Double Shot #1552
- Crab - Command-line SQL interface to your file system.
- HTTP is obsolete. It's time for the distributed, permanent web - Neocities is implementing IPFS for distributed web sites.
Double Shot #1551
- httpbin - Online HTTP request/response service for testing a wide variety of endpoints in your client code.
- flexbox in 5 minutes - Learn the ins and outs of this new CSS feature in an interactive tour.
Double Shot #1550
- Rails Composer with Rails Tutorials - Kickstarter trying to fund further development on this "Rails generator on steroids".
- Keeping Your Logs from Becoming an Unreadable Mess - Using tagged logging in Rails.
- You've got Mail: Action Mailer + Letter_Opener - A gem to open mails inside browser tabs during development.
Double Shot #1549
- Debug Rails Faster with Quiet Assets & Quieter Logs - How to make Rails be a bit less verbose in its logging.
- Announcing RubyMotion 4.0: free Starter edition, cross-platform games, watchOS 2.0 - Ruby for iOS continues to improve.
Double Shot #1548
- Thimble - All-in-one online code editor from Mozilla that makes just mucking around in the web pretty easy.
- homebrew-services - Homebrew plugin to integrate services with launchctl.
- Using Bootstrap 4 Rubygem with Rails - Just in case you can't wait to play with the latest alpha.
Double Shot #1547
- Sqitch - "Sane database change management" independent of your framework and ORM.
- Squid - Add-on to Prawn to plot charts into PDF files.
- How to install and Use Ruby-Prof Gem - Getting set up for fast profiling.
Double Shot #1546
- Lita - Chatbot written in Ruby. I don't like to regret things, but boy does this make the time I spent farting around in the Hubot source look entirely wasted.
- How to run a team of people who never see each other - Advice from Elance.
Double Shot #1545
- What's New in Bootstrap 4 - Lots.
- The Power of Power Cycling - In the bad old days when I was in customer support, we used to joke that 90% of the problems we got calls for could be solved by remembering that it works better when it's plugged in & turned on. Actually I'm not sure that was a joke.
- I, Object! - Just how do all those ducks work in Ruby, anyhow?
Double Shot #1544
Why I'm opposed to Codes of Conduct: I fear a race to be holier than thou, a world where everyone who does not stay perfectly aligned with a party line set by the most intolerant gets attacked and dismissed. I am troubled by the trend to protect people from being challenged by diverse ideas, and I hold (with John Stuart Mill) that a vibrant marketplace of ideas - even odious ideas - is our best guarantee of continued freedom and intellectual progress.
- A Salute to Solo Programmers - It's hard for me to read this without thinking that our industry has gone far, far down the wrong path. Of course, I think that most of the time anyhow. But there could have been a world in which impressively functional applications were small & nearly bug-free.
- httpie - CLI tool for making HTTP requests designed to be simpler to use than cURL.
- Writ - "Opinionated, classless styles for semantic HTML" - In other words, a better default stylesheet than your browser uses by itself.
Double Shot #1543
- Rails Contributor Code of Conduct - I just want to make it 100% crystal clear that I do not represent the Rails project or its community. As far as I'm concerned, this whole CoC trend is an extremely bad idea.
- Bootstrap 4 Alpha - Remember when this CSS framework was just a teeny little thing? Yeah, me neither. The Future of Developing Firefox Add-ons - The future appears to consist of dropping the way add-ons have been written for a decade and reducing what they can do. Some developers are not happy. I'm not real happy either; this brings up the real possibility of not having a single web browser that fits my needs.
Double Shot #1542
- Test Load Balancer (TLB) - Tool to break up your tests so you can run them in parallel.
- Introduction to Roda - Try a non-Rails ruby web framework.
Double Shot #1541
- Lists - This business of lists of lists of lists of resources is getting out of hand.
- The Definitive Guide for the Perfect Daily Standup [with 9 actionable tips] - I'm not convinced that any number of tips will help some of the standup I've listened to, but if you're going to do a standup at least think about it.
- Tips for participating in the Rails Rumble - I just don't get the attraction of spending 48 hours doing nothing but writing an app that will go nowhere in a year, but if you do, more power to you.
Double Shot #1540
- Rails 4.2.4.rc1 and 4.1.13.rc1 have been released! - Another little version bump for your updating pleasure.
- Stronger Shell - I keep telling myself that some day I'll get better at shell scripting. I've been telling myself that for 20 years or so.
- gitfs - A git-backed file system so non-developers can participate in your version control.
Double Shot #1539
- Versatil Markdown - Desktop Markdown hyper notebook app with 1Password integration, $9.99 in the App Store.
- Announcing Docker Toolbox - All-in-one installer for various Docker tools on OS X and Windows.
- Running three hours of Ruby tests in under three minutes - How Stripe built a massively parallel testing infrastructure.
Double Shot #1538
- AppHub - React Native framework to allow updating your iOS apps without going through Apple review. It may be technically OK under the current license agreement but I'll bet Apple cracks down on this stuff soon.
- Introducing Docker Content Trust - Strong cryptographic signatures for what gets installed in Docker images.
- GitHub Desktop is now available - Next version of the GitHug desktop client for Mac and Windows.
Double Shot #1537
- Announcing Rails Rumble 2015! - Yep, the big competition for Ruby applications is back again.
- Advanced Arel Cheat Sheet - Just in case the supported ActiveRecord API is too straightforward for you.
- table_print - IRB helper for tabular data.
Double Shot #1536
- What are some of the things about Ruby on Rails that most developers don't know? - A few good tips here.
- Sidekiq Enterprise - A new option for large companies using Sidekiq who need additional features and support.
- Reversing the GoDaddy-ification of application monitoring - Scout plans to build a more focused solutions.
Double Shot #1535
- Patching Rails Performance - Some techniques used by Heroku to make life happier for everyone.
- Windows Bridge for iOS - Use Visual Studio to write iOS code. Sort of like adding ground glass to the dog poop that you just stepped in.
- AWS Device Farm - Amazon Web Services offers testing for your Android and iOS apps on real devices.
Double Shot #1534
- JAWS - A "Javascript and AWS Stack" to let you deploy scalable sites without servers on the cheap.
- Evolution of Ruby on Rails - Youtube movie of Gource visualization of the entire RoR repo.
- Fast Ruby - Techniques for speeding up your code, with benchmarks. Do run the benchmarks on your own app rather than just cargo-culting this stuff.
Double Shot #1533
- Postgres Guide - Good resource to help climb the learning curve for this database.
- getAwesomeness() - Large list of lists of development links.
- Sustainable Development Campaign - Ruby Object Mapper is trying to raise funds to push on to 1.0 and better support users.
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