Posted: October 27th, 2009 | Author: robincurry | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: gems, oss, plugins, rails, ruby | Comments Off
Flashblock plugin for Firefox is a nice thing.
- bullet
A Rails plugin that will watch your queries while you develop your application and notify you when you should add eager loading (N+1 queries), when you’re using eager loading that isn’t necessary and when you should use counter cache. Cool.
- the update | gemcutter
Gemcutter (soon to be rubygems.org) will become the default gem host for the ruby community, replacing rubyforge.
- White House opens Web site coding to all
White House goes Drupal. I’m pretty sure this article was written by somebody with no clue what open source is. Some of the descriptions are nonsensical.
- Why seeding is important for random functions…
or, How to Cheat at Bejeweled.
- and another thing… – Announcing Refraction
Refraction is Rack middleware that can provide “mod_rewrite” type functionality using an easier to understand Ruby dsl. Some performance tradeoffs, but not as much as trying to use Rails routing.
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Posted: October 23rd, 2009 | Author: robincurry | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: css, design, nosql, ruby | Comments Off
Approximately 1 month until Baby 2.0 ships in my household. Unlike software releases, baby releases tend to ship on time or early. Hopefully our MOM and POP servers are ready to scale.
- Do forms work in HTML emails?
I’d always wondered about this.
- SORT in Redis
Grumble grumble, I still haven’t bought into this NOSQL thing, but in case you have…
- The IE CSS Bug Which Cost Me A Month’s Salary
A cautionary tale. Moral – be sure to test in all browsers.
- Double-Load Guards in Ruby
If you see warnings about already initialized constants, this article is for you. Good tips to avoid this problem in the future as well.
- Treating User Myopia
Jeff Atwood highlights a problem with a user not understanding how to use Markdown on one of their forum sites, misses the forest for the trees and blames the user instead of the site’s use of Markdown, and a mob forms in the comments. Ah, Friday.
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Posted: October 8th, 2009 | Author: robincurry | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: design, ruby, sinatra | Comments Off
When I was in college my motto was “Sleep is for after college.” I didn’t know about kids.
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Posted: October 1st, 2009 | Author: robincurry | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: ruby, shell, sinatra, wordpress | Comments Off
I suppose I’ll be “catching the Wave” soon. So what will we say, now? “Wave at me?” I don’t know. That just doesn’t sound right.
- Shoes-and-a-Shotgun
A quick way to develop and serve up a desktop / Sinatra application.
- railscasts_wordpress
A syntax highlighting stylesheet for ruby based on the railscast/textmate theme – for use with WordPress & the SyntaxHighlighterPlus plugin, but the developer is encouraging forks to add support for other syntax highlighters.
- Oh My Zsh gets an auto-updater
I’ve been thinking about giving ZSH a go. This looks like a nice way to get a (regularly scheduled) boost.
Popularity: 52% [?]
Posted: September 30th, 2009 | Author: robincurry | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: design, jquery, ruby | Comments Off
Glad to see improvements to Github performance after the Big Move. Hope it continues.
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Posted: September 23rd, 2009 | Author: robincurry | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: css, git, iPhone, ruby | 1 Comment »
My 82-year old grandmother is on Facebook and regularly writes and responds to status messages and wall posts. My 2.5 year old daughter can navigate my iPhone to find games she wants to play or look at pictures. These are crazy times.
- prawn – 0.5.1
A new release of Prawn is out. Looks like with the merger of prawn-grid and its advanced CSS 3 support, you have tons of new options for doing grid-based or columnar layouts in your pdfs.
- TweetStream: Ruby Access to the Twitter Streaming API
Ruby gem for receiving data from twitter via push instead of polling.
- Arial versus Helvetica
A cool graphic showing the typographic differences on individual letters between Arial and Helvetica.
- rack-chromeframe
Middleware that injects the necessary code snippets into outgoing html response to use Google Chrome Frame.
- Why Stylesheet Abstraction Matters
“CSS is the weakest link in the web developers toolbox. The problem goes deeper than CSS’s lack of variables. Unlike the “function” in programming, CSS has no fundamental building block.”
Popularity: 30% [?]
Posted: September 22nd, 2009 | Author: robincurry | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: agile, design, email, jquery, ruby, testing | Comments Off
I always enjoy attending the local Ruby user group. It’s the one place in my life where I can really let my geek flag fly and I’m not the biggest geek in the room. At last night’s tulsa.rb meeting we had wide-ranging discussions about such things as Ruby 1.9, Sinatra, Dvorak vs. QWERTY, vim, customizing the irb shell, a comparison of the Ruby, Python, and PHP communities, as well as a truly rousing discussion as to whether or not recycling was a net energy loss or gain and how to harness methane from a landfill. OSIM! (Join us next month if you are in the Tulsa area and want in on the fun)
Popularity: 40% [?]
Posted: September 17th, 2009 | Author: robincurry | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: git, jquery, ruby | Comments Off
Sigh. Two years ago Textmate was the “HAWT” editor (and not a small part of why I moved to a mac). Now all the “cool kids” are moving to vim. Color me nonplussed.
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Posted: September 15th, 2009 | Author: robincurry | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: css, design, fun, rails, ruby | 2 Comments »
I thought cloud computing was supposed to be the silver bullet for scalability. Now everybody wants to move to “real” servers. Me is confused.
Popularity: 37% [?]