Double Shot #229
Somehow, summer is proving to be more hectic than winter was - more time out with the kids, I think. But there's still plenty of Rails work to do and Internet to cruise.
- Rails 2 PeepCode Updated w/2.1 Features - This was the best intro to Rails 2 I found; I expect it will be the best intro to 2.1, too.
- A Concise Guide to Using Thinking Sphinx - Huh, a Sphinx plugin I hadn't seen before. Has anyone compared with Ultrasphinx?
Double Shot #228
And now I have the fun of provisioning a new server on top of trying to get some work done.
- Sending Mail from Rails Through Google SMTP - I may need to know this some day.
Double Shot #227
The big deployment effort on one project is about over, another has gone national, and I'm settling down to write some more code. Some days "routine" is good.
- Free Rails 2.1 Book - The Brazilian Rails community has put together a free ebook for the rest of us. Thanks, guys.
- Phusion Passenger 2.0 RC1 and Ruby Enterprise Edition Released - More news from the Phusion folks.
Double Shot #226
Looking forward to a productive day.
- Dismantling BrowserPlus - why goes hacking around inside Yahoo's extensions and finds out how to serve Ruby there.
Double Shot #225
One of the first RoR sites I contracted on has finally launched. I thought it was cursed forever.
- Beware OS X 10.5.3 Bug That Destroys Adobe PSD Files - This one sounds nasty. Haven't hit it myself, but then, I only piddle around in PhotoShop once in a great while.
- Rubular - Online regex tester for Ruby.
- Growl 1.1.3 - Finally, non-beta Growl support for OS X Leopard.
- Engine Yard Express - Want to see how Engine Yard set up their Rails hosting? Download a VMware image of one of their slices.
- Waiting for a Factory Girl - Another approach to replacing fixtures with factories.
- Composite Primary Keys Goes 1.0.0 for Rails 2.1 - More news from Dr. Nic.
Double Shot #224
The internets were not busy yesterday. Or else I was away from my desk too much.
- RubyCocoa: Bringing some Ruby Love to OS X - The latest beta book from the Pragmatic Programmers.
Double Shot #223
It's off to the Red Cross for me again today.
- Pool Party - Ruby gem to manage load balancing and failover with Amazon EC2 instances.
- Ylastic - Another AWS management suite, "coming soon."
- Versions - Subversion client for OS X, now out in beta.
Double Shot #222
Why isn't there a GUI log viewer for OS X that understands ANSI colors?
- Firebug 1.2b2 - Another release of the essential Firefox add-in.
- FixtureReplacement - Replacement for Rails fixtures that takes a factory approach to building test objects.
Double Shot #221
Well, after almost 2 years of Mac ownership, I've had a machine turn into a brick. Law of averages, I guess.
- Introducing Vertebra - The EngineYard guys are starting to experiment with XMPP-connected Rails cloud computing.
- REST for Rails 2 - The latest screen cast from PeepCode.
Double Shot #220
Another month, even more software to get distracted by.
- MagLev is Gemstone/S for Ruby, Huge News - Apparently the talk from Maglev at RailsConf was well received. Their site is still in stealth mode, though.
- Rails 2.1: Time zones, dirty, caching, gem dependencies, caching, etc - Shipped at RailsConf, to no one's real surprise.
- RailsConf Slides for Testing Talk - From Dan Manges, with links to a batch of test tools.
Double Shot #219
Switching an app from solr to ferret today...and crossing my fingers.
- Freeconomics Part I - or who is paying for your Free lunch? - Some basic economic analysis from Broadstuff that ought to be more obvious to those who claim there's no bubble going on.
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RSpec waving 'bye bye' to implicit module inclusion - News of a change coming that will break RSpec compatibility.
- Download Day -The latest silly Firefox promotional stunt.
- Announcing non-profit Hobo Foundation - Looks like the Hobo additions to Rails have some money behind them now.
- TuneUp - New site/plugin from FiveRuns that sends perf information from your Rails site to a community discussion board (you choose which info to show) so others can help you troubleshoot. More info here.
Double Shot #218
Solr is not playing nice in deployment. Ugh.
- Kete 1.0 - Open source digital library (sort of wiki + CMS) built in Rails.
- Rails Security Audit - The latest PDF from PeepCode.
- Pragmatic Screencasts - A new place to look for screencasts on dynamic languages.
Double Shot #217
I am convinced I am going to will the remaining unfixed bugs on one project to my heirs. Time to buckle down for another pass at them, I guess.
- RSpec-1.1.4 - Another maintenance release with a few new bits of syntactic sugar.
- Google-served JavaScript Libraries - You can now host your Prototype and Scriptaculous bits (among others) on Google's servers.
- Sample OpenID application updated for latest Rails and OpenID gem - Ben Curtis continues to make life easy for folks who want to let folks use OpenID with Rails apps.
Double Shot #216
I need to get some MySQL ETL going to build a datamart. Looks like I can choose from Clover.ETL, Enhydra Octopus, or Apatar. Anyone used any of those?
- GitHub and TextMate Unite - Another TextMate bundle from Dr. Nic.
- 21 Ruby Tricks You Should Be Using in Your Own Code - Some medium to advanced idioms from Peter Cooper.
- SyncSql - SAAS site to synchronize a pair of MySQL databases.
Double Shot #215
Theoretically a holiday in the States today. Given the amount of "rush rush" work on my plate, I'll take a rain check on that.
- Community Engine - Add social networking features via a Rails plugin. (via Ruby Inside)
- Content Generation and the Law - A quick survey from Eric Goldman. Worth reading before you try to come up with a glib answer to Twitter's recent TOS/stalking issues. (via Denise Howell)
- 28 mod_rails/Passenger Resources to Help You Deploy Rails Applications Faster - Great roundup from Peter Cooper. I wonder if I want to tackle this on one of my servers.
- The Return of Rails Components - Another scheme for adding interchangeable functionality to Rails apps.
- YAML 1.2 Ensconces and Envelopes JSON - A new draft for the next YAML spec is out.
- Useful JavaScript: textCounter - Show the number of characters remaining in a text input. Where was this when I needed it?
- Living on the Edge (of Rails) #22 - The big news this time is that all the tests for Rails now pass in Ruby 1.9.
- ClipboardSharing - Free utility for folks with multiple Macs.
- Spike - Clipboard sharing with multiple clips and clipboards for OS X or Windows. Not free, but at $7 and down per copy it looks worth paying for.
Double Shot #214
Working on two site launches, tidying up code...life is busy & interesting. I just wish I could get away from the sysadmin nonsense.
- Firebug 1.2b1 - The new version (suitable for FF3) just moved up from alpha. Get it here.
- AT&T Coverage Viewer - Take a peek here if the siren song of iPhone 2.0 is already calling to you. Alas, AT&T appears no more interested in bringing 3G to Evansville than Sprint is. What the heck, there are only 300K folks in the area.
Double Shot #213
Worn out from yesterday's trip to Holiday World. Hoping today's huge pile of work is more relaxing.
- Real World CSRF: Update Your Radiant Now - A good reason to move up to the most recent version of Radiant.
Double Shot #212
A rare day off for me today, taking kids to the amusement park. Back at it tomorrow, assuming I survive.
- Ask Your Doctor About mod_rails - Topfunky reports generally positive experiences.
- Roroni - That's "Ruby on Rails on System i". Who knew?
- GitCasts - Screencasts to teach you how to use git.
Double Shot #211
No matter how well things were running before, the deployment always reveals new teething pains. I suppose some of this is a process issue.
- Karelia iMedia Browser - Cute little file management doohickey for OS X.
- Textmate Gem - A new way to manage Textmate bundles.
Double Shot #210
It's school vacation week around here, so I'm looking forward to writing plenty of code.
- Firefox 3 (Release Candidate) Release Notes - If you've been holding off upgrading, this is a good time to go for it.
- Cloud Studio - Another tool for managing Amazon Web Services instances.
- A Hodel 3000 Compliant Logger for the Rest of Us - Old stuff, but I'm bookmarking here so I can find it again. Good info on basic perf monitoring for Rails apps.
- Rails on Rubinius - A milestone achieved. (via Ezra Zygmuntowicz)
- Key Rollover - Instructions for recovering from last week's giant Debian security cock-up.
- Debian OpenSSL Predictable PRNG Toys - In fact, you can even download handy lists of all the valid keys from the bad versions of Debian. Lovely.
- WindyCityRails - Rails conference in Chicago in September. I'm thinking about it.
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