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A Fresh Cup is Mike Gunderloy's software development weblog, covering Ruby on Rails and whatever else I find interesting in the universe of software. I'm a full-time Rails developer and contributor, available for long- or short-term consulting, with solid experience in working as part of a distributed team. If you'd like to hire me, drop me a line. I'm also the author of Rails Rescue Handbook and Rails Freelancing Handbook.

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Saturday
07Nov2009

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DateSaturday, November 7, 2009 at 02:15AM
If you're seeing this, you're visiting A Fresh Cup in its new home on Squarespace. Though I've been on WordPress's hosted system for several years, I draw the line at having my host insert affiliate javascript in my blog that screws up navigation shortcuts. So, off to a new host. The migration was pretty painless, and though I'm sure there will be teething pains for a bit, I hope you stick around while I get things tidied up. The content is what matters, right?
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Saturday
07Nov2009

Double Shot #578

DateSaturday, November 7, 2009 at 02:12AM
Up for my first manic burst of work for the day.
  • DailyJS - A roundup of JavaScript stuff from Alex Young, Ric Roberts, and Justin Knowlden. It's off to a promising start.
  • Fixtures without validation with Factory Girl - Nice idea for generating bad data in a concise and repeatable way.
  • fast_fixture - Develop with MyISAM, test with InnoDB. Seems a bit iffy but should definitely speed up the tests.
  • shoulda-addons - Test profiling and color-coded test names for Shoulda.
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Wednesday
04Nov2009

Double Shot #577

DateWednesday, November 4, 2009 at 11:25PM
I'm starting to feel like a sleep deprivation experiment. Good thing other people are writing good software still.

  • Devise: authentication for lazy programmers - Lots of activity in this project lately.

  • Gity - New git client for OS X. Early days yet, free at the moment. Looks like the goal is to give us menu/keystroke replacements for much of the git command line.

  • Integrity 0.2.0 - New release for this continuous integration server with (among other things) hooks to GitHub, Heroku, and Campfire.

  • PagerDuty - Switchboard for all your email notifications, with multi-user duty shifts, phone and SMS notification, and more. Looks pretty useful if you're the one who has to scramble to respond to sites being down.

  • Bluepill: a new process monitoring tool - Designed for simplicity and lack of memory leaks. If you're fed up with god and monit it looks worth a try.

  • Help John recover - Rails dev John Lannon got shot in a robbery, and the community is collecting funds to help support him durign his recovery.
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Wednesday
04Nov2009

Double Shot #576

DateWednesday, November 4, 2009 at 01:42AM
Today's challenge: Ziya Charts. If I'm not back tomorrow, I lost.

  • Mockingbird: New Cappucino-based wireframing tool. iPlotz and MockFlow are two other tools in this space (was just looking into this for a client yesterday).

  • First look at rails 3.0.pre - Dr. Nic dives into getting started and using generators.

  • Introducing Resque - The GitHub guys have built a new redis-backed background job library. Given some of the recent experiences I've had with their background jobs, I'm not all that sure the kinks are out yet.

  • Thinking_Sphinx - Easy Setup Tutorial - Quick start from Philip Ingram.
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Tuesday
03Nov2009

Double Shot #575

DateTuesday, November 3, 2009 at 12:20AM
Thanks to everyone who commiserated about my pinched nerve issues. I think I'm still a fair way from death's door.

  • jQuery Grid Rails Plugin - I keep meaning to look at the jQuery datagrid. Maybe this will encourage me.

  • gdb.rb - gdb7 hooks for MRI. A fresh way to be nosy about running ruby code.
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