Double Shot #682
Sometimes it's all about the code.
- A Walkthrough of Ruby In The Web Browser using IronRuby and Silverlight - Interesting, but Silverlight remains dead to me.
- Bundle Me Some Sanity - How to combine bundler with rvm to avoid teething pains.
- Rails 3.0.0.beta2 - It's out.
- OSX 10.6.3 installs new Ruby with faulty BigDecimal - Oh, isn't THAT nice?
Double Shot #681
Those April Fools jokes stopped being funny about the time of the last dot-com crash, guys.
- Haml/Sass 3 Beta Released! - This might actually be the release that gets me to use Sass. We'll see.
- Understanding Ruby Blocks, Procs, and Lambdas - Pretty good explanation, though I still don't really use this chunk of Ruby much.
- Postmark - Transactional email and delivery for web applications at $1.50 per thousand.
- Introducing Rails Routes TextMate Bundle - Quickly jump to route targets in your Rails code.
- Privacy-related changes coming to CSS :visited - Isn't unilaterally changing standards just as bad when you're Firefox as when you're IE?
- link2 - "Generation next link_to-helper for Rails: Spiced with semantic beauty and intelligence."
Double Shot #680
This week is just passing in a blur.
- CouchDB quick ref/starting guide - Just enough to get cooking.
- Ruby Hero Awards - It's time to nominate your unsung heroes again.
- pluginquery - Search engine for jQuery plugins.
- FireFontFamily 0.1 - Indicate the rendered font in Firebug.
- DirectedEdge - Redommendation engine with an API. They've got a page for Ruby developers.
Double Shot #679
It's hard to write code when your brain cells are not actually functioning. Cold, go away.
- Code Pilot - Enhanced code navigation tools for Xcode.
- Monitoring a Log File - Using Scout, which is actually something I was going to have to code up. Now I don't.
- Firefox Nightly Builds - 3.7a4 is out if you're as crazy as me.
- GitStats - Statistics generator for git projects.
Double Shot #678
Odds and ends...
- jQueryPad - Tool for playing with jQuery, on Windows only.
- Ubiquo - Another Rails CMS framework.
- jQuery Presentation Plugin: Say NO to Keynote! - Another way to do purely-web presentations.
- A Turing Machine - Someone actually realized a classic Turing machine in hardware. Nifty.
- Puppet versus Chef: 10 reasons why Puppet wins - The article is flamebait, but the comments are worth reading.
Double Shot #677
Just a couple of links to close out the week.
- JumpBox Jumps Ahead - Open Source as a Service on Amazon EC2 - I can only dream that some day this sort of initiative will make sysadmin hassles a thing of the past.
- The pg_query_analyzer gem: PostgreSQL query analysis in your development logs - AKA another way to figure out which indexes might do you some good.
Double Shot #676
Yesterday, I wrote code. So, fewer resources this morning.
- Trailhead - "Heatmap visualization on the cheap" to help you figure out what parts of your page people look at and click on.
- Tweetstream - "Easy access to everything you've ever tweeted."
Double Shot #675
Another night of sleep deprivation thanks to small children.
- Sinatra 1.0 Released - And congratulations to all involved.
- jQuery UI 1.8 - Speaking of significant releases.
- Ruby Summer of Code - Rails didn't get approved for Google Summer of Code this year, but now the ruby community has their own alternative. Alas, I don't see any sign that the contributions are tax-deductible, which is a shame.
- MTR - Nice combined alternative to ping and traceroute. Here are instructions to get it running on OS X.
- TinyMCE for Rails - Lots of upgrades to this project lately.
- Web Design Checklist - Another look at HTML5 and CSS3 support levels in various browsers.
Double Shot #674
Whatever happened to kids just playing in the mud and enjoying it?
- Hunting bugs thru history - Darn, there's a way to automate git-bisect that I never knew about. Excellent secret teachings.
- Firediff 1.0 - See the changes on a web page via Firebug. Looks great for debugging client-side DOM issues.
- JavaScript Encryption and Decryption - I may actually have a client use for this technique. AES in JavaScript.
- FireSass Bridges the Gap Between Sass and Firebug - And gives you Sass line numbers to debug from.
- kilt - Growl integration for Pivotal Tracker projects.
Double Shot #673
Spring Camp week for the kids, but that doesn't make the parents any less busy.
- MessagePack - Another object serialization library, this one designed to minimize the traffic and be fast.
- WebROaR - New application server for Rails that claims to be faster and handle higher loads than the alternatives.
- Blue Light Special - Quickly set up authentication, authorization, and some other conveniences thanks to the Envy Labs guys.
- Onfire brings bubbling events to your Ruby objects - And so it does.
- King of API - "A selection of building blocks for your app," this site is collecting information on the various billing, video, maps, and other APIs you might find it useful to call. There's also Cloudomatic, which focuses on SAAS apps that may or may not have an API.
- SimplyStored - AR-like convenience layer for CouchDB or SimpleDB.
- CouchDBX - One-step CouchDB package for OS X.
- CloudCache - On-demand caching in the cloud.
- Farbtastic - I needed a jQuery color picker, and this one worked out nicely.
- Masked Input Plugin - Another chunk of jQuery that fulfilled a client requirement for me.
- Impel - Javascript to HTML 5 ORM.
Double Shot #672
Early mornings are the good time - before the world wakes up to overload me.
- Express - Web development framework for Node.js.
- MySQL Reference for OS X - Useful little cheat sheet for administrative tasks.
- f.lux - Automatically update your computer's lighting for the time of day.
Double Shot #671
There are times I actually think I know what I'm doing.
- jQuery.Syntax - Lightweight syntax highlighter.
- Find Icons - Search engine for free icons.
- Timing Ruby Code - It Is Easy With Benchmark - Reminder of one of the ruby conveniences I often forget.
- Ruby Best Practices - You can now download this entire Ruby book for free.
Double Shot #670
It was a quiet day on the edge of madness.
- Rit. – The anti-CMS content scheduling system in Rails - A different approach to solving the problem of content updating. Here's the code.
- Agile git Workflow - Some good crib notes for new git users.
Double Shot #669
I'd rather be gardening.
- ContentFlow - Nice looking Coverflow-like UI implemented in jQuery.
- Updating the Path Everywhere on Ubuntu 09.10 - How to make sure REE is the Ruby for everything.
- State Machine 0.8.1 - Finite state machine compatible with Rails 3, among other things.
- Using CoffeeScript in Rails and even on Heroku - CoffeeScript is to JavaScript as HAML is to ERB. Sort of. Dr. Nic explains here.
- When can I use... - Compatibility tables for upcoming HTML and CSS features.
Double Shot #668
I poked at this and that over the weekend. Here's some of the results.
- Spotless - I've been looking for something to use to bludgeon OS X Spotlight into behaving. This might be it.
- CSS3 Please! - Cross-browser CSS3 rule generator and sandbox. There's also CSS3 Generator.
- jQuery Masonry - Pack elements closer on a page than CSS floats can normally manage.
- puppet-dashboard - Web interface for the Puppet system provisioning tool.
- Redis: Data Cheeseburgers - A quick tutorial on getting started with this tool. There's also Redis Weekly Update now.
- Rails "Good Touch"/"Bad Touch" - Code to let you update dates on models without running through their after_save callbacks.
- Setting rather than Resetting Default Styling - A different approach to getting baseline CSS for your web projects.
- Designing for the Web - Free online book. If you like it, you can buy a PDF for a reasonable price.
- Like, Python - Someone needs to do this for Ruby.
Double Shot #667
It's time to work on filling my dance card for April, just in case you were looking for an extra pair of coding hands.
- Make Sure Your Rails Application is Actually Caching (and not just pretending) - Good advice as you're trying to tune performance.
- markItUp! - jQuery plugin to turn textareas into markup areas.
- ideone - Pastebin that also allows running code.
- Rails 2 and Rails 3: So Happy Together - One solution to running both on the same box, though I think disjoint ruby environments is probably a better idea.
Double Shot #666
Yes, it's another day, dark and rainy at that.
- Try Redis - Online/in-browser demo of the redis database.
- 73primenumbers - I was amused.
- Tarsnap - "Online backups for the truly paranoid" with the encryption happening securely on your client.
- Spritely - jQuery plugin for sprite-based animations.
- Drink Rails - Another Rails link blog joins the fray.
- Lawnchair - Client-side JSON document store inspired by CouchDB.
- happening - EventMachine based S3 client, for interactions without blocking.
Double Shot #665
Cautiously putting a toe in the water of SSD-based computing.
- Mac Performance Guide - "For digital photographers & performance addicts," there's plenty here for developers to chew on too.
- LightMongo - Persistence layer for Mongo that doesn't try to emulate ActiveRecord.
- Spoke - Another way to package up and deploy gem code with minimal configuration.
- rocco - Literate programming documentation generator.
- Disconnect - More discussion of Rails 3 and Bundler.
Double Shot #664
And what about your need for software development?
- Vagrant - Automated creation and provisioning of VirtualBox VMs.
- Programmers: What To Do If You Get Fired - Giles is hawking his latest product, but it still makes for amusing reading, especially if you want to hunt a new job. Of course I'll tell you how to be happier with no job.
- Bundler: Oh the fail I know - Another developer steps up to complain of the foibles of bundler.
Double Shot #663
I'll just be over here in the corner, trying to write some code.
- Public Beta: Deployment Stacks: You now have a choice of Debian and Ruby versions on Heroku.
- Smart HTTP Transport - Interesting, setting up your own git server might get easier now.
- Smack a Ho.st - Easier testing for Rails apps with subdomains.
- Ruby's Metaprogramming Toolbox - An introduction.
- Highlight - Syntax highlighting for Rails projects via a plugin that wraps pygments.
- Stubbing and Setting Expectations on HTTP Requests Is Now Easy With WebMock - Looks like a potential alternative to fakeweb with a bit more spice.
- identity-map - Simple Identity Mapper implementation for Active Record.
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