Welcome to the professional site for Marc Colando, serial entrepreneur in Seattle, WA
Friday the 13th is as good an occasion as any to talk about servers, storage and backup. I’ve been running a solution that’s worked fantastically in the home office for more than a year and (fingers crossed!) should survive any bad luck today with flying colors.
International and other special characters can be a real hassle in Rails and MySQL because of different methods for encoding/decoding UTF-8. Two lines of code in your Rails database.yml file will get Rails and MySQL on the same page for easier development.