Carl Mercier's blog

It is my pleasure to announce that my latest venture, Defensio (Karabunga Inc), has been acquired by leading Internet security company, Websense, Inc (NSDQ: WBSN). I’m not quite moving to the Caribbeans just yet as I’m now employed by Websense as Director of Software Development.  Needless to say, this is an exciting challenge for me [...]

Over the weekend, I was rethinking the way we should deploy our Merb application (our API) for Defensio. Everything I’ll say here applies to Rails as well. Managing gems has been painful lately. Like most people, we’re freezing them, which helps tremendously. However, there’s a few problems with this approach: We can’t freeze C extensions [...]