Monthly Archives: March 2007

ICHicanery8

Or: How to install Windows XP on a SATA hard drive attached to an Intel ICH8 SATA controller in AHCI mode. I, like many people, have an Asus P5B motherboard, the non-Deluxe model. It’s been a pretty good board for me so far, and I’m pleased with its feature set for the price I paid. [...]

Thoughts on Rails Performance

2007-03-07: Added results for testing with Mongrel and the ActiveRecord session store using MyISAM tables. As many of you know I’m a rather big fan of Ruby on Rails, the web application development framework. I adore Ruby as a language for all sorts of tasks, and I’ve found I’m able to get a great deal [...]