Double Shot #1215
- Static Site Generators - A giant list with links. There are a lot of them.
- Do You Know Cassandra? - An introduction in comic form.
- DeusEx - Gem to put your repo on an AWS instance long enough to deploy from it while GitHub is down.
- tux - An interactive shell for Sinatra applications.
Double Shot #1214
- Regularity - Another ruby DSL over the top of regex.
- Shumway - HTML5 renderer for the SWF file format, an open-source Flash replacement from Mozilla.
- High-speed Rails deploys with Git - Simplifying Capistrano to bring routine deploys down to a few seconds.
Double Shot #1213
- How to make $100K in OSS by working hard - An encouraging progress report from Mike Perham, author of sidekiq.
- Announcing Faye 1.0 - The pub/sub messaging system reaches a maturity milestone.
- Raw - "The missing link between spreadsheets and vector graphics" offers easy visual data analysis.
Double Shot #1212
- Serving ruby gems, the paranoid way - What it takes if you want to audit all the code.
- Struggling to find developers? Train them yourself. - Yes, there are still shortages of ruby devs.
- Google Web Designer - Despite the name, this is an ad designer. Generates HTML that reminds me of the stuff Microsoft Word used to crank out, too.
Double Shot #1211
- GitHub workflow for Alfred 2 - Pretty comprehensive wrapper for common GitHub operations.
- A Simple Git Branching Model - Worth a look if GitFlow is overkill for you.
- New Features on the Firefox Developer Tools - Stuff that's been released to the Aurora branch.
Double Shot #1210
- Reintroducing the Firefox Developer Tools, part 1: the Web Console and the JavaScript Debugger - Firefox native tools are moving along nicely.
- gitfiti - Create pretty pictures in your Githug commit history.
- Site Validator Gem - Free open-source validation for your web site.
- Thinking git - How and when to use git reflog.
Double Shot #1209
- Ruby 2.1 - Overview of the new features with code examples.
- JFrog Now Supports RubyGems - An interesting data point on the penetration of ruby into the enterprise.
- clb - Command-line tool for Rackspace load balancers.
Double Shot #1208
- Ruby 2.1.0-preview1 is released - Oh look, another new version before I've managed to deploy 2.0. You can try it on Heroku, too.
Double Shot #1207
- PeepCode Git Internals PDF - Now open-sourced and free.
- Safari on iOS 7 and HTML5: problems, changes and new APIs - "The buggiest Safari version since 1.0".
- Web Console - Run the Rails console straight in your browser for easier debugging.
- An Unusual Case For Cucumber and Not Invented Here - Two supporters of Cucumber respond to last week's posting against it.
- Why We Don't Document Code - It's not just laziness.
Double Shot #1206
- A Case Against Cucumber - Why you shouldn't bother writing Cucumber tests.
- The toolchain of dreams - Build a continuous deployment setup for under $50 per month.
- Smokescreen: Smoke Tests for Ruby - Run a quick subset of your tests to catch obvious issues.
- medium-editor - Clone of the medium.com inline editor toolbar.
- TogetherJS - Real-time collaboration JS library from Mozilla.
Double Shot #1205
- garaj - Add this gem and you can view your project's source code in the browser.
- Afloat - Free window manager that adds extra features to most Mac applications including floating and overlay windows.
- TripleSec - 3-way symmetric encryption library for the browser and node.js.
- Tag Cloud Refactoring - A worked example/tutorial demonstrating a variety of techniques.
- vanguard - External validators for any ruby class.
- Dang - Yet another ruby templating language.
Double Shot #1204
- Firefox-OS-Boilerplate-App - Code for the Firefox phone and Firefox Nightly apps.
- Updated SSL/TLS Deployment Best Practices deprecate RC4 - Securing servers is hard stuff.
- dploy - Hosted continuous deployment service.
- sidetiq - Recurring jobs for Sidekiq.
Double Shot #1203
- Creating the Perfect GPG Keypair - A lot of information on how to do it right with an eye towards maximum security.
- Cucumber Pro - Coming online system for writing and running Cucumber scenarios.
- Essential Tools for Starting a Rails App in 2013 - One developer's list.
Double Shot #1202
- Documentation is Win - or WTFM - Presentation from Spree Commerce's Dana Jones.
- A Nicer Syntax for Nicer Search - Ruby query builder for Riak.
- USBCondoms - Charge your devices using only the power pins, not the data pins.
- JSFuck - You can write any JavaScript using only []()!+ characters, or you can let this online tool do it for you.
- json.human.js - Use JavaScript to prettyprint JSON.
Double Shot #1201
- Cocktails for Programmers - On GitHub, open to pull requests. Cute idea though I dunno how drinkable.
- Coder - Web programming environment for Raspberry Pi from Google.
- Using CircleCI with Code Climate - How to hook up two good services to each other.
- Sublime Productivity - 140 page eBook, free for a little while then $19. Good deal for Sublime Text users.
Double Shot #1200
- Eloquent JavaScript, Second edition - A "crowd-funded reboot" of a classic text.
- Test Coverage and Code Quality, Better Together - A big update from Code Climate.
Double Shot #1199
- Capistrano database setup management - Automate the common practice of using separate credentials on production.
- CSS Length Explained - Inches, pixels, and similar goodies.
Double Shot #1198
- PostgreSQL 9.3 released! - With JSON support among other things.
- Reveal - Inspector for iOS apps, now in beta.
- 2.1.0 Released - New version of RubyGems that includes a fix for a denial of service attack.
- Rails load path tips - Some notes on a complex part of Rails.
Double Shot #1197
- seedbank - More structure for your Rails seed data.
- Cloning the UI of iOS 7 with HTML, CSS and JavaScript - A detailed walkthrough.
- Converting Markdown to a mind map - Implemented as an OS X service and a PopClip extension.
- 1Password and The Crypto Wars - AgileBits explains why it would be difficult for any security agency to backdoor their apps.
- Kochiku: CI for long test suites - Open source parallelized CI from Square.
- Running a Ruby app on Heroku with Phusion Passenger - And get nginx in the bargain.
Double Shot #1196
- Connected But Isolated: The Real Problem with Working Remotely - Screenhero describes the problem they're trying to solve. Just remember, some of us prefer isolation.
- Speed Up Git (5x to 50x) - Using a combination of SSH connection persistence and a local mirror server.
- I Am Always Amazed At How Little People Truly Understand About Github - An argument that it's not just for developers any more.
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