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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Notes on Rails and other development

Tuesday
Apr092013

Double Shot #1103

  • csscss - Scanner to parse CSS files for duplicated declarations.
  • An HTTP reverse proxy for realtime - Introducing Pushpin, a proxy with special features for streaming and related use cases.
  • Mackup - Synchronize developer tool settings on multiple Macs via Dropbox.
  • Writerrific - Markdown editing directly in the browser.
  • hull - "Social platform as a service."
  • CocoaDocs - "Hosted Docs for Objective-C Libraries."
  • Hoodie - Framework for frontend-only web apps with lots of magic baked in.
  • Firepad - Open source real-time collaborative text editor.
Monday
Apr082013

What's New in Edge Rails #64

Week of April 1 - April 7, 2013

  • 274a3aa6 removes a lot of user-facing complexity from cookies. Now Rails will automatically pick the best cookie jar, and upgrade legacy signed cookies to encrypted cookies.
  • A bunch of work in speeding up tests and a switch back from 'rails test' to 'rake test' are merged at 91efe395.
Monday
Apr082013

Double Shot #1102

Friday
Apr052013

Double Shot #1101

Thursday
Apr042013

Double Shot #1100

  • happy-plan - Static site generator using jekyll, compass, fontcustom, and grunt, among other tooling.
  • Coveralls - Code coverage as a service.
  • Stop working (so hard) - I agree that you need to know when to take a break. I'm less convinced that 35 hours is the magic maximum for everyone.
  • Codepen - Nice-looking HTML/CSS/JS playground.
  • Shoulda Matchers 2.0 - Changes consist mostly of removing things to keep it light.
  • Routing and Performance on Heroku: a FAQ: Extensive discussion from Heroku of recent poerformance issues and what they're doing about it.