Chain Links #028
Posted: September 11th, 2009 | Author: robincurry | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: jquery, oklahoma, rails, ruby, textmate, tools | Comments OffEight years, 2 home address changes, 2 office changes, 4 computers, 3 cars, 1 dog, 1 (and a half) kids, umpteen projects, countless sleepful and sleepless nights later, we still remember. I can’t remember what I had for breakfast yesterday, but I remember 9/11/2001 like it was yesterday.
- Online innovation going strong in state
Good stuff about the numerous online entrepreneurs/companies that reside or got their start in the great state of Oklahoma – including sites like Ping.fm and twitpic. - Textmate: Re-Usable Command Basics
Up your Textmate game and dive into this tutorial that shows how to really utilize Textmate and Unix to accomplish some nifty stuff. - Animate Image Filling Up Using jQuery
Incredibly cool demo. I could see some cool uses for this. - fitter_happier
A Rails plugin that adds uptime monitoring to your application. Came across this yesterday – looks interesting. More info here. - To self. or not to self.
The author discusses the merits of prefixing ruby public instance method calls with self. I tend to agree with his conclusion, but suppose I could be persuaded that it adds more noise than value.
Popularity: 28% [?]