Articles from December 2008.

New bars and rubber for the steed

Posted about 1 year

Lemond Fillmore with bull horn bars and orange rubber

A couple of weeks ago I had to replace the old tires on my Fillmore as I’d worn through the green ones that came with teh bike. Took a bit of getting used to the orange but it’s definitely growing on me.

This last weekend I managed a puncture the inner tube while pulling the pump off which required a trip to Strada Cycles. I ended up replacing the bars and break callipers so it turned out to be a much more expensive trip than I was expecting. Just shy of £100 got me a new inner tube and I was back on the road again.

javascript_auto_include plugin updated

Posted about 1 year

I’ve updated the javascript_auto_include plugin to include changes from abradburne and jimp79. Thanks to these guys the plugin now supports nested controllers so you can add javascript to a paths like admin/users and admin/users/show/1 etc.

MySQL order by rand on large data sets

Posted about 1 year

More of a note to self than a real post. Great solution to extremely slow order by rand() queries when using large data sets by Paperplanes. Using this technique a query previously taking nearly 0.2 seconds was reduced to around 0.01 seconds.