Double Shot #1195
- GigestApp - Get statistics about gem use in a GitHub user's repositories.
- Exo - Experimental web browser designed to be used as a platform to try new things.
- New AWS Command Line Interface (CLI) - Skip the web GUI and manage things directly.
- Exploring Elasticsearch - Free ebook.
- New edition of the LogStash Book - Not free but looks useful.
- HowToCode.io - Another web site to learn development for free. Just getting underway without much content yet.
- Amazon ElastiCache - Now With a Dash of Redis - Migrate your redis servers easily on to Amazon.
- wwtd - Gem to let you run Travis builds locally.
- Hexpress - Ruby DSL for human-readable regular expressions.
- AngularJS Tutorial: Learn to Build Modern Web Apps - How to get started with AngularJS.
Double Shot #1194
- A Couple of Useful Extensions to Ruby's Enumerable Module - Inspired by Scala and other languages.
- Buildbox - Hosted CI that uses your own infrastructure to do the actual builds.
- Two-factor Authentication - Available now on GitHub.
- Getting Started with Git: The Fundamentals - A tutorial from Dr. Dobb's.
- Incognito Browsing - Guide to activating incognito mode in all sorts of browsers.
- Teach, Don't Tell - Extensive guide to writing technical documentation.
Double Shot #1193
- The Number One Trait of a Great Developer - Judgement, according to Tammer Saleh. Sounds right to me.
- docx_templater - Another take on creating Word documents from specialized templates.
- Favicon Cheat Sheet - Much more than you probably wanted to know.
- MEGApwn - Oh look, your MEGA master key isn't as secret as you thought.
- Cupcake - Tent is evolving to provide encrypted storage for everything.
Double Shot #1192
- Knife Tricks - Some things to boost your Chef usage a bit.
- Build Dumb, Refactor Smart: How to Massage Problems Out of Rails Code - Some techniques to get from throwaway code to a decent architecture.
- AngularFire - Firebase + Angular = backend for your JavaScript application.
- mdn.io - Passive URL shoirtening for MDN - Try a url like "mdn.io/box model" and you'll end up where you expect.
- Evernote Essentials - Ebook about getting started well with Evernote.
- MemCachier - Managed memcached as a service.
- OmniAuth LaunchKey - Multifactor authentication strategy you can wire into your applications.
- Ember 1.0 Released - Framework reaches a milestone.
- The iOS Design Cheat Sheet - How the pixels fit together in the new flat look.
Double Shot #1191
- TorqueBox 3.0.0 Released - Lots of changes in this JRuby-based Ruby application server.
- The Web Developer's SEO Cheat Sheet 2.0 - Best practices, not scamminess.
- Inability to compile nondigest and digest assets breaks compatibility with bad gems - Or with anything else that wants to use a nondigested asset URL in Rails 4. If you don't care for the core team's "tough shit" attitude, there are workarounds here, here, and here. Don't make a nondigested manifest file, though, as that will break Capistrano deployments.
- rubyzip 1.0.0 - Major milestone in the library for working with zip files. Beware, though, all the class names changed.
- docx_builder - The code I'm using these days to build Microsoft Word XML files. It does just what our project needs and no more.
- Parallel gem installing using Bundler - Turns out there's a command-line switch to use multiple workers.
Double Shot #1190
- Snap - Hosted continuous integration that is targeting code on GitHub that deploys to Heroku.
- Named Pipes - Fun with Unix.
- Why I'm Saying Goodbye to Dropbox and Hello to SpiderOak Hive - A move made in the interest of security.
- Docker: Git for deployment - Some experimentation from the Scout guys.
Double Shot #1189
- 1pxdeep - Bootstrap 3 scheme designed to generate a set of harmonious colors.
- How git works - A quick look at the internals.
- ngrok - Tunnel localhost out to the internet and also capture traffic for inspection and replay.
- Introducing Brick - A new set of web components from Mozilla.
- The Rails 4 Diff Cheatsheet - The new features in an organized PDF.
- SmartGit/Hg - GUI client for git or mercurial.
- Code - Another attempt at building a good mechanical keyboard for coders.
- Rails autoloading - how it works, and when it doesn't - A deep dive into the architecture.
Double Shot #1188
- Ruby Object Mapper - The newest Ruby ORM on the scene.
- MemFs - Fake file system for testing file-oriented code.
- New in RubyMotion: Versioning, Bundler, Run on Device, Device Console, Better iOS 7 Support - A whole mess of changes in this version.
Double Shot #1187
- Rails 4 and Rake task gotcha - A circular dependency you can hit on initial deployment.
- A Model for Improving Names - Yes, naming is hard.
- Yeoman 1.0 - A major release for this client-side stack of tools.
- What's New in Bootstrap 3 - With notes on migrating from Bootstrap 2.
- Logstasher - Gem to automatically build logstash-compatible logs from a Rails application.
- Rails Hotline - Free phone support for Rails applications.
- Just Delete Me - Links to get rid of your accounts from various web services.
Double Shot #1186
- Gitx - Handy list of forks for this still-useful git GUI.
- Tengine - Web server based on nginx from the largest e-commerce site in Asia.
- Stormpath - User management and authentication as a service. Not sure I'm ready to outsource that piece but it's an interesting idea.
- GitLab 6.0 released! - On Bitnami for easy installing.
- Let Travis Push your RubyGems - One more bit of continuous deployment plumbing.
- Blueflood: A New Open Source Tool for Time Series Data at Scale - Rackspace has open sourced some of its monitoring code.
- Gemstash - An attempt to create a marketplace for selling ruby code.
Double Shot #1185
- JotForm API Developer Competition - Cash prizes from this web forms maker.
- 75 Essential Tools for iOS Developers - Lots of yummy links here.
- Everyday Rails Testing with RSpec - Ebook just updated to the latest Rails, Capybara, Factory Girl and RSpec versions.
- Announcing the Powerpack Library - Ruby library with utility methods but lighter than ActiveSupport.
- Colorsublime - Color themes for Sublime Text 2.
- I will not do your tech interview. - Neither will I. Hopefully more devs will take a stand against whiteboard code as the industry matures.
- Introducing Silvrback - New commercial blogging app designed to help people own their own brand.
Double Shot #1184
- Forced Exposure - Groklaw shuts down because email isn't safe to use any more. Bad news for netizens.
- Protect yourself from the hidden dangers of `curl <url> | sh` - Ways to look at code before running it.
- DRY in views - Going from a designer's work to something Railsish.
- Butterick's Practical Typography - A guide for those interested.
- Better BigDecimal#inspect - A fix for one of ruby's little annoyances.
- Composite - Turn Photoshop comps into interactive iOS demos.
Double Shot #1183
- Start Using Docker - New tutorial for this container manager.
- locomotive-chef-repo - Standalone chef recipes for setting up Rails with nginx and Unicorn.
- Build Artifacts - Circle CI now has a built-in way to save build artifacts for you as part of continuous integration.
- Bootstrap 3 released - It's out, with flat UI and theming, among many other features.
- Unboxing RubyMotion - A detailed getting started post.
- Sovereign - Set of Ansible playbooks to let you get off Google apps and into your own private cloud.
Double Shot #1182
- Rails API Testing Guidelines - Testing JSON APIs with minimal overhead.
- Bundler local paths - Nifty bundler feature that I hadn't know about.
- Pineapple.io - A collection of tutorials, tools, and assets for developers and designers.
- Hopscotch - Javascript framework for product tours designed by LinkedIn.
- Open Source Support - Ebook by Spree's Andrew Hooker.
- Cookieless cookies - Yet another way for sites to track your internet usage.
- Free SSL Certificates for Open Source Projects - Thanks to GlobalSign.
Double Shot #1181
- heroku-new - Command-line plugin to generate a Heroku-ready Rails application.
- Zero downtime migrations: 500 million rows - How to handle schema changes when you have a lot of data.
- Support for Rails 4.0.0 in Codelearn Playground - Use the latest in this online sandbox.
Double Shot #1180
- New Features of Firefox Developer Tools: Episode 25 - Best thing: the ability to hide whole libraries from Javascript stack traces.
- Web Security Relies on SSL Which Relies on Email Which is Broken - And life sucks.
- Deploying Multiple Heroku Apps From a Single Repo - In this case, ruby plus node.js.
- Bootstrap 3 RC2 - It's out.
- 4 Common Rails Errors and How to Fix Them - Some gleanings from Airbrake's tracking.
- Autoworkers of Our Generation - Coders are riding high right now. It won't last forever.
Double Shot #1179
- HTML - New Javascript library for working with the DOM.
- frak - Take a collection of strings and make a regex to match them (written in clojure).
- Elementary OS - A new Linux with a pretty face.
- Devise 3.1: Now with more secure defaults - And API changes.
Double Shot #1178
- Ruby Hacking Guide - New translation of an older guide to ruby implementation (MRI) internals.
- Nit Improves Your Git Workflow - Git wrapper to simplify common commands.
Double Shot #1177
- App.io - Run demo iOS apps in a web browser on the desktop.
- LiveStyle - Editor and browser syncing for CSS files etween Chrome or Safari and ST2.
- Nginx SE - Commerical variant of nginx with additional features.
- Koding - Online development environment that gets you access to the Ubuntu instance running your code.
- Mutations - A new pattern for organizing business logic in a Rails application.
- Rails Startup template - Another look at what should be included in a new Rails project.
- Cloudy with High Wins: Ruby on Rails with Nitrous.io - A lengthy article to get you started with cloud development.
Double Shot #1176
- Commit Often, Perfect Later, Publish Once: Git Best Practices - Just what it says. A good collection of tips and guidelines.
- Frontdesk - Collection of links to tools for front end developers.
- Harp - Web server built on node that has built-in preprocessing for Markdown, CoffeeScript, LESS and more.
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