Double Shot #1175
- Pandacodium - Upcoming worldwide online hackathon focused on real-time web applications.
- Restoring Trust in Government and the Internet - Bruce Schneier's ruminations on our current mess. I fear I'm less optimistic than he is.
- Pixel Perfect Timing Attacks with HTML5 - Oh look, another way for malicious code to read info it isn't supposed to see.
- Configuring Apache, Nginx, and OpenSSL for Forward Secrecy - Another technique that it's probably worth learning about.
- Cache Digests - Gem to make it easier to maintain Russian-doll caching in Rails when you use nested templates.
- Send Your Errors to Flowdock - Bugsnag becomes the latest service to offer Flowdock integration.
- Resources for Building Robust Rails Applications - A whole mess of object-oriented links.
Double Shot #1174
- An improved DevTools Editing Workflow - There's some sexy work going on inside of Chrome.
- Chrome's Insane Password Security Strategy - On the other hand, there are still things to dislike about Chrome.
- Perspectives Project - Crowd-sourced SSL certificate verification. There's a Firefox addon too.
- Firebug Extension: FireStorage Plus! - Manage web storage - Inspect and modify local and session storage.
- Joybox - iOS game development based on RubyMotion.
Double Shot #1173
- Mask CSRF tokens to mitigate BREACH attack - A measured discussion in the Rails source code.
- Darling - Open source emulation layer for OS X apps on Linux (like Wine for Windows). Not really mature enough to be useful yet, but promising.
- Must Have Gems for Development Machine in Ruby on Rails - A whole pile of tools and utilities you might find useful.
- dbinbox - "An inbox for your Dropbox" so people can easily upload files to you.
- Intro to CoffeeScript - Aimed at people who don't see the point.
Double Shot #1172
- WineBottler - Run Windows programs on your Mac via Wine and a UI for creating and installing bundles.
- Tiff - Visual comparison tool for fonts.
- Data Compression Proxy - Beware, Chrome on Android and iOS is starting down the "asset optimization" road.
- Breach - New attack that can lift secrets from HTTPS pages. If you're running a Rails app, it's worth having a look at breach-mitigation-rails to fight back.
Double Shot #1171
- Pwned again: An exclusive look at Pwnie Express' newest hack-in-a-box - Be your own NSA!
- Arachnid - Make js-generated pages indexable by spiders by using PhantomJS to scrape and store HTML copies.
Double Shot #1170
- Introducing Quip - New take on word processing directed at collaboration and mobile devices.
- The Hipster Logo Design Guide - How to join the latest trends in your logo.
- Maildown - Write your emails for ActionMailer in Markdown and forget about having to maintain two copies.
Double Shot #1169
- API Blueprint - Tools for developing and documenting your app's API.
- Hulk - In-browser JSON editor.
- The Microsoft Manifesto - An ode to the way that we used to think.
- PSD.rb - LayerVault introduces open source code to read and write the PSD file format.
- Zipkin - Large-scale distributed tracing system from Twitter.
- Bootstrap 3 RC1 - Looks like we're on the verge of a new version of this widespread UI code.
Double Shot #1168
- Attrio 0.5 - Attributes for Plain Old Ruby Objects.
- git-deliver - Deployment system built on git and ssh.
- Excuses for Lazy Coders - All that you could ever want.
- Rails 4 and ActiveRecord 4.0 - A look at some of the new features.
- Learn AWS with New Self-Paced Labs - Remember when Amazon Web Services used to be just 'we'll spin up a server in the cloud for you'?
- gmail-britta - Generate your GMail filters via a ruby DSL.
- Sellbox - Hook up Dropbox and content to sell with money sent back to you via PayPal.
- Queues - Encyclopedia of queuing systems with links to the code and explanatory articles.
Double Shot #1167
- Exercism.io - "Crowd-sourced code reviews on daily practice problems" to better your Ruby, Elixir, Clojure and JavaScript chops.
- GPGMail 2 is finally here! - If recent events have you interested in privacy and you're on a Mac this is worth a look.
- Ruby Warrior - Coding challenge combined with a text adventure.
- CoffeeScript tests for Rails apps - How to get started with Konacha.
- My Experience with OAuth.io - Look at a new service for easily integrating OAuth.
- Crypton - Framework for building cryptographically-secure cloud applications.
- Ajax Replay - A JavaScript equivalent of the vcr gem for playing back live API responses.
- Getting Started with Chef - A quick introduction.
- How to hack a Rails app using its secret_token - Read this if you don't understand why putting your secret token on GitHub is a bad idea. There's also Metasploit code around to check for this.
Double Shot #1166
- Getting started with apps - Firefox OS for developers: the platform HTML5 deserves - If you can build HTML5 apps, you can build for the Firefox OS devices.
- How's Testing Going? - Lovely new (and NSFW) poster from The Profound Programmer.
- Flynn - "Open source PaaS powered by Docker", planning to build a Heroku-like system that you can deploy on your own servers.
- Rails 3.2.14 has been released! - And 3.2.15 is going to be the last bug fix release, so development on this version is drawing to a close.
- Web Development on a VM - Is it slower? - Some timings on a MacBook Air.
- Upton - A Web Scraping Framework - From ProPublica, in Ruby.
- Konami Code Sites - There are a bunch of them out there.
- Pkgr - Turn a Rails app into a native package.
Double Shot #1165
- Meet the Ipsums - Plenty of silly text generators for your upcoming sites.
- cloud-to-butt - Mose useful Chrome extension ever.
- Cloak - Simple VPN for use on public wi-fi networks.
- Matryoshka Fragment Caching in Rails - Using the database to generate collection cache keys.
- rumm - Command line tool for managing the Rackspace cloud.
- Lost Treasures of Infocom - Best reason yet for an old fart like me to own an iPad.
Double Shot #1164
- Effeckt.css - Collection of CSS transitions & animations to jazz up your pages.
- Sharing Examples in Minitest - More on the extensibility of Minitest.
- Upgrading to Rails 4 - What you need to do if you're using Capistrano for deployment.
Double Shot #1163
- Smash the Monolith: Taming Legacy Rails Applications - Another ebook coming soon.
- Responsive JavaScript in Rails - Sketch towards a technique for loading only the JS you need when you need it.
- Put yourself on rails with a push of a button - Script to launch a development environment on Ubuntu with various bells and whistles.
- Spring cleanup for object creation in Rails - Moving code from controller to model.
- HipChat Notifications - From Scout, that is.
Double Shot #1162
- What is Programmer Anarchy and does it have a future? - Oh look, post-agile trends.
- Building static websites with Middleman - A tutorial on how to do it.
- quine-relay - Program that generates its own source by looping through 50 languages. Amazing and useless.
- The Joy of Rails - A trio of short ebooks from Jeremy McAnally.
- git-deploy - Gem to help you set up Heroku-style push deployment on your own servers.
- Gitorious 3.0 Beta 1 - New release of this system for running your own fancy git server.
- Style Matters - An argument for thinking about good coding style.
- Daux.io - Documentation generator based on Markdown files.
- Postach.io - Blogging platform powered by your Evernote documents.
- Rails 3.2.14.rc2 has been released! - New version on the 3.2 branch is coming soon.
- Still Maintained? - "A place to mark your open source project as abandoned or looking for a new maintainer."
- Regex Crossword - Learn more regex by playing games.
- FOAAS - "Fuck off as a service."
- Spectacular - BDD framework for CoffeeScript and JavaScript.
Double Shot #1161
- Introduction to Railties - From the GSoC student who's tasked with refactoring them.
- Plug: the brain of your devices - Looks like a potentially interesting way to manage personal storage.
- Arcane - Object-oriented extensions to Rails' strong parameters.
- Codio - Web IDE focusing on teaching and learning as well as web development.
- From the Front-Line #3 - Joel Moss has embarked on a daily link-dump for front-end developers.
- Shuttle - SSH shortcut menu that lives in your OS X menu bar.
Double Shot #1160
- Gutentag - Simple Rails Tagging - A new gem, written mainly for tutorial purposes, but useful in itself.
- Useful GitHub Patterns - Some ideas on ways to use social coding socially.
- The Way to Wiselinks-1.0 - A progress report on this alternative to Turbolinks.
- Upgrading Rails - A course coming up on migrating from 2.3 to 4.0.
- Riak 1.4 - New version of this NoSQL database is out. Here's a tutorial on the new counters functionality.
Double Shot #1159
- Shit for making websites. - Another good mine of links and projects.
- Groupdate.sql - SQL functions (MySQL or PostgreSQL) for grouping by dates.
- Introducing Continuous Deployment to Heroku - The latest from Travis CI.
- tiltd - Rack daemon for tilt, allowing easy serving of stuff like haml and sass files.
- Datastore API (beta) - For Dropbox, a way for developers to sync structured data.
- Nitrous.IO for Mac - Edit code locally, run it on the cloud.
- rspec-given - Adds Given/When/Then keywords to RSpec.
Double Shot #1158
- Comprehensive logging with Rails - Setting up an infrastructure using ZeroMQ.
- Lita - Extensible chatbot written in ruby.
- Adding Minitest Spec in Rails 4 - Configuring Rails to use the RSpec-like syntax in the latest Minitest.
- Can I use ST3 yet? Migrating to Sublime Text 3 - I made the jump recently and so far I'm happy with the new version.
Double Shot #1157
- Final Term - Sexy new terminal emulator for Linux.
- How to declutter your lib directory - Some thoughts on organizing Rails applications.
- py-mysql2pgsql - Best MySQL to PostgreSQL migrator I've found so far. Anyone got a better idea?
- GorillaScript - "A compile-to-JavaScript language designed to empower the user while attempting to prevent some common errors."
- KaeruEra - Bare-bones approach to error-tracking in Ruby apps.
- Exception Notification 4.0 - Latest release of this venerable library for Rails.
- Pair Programming - My Personal Nightmare and Agile for the Introvert - Some reflections on whether pair programming is for everyone.
- strong_parameters.rb - Some work at integrating rails strong parameters with CanCan.
- Decent Exposure - Ruby gem to switch from ivars to class methods in Rails controllers and views.
- List of Chromium Command Line Switches - Good heavens there are a lot of them.
Double Shot #1156
- JavascriptOO - "Every javascript project you should be looking into" and there are a bazillion of them.
- Building Firefox OS - Tools and downloads to create applications for Firefox's new mobile devices.
- Puma vs Phusion Passenger - A view from the Passenger side of things.
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