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There are times that I wish our kids would learn to sleep in.
- Get Started with Django - Webmonkey has the goods.
- Pretty Blocks in Rails Views - Some ways to make your code more elegant.
- ActionWebService is Back - And updated for Rails 2.1.0.
- Cornerstone - New Subversion UI for OS X. (via TUAW)
Managed to spot a few things even though I spent the day in bed being sick…
- Subversion 1.5 - It’s heresy, I know, but I prefer Subversion to git.
- Subdomain Fu - A New Way to Tame the Subdomain - Within Rails applications, of course.
It’s off to the Red Cross for me again today.
- Pool Party - Ruby gem to manage load balancing and failover with Amazon EC2 instances.
- Ylastic - Another AWS management suite, “coming soon.”
- Versions - Subversion client for OS X, now out in beta.
The joy of independence: trying to nail down an elusive contract. There might be room in my dance card coming up in the future if you’re interested in talking.
- Living on the edge (of Rails) #5 - better eager loading and more - This series continues to be the best way to keep up with developments in Edge Rails without actually installing the software yourself.
- Beanstalk - Hosted Subversion system with hooks to FogBugz, Basecamp, and Campfire. Been around for a bit but just now crossed my radar.
- ActiveMerchant PDF - The latest print publication from PeepCode, covering e-commerce in Rails.
- RailsConf ‘08: Registration is open! - Sure enough, it is.
My Matias Tactile Pro 2.0 keyboard arrived and it rocks. I may never use the high-speed USB port or the special symbols on the keycaps but the key action is great.
- Instant Rails 2.0 Released on RubyForge - The latest bits for easy test-driving on Windows. Think of this as sort of a “Live CD” for Rails.
- Installing Postgres 8.2 on Leopard (includes system account!) - Creating a system account on Leopard is absurdly difficult.
- ProFTPD - Looks like I’m going to spend some quality time learning ProFTPD configuration, since it can do extremely loose coupling (via shared database table) authentication with other applications.
- Lingon - Nice little GUI for managing Leopard launchd files. Yeah, if I was a real developer I’d use some primitive command-line text editor for this.
- Wondering if Subversion is Good Enough - Larry O’Brien is ready to stop recommending Subversion due to its quirks and annoyances. I get annoyed too, but on the other side, I have to weigh the SVN ecosystem; it’s integrated with a bunch of other things I’m using right now. So far nothing is compelling enough to switch.
- Rolling with Rails 2.0 - The First Full Tutorial - An update of the classic weblog tutorial to show off the new Rails 2.0 features.
I spent most of yesterday learning about RSpec. Fun stuff, even if I can’t get the TextMate integration to work yet.
- A Meme I’d Like To Crush - Greg Wilson, who actually knows a thing or two on the subject, discusses the current swooning over Erlang ’cause it’s so parallelizable.
- Merb 0.4.2 released. - Just as I get interested, they push out a new version. The difference between open source software and a red queen’s race would be? (That’s a trick question.)
- RSpec 1.1 - A significant release of the latest piece of software that I’m trying to spend quality time with.
- Campfire Notifier for Cruise Control - I’m not actually using either Campfire or Cruise Control anywhere at the moment, but if I was, this would be cool.
- Using Git with SVN - All of a sudden I’m seeing a lot of references to using git for source code control instead of svn. Looks like it’s reasonably possible to bridge the two.
- Updating RubyGems and Rails in Leopard - I wonder if this would cure some of the versionitis I’m having on one of my dev boxes. Probably not, because I think I compiled everything from source on that box in the first place.
- GoogleCharts - I figured someone would wrap up the new Google Charting API in a nice gem for Ruby & Rails. I wasn’t disappointed.
- Using SSH Agent With Mac OS X Leopard - Came in handy for me as I switched over to letting Leopard be my ssh agent.
- Google Maps API Icon Shadowmaker - This is going to come in handy on the site where I’m using Google Maps for a client.
- BitNami - Pre-packaged install stacks for a lot of open source apps across a variety of operating systems. They have a Ruby and Rails package that provides an alternative to Instant Rails. (via Anthony Eden)
- jrubyhub.com - More JRuby resources than you can shake a stick at.
Now that I’m back to writing Rails code daily, it’s all starting to make sense to me. Well, almost. Just in time for a new version!
- Rails 2.0 - it’s landed - Looks like a release announcement is imminent.
- Redirecting nginx to Tomcat. - Somehow I hope never to have to do this. Most of the Rails deployment stack is still a black art to me, even though I’ve managed to set it up successfully a few times. A failing, I know.
- MacSanta - A dangerous site to watch if you have a relatively new Mac and like utilities. 20% discounts on different vendors’ software every day until Christmas. They have an RSS feed too.
- SVNMate - Subversion integration directly in the TextMate file tree. (via Softies on Rails)
Always nice to wake up to email from a client saying “by the way, we’re demoing the site tomorrow, here’s a sudden list of changes we’d like made.”
- ZigVersion - Subversion UI for Mac. Haven’t tried it but saw some Twitter-friends say good things about it.
Moving is such a huge pain in the arse. Let’s wallow in links for a few minutes to avoid thinking about it.
- Webistrano - Web UI for managing Capistrano deployments, including complex scenarios, with tracking and history.
- Why not ASP.Net? - Another Microsoft refugee sums up reasons for not using the ASP.NET platform.
- RM-Install - New Rails stack installer (Mac/Linux at the moment) from FiveRuns and BitRock that looks like it covers just about everything you need to get cooking.
- The Rails Edge: Quotes and Notes - A batch of amusing conference one-liners.
- scplugin - Finder-integrated Subversion for the Mac. Haven’t tried it yet.
We’re trying to prep our house to put it on the market. This sucks down a great deal of time, and explains why posting may be spottier than usual for a little bit.
- How to Create Many to Many Relationships in Ruby on Rails - One of the basic skills, but it does point out creating the join table, which is easy to miss the first time you set up such a relationship. (via dzone)
- Haml 1.7 has been released! - Alternative markup language for Rails views. Lots of perf work in the last few releases, so it’s becoming a more viable alternative, at that.
- Using Omnigraffle to visualise Rails model associations - I could have used this about a week before I found it, since I spent a big chunk of that week drawing ERDs to understand a pile of existing Rails models. This one uses code to reflect over the models and build ERDs automatically.
- Warehouse Subversion Browser Released! - This is the SVN browser in Rails from the ActiveReload folks. Now available for a one-time $30 fee.
- Replacing Ant With Rake - Here’s how you can call all your ant tasks as if they were rake tasks, and so switch to rake for ongoing maintenance of your ant files.
Woo, starting another consulting job today, without a speck of MS stuff in sight. I feel all vindicated and stuff.
- iStat Menus - There are about a million different Mac system monitors out there. This one is free and doesn’t take up screen real estate when you don’t want it to.
- VSS to SVN: Part 3 - This tutorial for source code control switchers continues.
- Ruby on Rails EC2 ‘Appliance’ - Practically turnkey Rails deployment to the Amazon server cloud. (via Ruby Insie)
- Sake Bomb - Sake is system-wide Rake. Looks like it still has some warts, but is already useful
Why “Double Shot”? Why not? My daily links column over at Larkware is called “Daily Grind,” so somehow that just seems to fit. Well, at least as much as anything fits.
- Shiny new Subversion and Trac cluster - The Rails team has just gotten a server upgrade, and having checked out a new Edge tree last night, I can confirm that it’s a whole lot faster. There’s also a change of URL for the Rails Subversion repository, though the old URL will continue to work. Here’s some info on switching an existing checkout to point to the new URL.
- Streamlined 0.0.7.1 - I blinked and missed the announcement a few days ago, but the plugin version of this tool for building spiffy Rails views is out now.
- Show database migration versions with Rake - A simple Rake task to pull the current version out of the database. I imagine this could be useful in a busy shop with multiple devs writing migrations.
- Site5 Deployment Problems with Capistrano > 1.2 - A fix to some mystery Capistrano permissions problems. I think it’s a feature, but this could still be pretty helpful if you hit the same situation.
- Getting Started with Subversion on OS X - Ben Wong has some basic information.
Found this one via Mike Clark’s article on Piston. Subtlety takes the URL of a public Subversion repository and creates an RSS feed of changes for you, so you can monitor what’s going on with that project. A sweet way to have one less place on the net that you have to visit, and one more piece of information in your own hands whenever you want it.
Piston lets you have your cake and eat it too by making it easy to manage bits of external Subversion repositories in your local repository.
