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Tuesday

02Mar2010

Double Shot #659

Tuesday, March 2, 2010 at 5:00AM

I could use at least a small slowing-down of the treadmill for a day or two.

How I reduced translation costs of 200 articles from $9000 to $46 - Second Life as an alternative to Mechanical Turk.
Notes from a production MongoDB deployment - Some detailed stories from the trenches.
Rapid prototyping with HAML, SASS and Ruby - A workflow for coming up with web site designs.
Erector - Builder-like view framework for object-oriented HTML composition.
ambitious_query_indexer - Another plugin for testing whether your Rails application needs more indexes.
Flowdock Public Beta to launch - Our team has been using this tool, and it's been working well for us.
Introducing GitHub Compare View - More analytic power from GitHub, who are clearly concentrating on feature differentiation these days.
Unobtrusive, yet explicit - Jamis Buck tries to work out a useful pattern for UJS in Rails 3.
S3Hub - Amazon S3 client for OS X.

Mike Gunderloy |

Double Shot #645

Wednesday, February 10, 2010 at 4:56AM

It's time to buckle down and deliver some code.

Plugin Authors: Toward a Better Future - I personally do not count breaking every plugin in the Rails ecosystem as "better." But if you've got a plugin that you want or need to make Rails 3 compatible, this is essential information.
Using Bundler in Real Life - Scenario-based workflows for the new Bundler gem.
jQuery with Rails 3 - How to get hooked up to the new unobtrusive javascript bits.
New Feature: Amazon S3 now supports Object Versioning - It'll be interesting to see how long it takes someone to build a blob-based SCM on top of this.
jBreadCrumb - Somewhat busy display aimed at handling deeply nested breadcrumb navigation.
FireQuery - Firebug extension for jQuery development.

Mike Gunderloy |

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Tuesday

09Feb2010

Double Shot #644

Tuesday, February 9, 2010 at 5:10AM

There's certainly no shortage of goings-on to link to lately.

Devise 1.0.0 - Major milestone for this Rack-based authentication solution for Rails.
Cloudfront: no-brainer CDN Support for S3 - I've got a couple of apps out there where I really should implement this.
Save file and reload Safari from TextMate - Passed on by Alex Heaton.
Bye Bye Github and GitHub post - Afterthoughts - Elad Meidar discusses expectations and git hosting.
SendEmail 1.56 - Command line email sending that can handle TLS (and thus Google Mail servers). Requires some perl modules.
sinatra_more - Gem to boost Sinatra to handling more complex applications.
Auto timeout sessions in Rails - Useful plugin from Matthew Bass, for the times when you need to keep people from just idling. I ended up forking it to make it use jQuery instead of Prototype.
MR.Flow - Web-based designer for MapReduce operations.
EdgeRails.info - Ryan Daigle is moving all his edge content to a fresh domain.
RubyInstaller Release Candidate 2 - 1.8.6, 1.8.7 and 1.9.1 - Useful tool for people who want to run Ruby on Windows without resorting to a virtual machine.
Savon - Ruby SOAP client that includes WSSE authentication.
Wrap your SQL head around Riak's Map-Reduce - Personally my SQL head says "no! enough already!" but I expect I'll have to learn this stuff sooner or later.
Haml Sucks for Content - Actually a good post on some advanced HAML techniques rather than another entry in the holy war.
Less.app - Autocompiler for your LESS CSS files. Well, if you have any.

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Monday

18Jan2010

The inital round of the Developer Wellwishes campaign is drawing to an end on Thursday, when we'll be combining donations with a few other campaigns to make a contribution to charity:water. If you've done your share for earthquake relief and still want to help more people out, do drop by.

Distributed Ruby with the MagLev VM - A nice look at what's going on with this alternate Ruby, which to my mind is more significant than Rubinius or MacRuby. Being able to store distributed objects with no ORM is likely to be a killer feature.
Deadweight and Helium - CSS coverage tools that can report which selectors are unused in your application.
popthis - Turn a folder of email files into a POP3 server for testing purposes.
git-googles - Git utilities for branch management and code review.
The least you should know about S3 with Rails - This stuff is all out there, but here's a one page overview.
Yaml Cookbook - Turns out Ruby's YAML support is a good deal more flexible than I had realized.
Ruby Fibonacci Shootout - MacRuby is turning out some impressive performance numbers. Too bad it can't run anything I care about yet.
has_price - DSL for organizing things like taxes, discounts, and base prices. Wish I'd had this a year ago.
cacheable - Gem that adds cacheify, which is similar to memoize but uses memcached.

Mike Gunderloy |

A Fresh Cup

Notes on Rails and other development

Entries in aws (4)

Double Shot #659

Double Shot #645

Double Shot #644

Double Shot #628