Vermonster Blog : Code is Craft

This is a weblog written by the people at Vermonster, a small technology consulting company based in Boston, Massachusetts. We write about Ruby, the Rails framework, Agile and Lean Development and other techie topics.

Build-a-Gem Workshop Recap

Posted by Brian Kaney on Feb 26 2010

We had another Newer Yankee Workshop on Tuesday, following the success of our previous Cucumber session in our Read More »

We Moved to 71 Broad St in Boston

Posted by Brian Kaney on Jan 27 2010

After 8ish years on Stuart St, we moved our office. We are still unpacking, setting things up and starting to... Read More »

Recommended Omnigraffle Guide for Rails ORM

Posted by Brian Kaney on Dec 29 2009

We recently developed a work-in-progress style guide for using Omnigraffle to describe Object Relationship Mappings (ORMs) in our Rails... Read More »

Cucumber Workshop Recap

Posted by Brian Kaney on Dec 16 2009

Thanks to Greg Sterndale for running the show and Plectix for footing the food bill, we had a fantastic... Read More »

Mysql::Error: Lock wait timeout exceeded; try restarting transaction

Posted by Steve Masterman on Dec 11 2009

This post pertains to MySQL with InnoDB.

With heavy concurrency it is common to see the “Lock wait timeout” error... Read More »

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