BIT. But DBUnit is … Continue reading

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