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Monday

08Mar2010

Double Shot #663

Monday, March 8, 2010 at 5:55AM

I'll just be over here in the corner, trying to write some code.

Public Beta: Deployment Stacks: You now have a choice of Debian and Ruby versions on Heroku.
Smart HTTP Transport - Interesting, setting up your own git server might get easier now.
Smack a Ho.st - Easier testing for Rails apps with subdomains.
Ruby's Metaprogramming Toolbox - An introduction.
Highlight - Syntax highlighting for Rails projects via a plugin that wraps pygments.
Stubbing and Setting Expectations on HTTP Requests Is Now Easy With WebMock - Looks like a potential alternative to fakeweb with a bit more spice.
identity-map - Simple Identity Mapper implementation for Active Record.

Mike Gunderloy |

Double Shot #658

Monday, March 1, 2010 at 5:08AM

New months always hold so much promise.

Warehouse -"A Web-based subversion browser that doesn't suck."
Garbage Collection Slides from LA Ruby Conference - A good intro to a tough ruby topic, with pointers to some useful utilities.
Great CS Program for GIrls Needs Funding - Another good cause that could use some of your hard-earned dollars.
Using Sinatra to test remote services in Rails - Another testing idea from Elad Meidar.
Canable: The Flesh Eating Permission System - John Nunemaker's take on authorization. Looks fairly similar to the way I've been handling it recently.
rails_indexes - I think I mentioned this plugin for finding missing indexes before, but it came in handy this weekend so I'm mentioning it again.
Support Details - A way to quickly query a user's machine for things like OS, Browser, IP address, and color depth.
Migrations with Mongo (and MongoMapper) - Otherwise known as "mongrations".
Lesson from Madlibs Signup Fad: Do Your Own Tests - Amen.

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.

Mike Gunderloy |

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auto_timeout,

aws,

css,

devise,

haml,

mapreduce,

rails,

riak,

ruby,

savon,

sinatra,

textmate

Monday

25Jan2010

Double Shot #633

Monday, January 25, 2010 at 6:16AM

It was a busy weekend - apparently for other people as well as for me.

couch.io - Managed hosting and support for CouchDB.
UTC vs Ruby, ActiveRecord, Sinatra, Heroku and Postgres - Some notes on time zones in ruby web apps.
SSL Certificate Check - From DigiCert, but works for any SSL site. A fast way to tell whether you have things configured and installed correctly.
Rapid Application Deployment with Git - Nice new workflow from from Webbynode. I need to dust off my Webbynode account and play with this.
pgtune - Automatic configuration tuning utility for PostgreSQL.
Active Record Query Interface 3.0 - Shiny new finders for Rails 3.
jQuery QueryString Plugin - Came in handy for hooking up Rails controller methods and stuff inside the jQuery.
Getting Up to Speed with Rails 3 - Detailed look at moving over an existing Rails application.
jQuery.sheet - Excel-ish spreadsheet implemented in jQuery.
Git Branch Auto-Tracking - Useful tip from Mike Champion.
MySQL Tip: How To Check, Repair & Optimize All Tables in All Databases - I never knew about mysqlcheck, but now that I do I'll likely be using it again.
murder - Deployment via BitTorrent, courtesy of Twitter. Cute idea, but the number of sites that need this is vanishingly small.

Mike Gunderloy |

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Wednesday

20Jan2010

Double Shot #630

Wednesday, January 20, 2010 at 6:56AM

jQuery Lint - Script to report incorrect usage of jQuery APIs.
kumofs - A fresh distributed key-value store for Ruby.
Code Blocks: Ruby's Swiss Army Knife - An excerpt from the Ruby Best Practices book.
JavaScript grid editor: I want to be Excel - A big survey of grids available for jQuery and others.
ThinkingSphinx exits, enters ActsAsSolrReloaded - The competition between search libraries for web applications will never end.
How many Ruby Hackers does it take to change a lightbulb? - Lots.

Mike Gunderloy |

A Fresh Cup

Notes on Rails and other development

Entries in ruby (9)

Double Shot #663

Double Shot #658

Double Shot #644

Double Shot #633

Double Shot #630