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Teenormous.com is a t-shirt search engine which just went live yesterday. My friend Brian Pipa of Candy Addict fame and I have been cranking away for the past several months to make this happen. The site has almost 15,000 shirts already and many more features and t-shirts are on the way. Stop by and check it out. Feedback is welcome.

You can read the official announcement from the Teenormous blog.

“Josh has been working on a Google Summer of Code project to bring thread safety to Rails and is just about ready to wrap it up. Rails 2.2 will be thread safe thanks to the work that Josh has put into it.”

Didn’t expect to see that great news inside here: http://weblog.rubyonrails.com/2008/8/16/josh-peek-officially-joins-the-rails-core That should deserve its own post.

I look forward to a Rails that is thread safe. I often have to work around any parallel tasks I run inside a Rails container by wrapping all Active Record calls inside a Mutex. It will be nice when that is not needed. Congrats Josh!