Member function name of the week:

RequestProcessorFactoryFactory.RequestSpecificProcessorFactoryFactory

Uh, way to go Apache XML-RPC team.

InstantRails is an all-in-one distribution of Rails, Apache, and Mysql for Windows users. It comes with a funky little console, and some demo rails applications to play with. A very quick way to hack at Rails bits when in Windows land.

Some tips on optimizing your Apache config for faster loading sites.

DTrace and PHP
“And because it’s DTrace, this can all be done on a production box — and without regard to the number of PHP processes. (So if you have 200 Apache processes handling PHP, the above invocations would aggregate across them.)”