Surviving the Hacker News effect

Posted on 23. Nov, 2009 by andy in Apps

When the story hit the front page, I was receiving such an amount of requests for this article I couldn’t even keep the server going. It is running as a virtual machine and at many points the server peaked above 80.00 on it’s load average. It was so high that the host server shut it down countless times. This comes to hard lesson #1… CACHE! Now this site (not surprisingly) is ran using Wordpress. Luckily that means there are tons of great caching plugins. Use one! I had reminded myself about three times to do that in September and October, but found excuses not to. It’s simple and it saved my site.

Why a jokes app?

Posted on 12. May, 2009 by andy in Apps

Yah, that’s right Ninth Division produced a funny little application with redneck jokes in them. I think those types of jokes are timeless and funny. Yah, I know there are a lot of little joke applications on the App Store. Here are some of things I have heard from a few from people waaay too many times…

Latest Apple rejection message

Posted on 21. Apr, 2009 by andy in Apps, iPhone Development

I submitted Redneck Jokes for an update. After a week in the apple review process, I got a response. It wasn’t great…