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Switching an app from solr to ferret today…and crossing my fingers.
- Freeconomics Part I - or who is paying for your Free lunch? - Some basic economic analysis from Broadstuff that ought to be more obvious to those who claim there’s no bubble going on.
- RSpec waving ‘bye bye’ to implicit module inclusion - News of a change coming that will break RSpec compatibility.
- Download Day -The latest silly Firefox promotional stunt.
- Announcing non-profit Hobo Foundation - Looks like the Hobo additions to Rails have some money behind them now.
- TuneUp - New site/plugin from FiveRuns that sends perf information from your Rails site to a community discussion board (you choose which info to show) so others can help you troubleshoot. More info here.
Solr is not playing nice in deployment. Ugh.
- Kete 1.0 - Open source digital library (sort of wiki + CMS) built in Rails.
- Rails Security Audit - The latest PDF from PeepCode.
- Pragmatic Screencasts - A new place to look for screencasts on dynamic languages.
I am convinced I am going to will the remaining unfixed bugs on one project to my heirs. Time to buckle down for another pass at them, I guess.
- RSpec-1.1.4 - Another maintenance release with a few new bits of syntactic sugar.
- Google-served JavaScript Libraries - You can now host your Prototype and Scriptaculous bits (among others) on Google’s servers.
- Sample OpenID application updated for latest Rails and OpenID gem - Ben Curtis continues to make life easy for folks who want to let folks use OpenID with Rails apps.
I need to get some MySQL ETL going to build a datamart. Looks like I can choose from Clover.ETL, Enhydra Octopus, or Apatar. Anyone used any of those?
- GitHub and TextMate Unite - Another TextMate bundle from Dr. Nic.
- 21 Ruby Tricks You Should Be Using in Your Own Code - Some medium to advanced idioms from Peter Cooper.
- SyncSql - SAAS site to synchronize a pair of MySQL databases.
Theoretically a holiday in the States today. Given the amount of “rush rush” work on my plate, I’ll take a rain check on that.
- Community Engine - Add social networking features via a Rails plugin. (via Ruby Inside)
- Content Generation and the Law - A quick survey from Eric Goldman. Worth reading before you try to come up with a glib answer to Twitter’s recent TOS/stalking issues. (via Denise Howell)
- 28 mod_rails/Passenger Resources to Help You Deploy Rails Applications Faster - Great roundup from Peter Cooper. I wonder if I want to tackle this on one of my servers.
- The Return of Rails Components - Another scheme for adding interchangeable functionality to Rails apps.
- YAML 1.2 Ensconces and Envelopes JSON - A new draft for the next YAML spec is out.
- Useful JavaScript: textCounter - Show the number of characters remaining in a text input. Where was this when I needed it?
- Living on the Edge (of Rails) #22 - The big news this time is that all the tests for Rails now pass in Ruby 1.9.
- ClipboardSharing - Free utility for folks with multiple Macs.
- Spike - Clipboard sharing with multiple clips and clipboards for OS X or Windows. Not free, but at $7 and down per copy it looks worth paying for.
Working on two site launches, tidying up code…life is busy & interesting. I just wish I could get away from the sysadmin nonsense.
- Firebug 1.2b1 - The new version (suitable for FF3) just moved up from alpha. Get it here.
- AT&T Coverage Viewer - Take a peek here if the siren song of iPhone 2.0 is already calling to you. Alas, AT&T appears no more interested in bringing 3G to Evansville than Sprint is. What the heck, there are only 300K folks in the area.
Worn out from yesterday’s trip to Holiday World. Hoping today’s huge pile of work is more relaxing.
- Real World CSRF: Update Your Radiant Now - A good reason to move up to the most recent version of Radiant.
A rare day off for me today, taking kids to the amusement park. Back at it tomorrow, assuming I survive.
- Ask Your Doctor About mod_rails - Topfunky reports generally positive experiences.
- Roroni - That’s “Ruby on Rails on System i”. Who knew?
- GitCasts - Screencasts to teach you how to use git.
No matter how well things were running before, the deployment always reveals new teething pains. I suppose some of this is a process issue.
- Karelia iMedia Browser - Cute little file management doohickey for OS X.
- Textmate Gem - A new way to manage Textmate bundles.
It’s school vacation week around here, so I’m looking forward to writing plenty of code.
- Firefox 3 (Release Candidate) Release Notes - If you’ve been holding off upgrading, this is a good time to go for it.
- Cloud Studio - Another tool for managing Amazon Web Services instances.
- A Hodel 3000 Compliant Logger for the Rest of Us - Old stuff, but I’m bookmarking here so I can find it again. Good info on basic perf monitoring for Rails apps.
- Rails on Rubinius - A milestone achieved. (via Ezra Zygmuntowicz)
- Key Rollover - Instructions for recovering from last week’s giant Debian security cock-up.
- Debian OpenSSL Predictable PRNG Toys - In fact, you can even download handy lists of all the valid keys from the bad versions of Debian. Lovely.
- WindyCityRails - Rails conference in Chicago in September. I’m thinking about it.
Man, I hate site teething pains.
- acts_as_soft_deletable - New alternative to acts_as_paranoid.
- Reactive - Ruby MVC framework for desktop applications.
- Paperclip Tips and Updates - News about this file attachment handler for Rails, now with S3 baked in.
- Palmist - Tool for finding and fixing MySQL bottlenecks in Rails applications.
A pretty quiet day in my corner of the Rails universe.
Deploying with Capistrano via a gateway - Chu Yeow sorts a few things out. I have one project where this would be useful, except that they are stuck on an older Capistrano due to inertia.
Looks like another back burner project is heating up again. The rest of the week may be pretty busy.
- Load Balancing & QOS with HAProxy - More fancy Rails serving. If I ever hire again, I’m going to be looking for a sysadmin/ops guy (or gal!) first.
- FiveRuns Manage 2.0 - Now in Public Beta - Another solution for monitoring the entire Rails stack.
- Ubuntu 8.04 Rails Server Using Passenger, Part 2 - More setup fu.
Had a nice spike of learning about in-place editing yesterday. I’m not yet convinced this is a good UI.
- JSSpec - BDD for Javascript.
- Adventures in Javascript Testing - Slides from Thomas Fuchs.
- editable_content_tag: The in_place_editor for Rails 2.0 - With tweaks to play nice with RESTful resources.
- Ruby On Rails Domains for Sale - railssolutions.com and rubyonrailssolutions.com are on the market.
Finally got the multi-file upload feature I’ve been wrassling with working. Hopefully this means I can move on to something else soon.
- Widgetfinger - CMS that is designed to automate as much as possible of very small sites.
- LiveHTTPHeaders - Header-monitoring add-in for Firefox. I honestly like ieHTTPHeaders better from a UI point of view - but not enough better to use IE.
- Living on the Edge (of Rails) #20 - Things are moving slowly in edge Rails at the moment.
- Huba Huba - Tidbits for advanced GitHub use. Man, I just can’t keep up with the kids these days.
- Rails 2.1 RC1 - Beans spilled via Twitter.
- Prototype 1.6 PDF - Printable documentation for this javascript library.
- Firefox 3 Release Candidate 1 Code Complete - I’ve been using the nightly builds. They’ve stabilized vastly in the last couple of weeks.
- Merbunity - Community site for merb news and tutorials.
- TextMate Bundles for Merb - News from Dr. Nic.
And now I’m mired in Javascript. Lucky me.
- Introducing Resourceful Views 0.1 - A set of helpers and conventions to make writing forms using resources even less verbose.
This multi upload UI is slowly coming together. Though if it were me, I’d talk the client out of wanting to see progress meters in a Rails app.
- Mongrel Upload Progess Plugin - One of the better-looking solution for upload progress callbacks. The problem is that it locks you into Mongrel.
- Ubuntu 8.04 Rails Server Using Passenger - A setup guide, with part 2 to come.
- In-place file upload with Ruby on Rails - The GMail technique for asynchronous uploads.
A very busy day looms. But first, a few links.
- Multiple file uploads with Ruby on Rails and file_column - One of the more useful things I’ve found on the issues, though it doesn’t quite match the current requirements.
- Responds to Parent - This may be another bit required to get multi-file uploads working: a way to send AJAX responses back from an IFRAME to its parent.
- El Dorado 0.9.2 - Another generalized bit of community software written in Rails.
Next I need to dig into multiple file uploads for a Rails app. This may or may not be fun.
- HoboFields - Rails migration generator that lets you annotate models instead of writing your own migratios. (via Ruby Inside)
- Announcing: Feather - Merb-based blogging software.
- Introducing the uses_connection plugin: Intended to let multiple Rails apps use the same database.
- Rails development for iPhone with rails-iui - Plugin to make some of the required styling and plumbing simpler.
Working with a poorly-configured server all weekend. Hope to do something more fun today.
- Capistrano 2.3.0 - More incentive to switch some of those old projects over to the 2.x series. Maybe I can get around to that next week.
- Rails Endless Page Plugin - Eliminate scrolling a la Google Reader. (via Pete Forde)
- Avoid Using Metaprogramming (Seriously!) - Or at least realize that clever code sometimes has a speed cost.
- Living on the Edge (of Rails) #19 - The latest changes. With 2.1 about to release, things are getting nailed down, it looks like.
Looks like work hours are going to heat up next week. Meanwhile I need to find time to put together the giant play structure for the kids. Hooray for flexible hours.
- Acts_as_quickbooks_model - Another Rails plugin that I might need soon.
- New Relic - These folks got a burst of press coverage yesterday for their Rails performance-monitoring solution, even though they’re not shipping yet and there are others in the niche already out. The power of a good press release and good contacts wins again.
