A Fresh Cup

Friday

12Mar2010

Double Shot #667

Friday, March 12, 2010 at 5:03AM

It's time to work on filling my dance card for April, just in case you were looking for an extra pair of coding hands.

Make Sure Your Rails Application is Actually Caching (and not just pretending) - Good advice as you're trying to tune performance.
markItUp! - jQuery plugin to turn textareas into markup areas.
ideone - Pastebin that also allows running code.
Rails 2 and Rails 3: So Happy Together - One solution to running both on the same box, though I think disjoint ruby environments is probably a better idea.

Thursday

11Mar2010

Thursday, March 11, 2010 at 5:38AM

Yes, it's another day, dark and rainy at that.

Try Redis - Online/in-browser demo of the redis database.
73primenumbers - I was amused.
Tarsnap - "Online backups for the truly paranoid" with the encryption happening securely on your client.
Spritely - jQuery plugin for sprite-based animations.
Drink Rails - Another Rails link blog joins the fray.
Lawnchair - Client-side JSON document store inspired by CouchDB.
happening - EventMachine based S3 client, for interactions without blocking.

Wednesday

10Mar2010

Wednesday, March 10, 2010 at 6:15AM

Cautiously putting a toe in the water of SSD-based computing.

Mac Performance Guide - "For digital photographers & performance addicts," there's plenty here for developers to chew on too.
LightMongo - Persistence layer for Mongo that doesn't try to emulate ActiveRecord.
Spoke - Another way to package up and deploy gem code with minimal configuration.
rocco - Literate programming documentation generator.
Disconnect - More discussion of Rails 3 and Bundler.

Tuesday

09Mar2010

Tuesday, March 9, 2010 at 4:12AM

And what about your need for software development?

Vagrant - Automated creation and provisioning of VirtualBox VMs.
Programmers: What To Do If You Get Fired - Giles is hawking his latest product, but it still makes for amusing reading, especially if you want to hunt a new job. Of course I'll tell you how to be happier with no job.
Bundler: Oh the fail I know - Another developer steps up to complain of the foibles of bundler.

Monday

08Mar2010

Monday, March 8, 2010 at 5:55AM

I'll just be over here in the corner, trying to write some code.

Public Beta: Deployment Stacks: You now have a choice of Debian and Ruby versions on Heroku.
Smart HTTP Transport - Interesting, setting up your own git server might get easier now.
Smack a Ho.st - Easier testing for Rails apps with subdomains.
Ruby's Metaprogramming Toolbox - An introduction.
Highlight - Syntax highlighting for Rails projects via a plugin that wraps pygments.
Stubbing and Setting Expectations on HTTP Requests Is Now Easy With WebMock - Looks like a potential alternative to fakeweb with a bit more spice.
identity-map - Simple Identity Mapper implementation for Active Record.