A Fresh Cup

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Wednesday

03Mar2010

Double Shot #660

Wednesday, March 3, 2010 at 6:20AM

Real viruses are as much of a nuisance to the work schedule as computer ones.

Getting Real about NoSQL and the SQL-Isn't-Scalable Lie - NoSQL has its uses, but as most people who've been around the block know, SQL is in fact scalable far beyond your puny needs.
Sinatra's Watched Repos - The Sinatra ecosystem has been growing quite a bit. Some time I need to dig in to this.
delorean - Gem to allow mocking Time.now in Ruby tests.
BlueGreenDeployment - How to manage continuous delivery without driving yourself nuts.

Mike Gunderloy |

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Monday

01Mar2010

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.