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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Thursday
May172012

Double Shot #882

New staging server held hostage by bacteria. Bah.

  • lolcommits - Take a snapshot with your webcam every time you make a code commit. The rise of developer narcissism continues.
  • SASS vs. LESS - Long comparison of these two CSS preprocessors. SASS comes out on top, but both are good.
  • flotr2 - HTML 5 graphing library with lots of nifty examples.
  • Node.js Is Bad Ass Rock Star Tech - 5 minutes of poking fun at hipster rockstar programmers. "You are the reason science was set back a thousand years."
  • rspec-rails-uncommitted - Rake tasks to run specs for all uncommitted, unpushed, or unmerged files in your project.
  • Devise Async - Send Devise emails using Resque, Sidekiq, or DJ.
  • SourceNinja - Monitor your software to know when there are patches available to the bits you depend on.
  • SheetMapper - Connect spreadsheet rows to ruby objects.
  • Feeds - Get notifications from GitHub, Basecamp, Trello and other services in your Mac menu bar.

Reader Comments (3)

Hi, I'm a fan of your weblog, and read all double shots, they are really useful.
I'm interested in how you can find all this good information?

May 17, 2012 | Unregistered Commenterhalida

I read a ton of RSS feeds, chat with people on Twitter, keep an eye on a few key sites, and get stuff directly via email. Mostly it's a matter of letting the internet wash over me and grabbing a few things as they go by.

May 18, 2012 | Registered CommenterMike Gunderloy

hehe, you are doing a great job Mike.

Just don't let the Interwebs drown you :)

May 18, 2012 | Unregistered CommenterStjernstrom

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