The Ruby Reflector

Campfire

Introducing Campfire for iPhone

Ember officially became 37signals Campfire for iPhone ( iTunes App Store link). As an added bonus, we've dropped the price from $ 9.99 to $ 0.00. Campfire for iPhone is free!

Draft

Draft for iPad updated to version 1.0.1

Draft , our iPad app that lets you quickly-sketch-and-share via email or Campfire, has been updated to 1.0.1. The update is now available in the App Store. Included in this …

• Topics: Basecamp, App Store, iTunes, Unlimited, iPhone
• Travis Dunn: Web Service API Design By Example
• Developing with Style: Integrating Subversion into Basecamp and Campfire
• Effectif Development: URL shortener for Basecamp
• Riding Rails - home: Rails 3.0: Release candidate!
• Trevor Turk: Weekly Digest, 8-10-09
• Ruby Inside: The Ruby Community's Information Marketing Mania

…API with Rails which was a panel discussion with guys from Twitter, 37Signals, Github, the NYT and others. I really enjoyed that there was several distinct views on several aspects like on APIs like versioning, security, performance which relates exactly with some customer work I'm currently doing.

Then I went to the Metrics Magic by Aaron Bedra from Relevance which cover tools like RCov, Flog, Flay, Roodi, Reek and how to integrate them with your continuous …

• Topics: Ruby on Rails, Railsconf, Hashrocket, RCov, Ilya
• The Majestic Sea Creature: BohConf: The Best Ruby Conference Ever
• Global Nerdy: Getting Paid to Work for Ballmer is Pretty Nice
• Intridea - Company Blog: Intrideans at RailsConf 2010
• The Life Of A Radar: The Rails 2.3.x Release Process
• Jake Scruggs: Rails Conf 2010 Tutorial Day
• Envy Labs: Railsconf Rails 3 Tutorials

Campfire

Introducing Campfire for iPhone

Ember officially became 37signals Campfire for iPhone ( iTunes App Store link). As an added bonus, we've dropped the price from $ 9.99 to $ 0.00. Campfire for iPhone is free!

Draft

Draft for iPad updated to version 1.0.1

Draft , our iPad app that lets you quickly-sketch-and-share via email or Campfire, has been updated to 1.0.1. The update is now available in the App Store. Included in this …

• Topics: Basecamp, App Store, iTunes, Unlimited, iPhone
• Travis Dunn: Web Service API Design By Example
• Developing with Style: Integrating Subversion into Basecamp and Campfire
• Effectif Development: URL shortener for Basecamp
• Riding Rails - home: Rails 3.0: Release candidate!
• Trevor Turk: Weekly Digest, 8-10-09
• Ruby Inside: The Ruby Community's Information Marketing Mania

Here are the top 20 Signal vs. Noise posts of 2009 ranked by number of page views. (Posting will be slow until the new year.) Thanks to everyone for reading!

PRESS RELEASE : 37SIGNALS VALUATION TOPS $ 100 BILLION AFTER BOLD VC INVESTMENT

Hulu CEO : "We screwed up royally"

Now that's advertising. Leather Creations Furniture.

The next generation bends over

Get Satisfaction, Or Else... and Follow-up on " Get Satisfaction, Or Else..."

• Topics: Sony, Windows 7, 37Signals, Get Satisfaction, UI

…the Rails landscape. Featured speakers at RailsConf 2010 included Michael Feathers of Object Mentor, Inc., David Heinemeier Hansson of 37signals, Yehuda Katz of Engine Yard, Inc., Bob Martin of Object Mentor, Inc., Derek Sivers of Thoughts, Ltd., and Gary Vaynerchuk of VaynerMedia...

• Topics: Ruby on Rails, Baltimore, Railsconf, Sebastopol, O 'Reilly Media
• The Majestic Sea Creature: BohConf: The Best Ruby Conference Ever
• the evolving ultrasaurus: full text search on app engine
• Intridea - Company Blog: Intridea Insider: Michael Bleigh
• Jake Scruggs: Rails Conf 2010 Tutorial Day
• RailsLab: Yehuda Katz & Justin George Talk Rails 3
• The Life Of A Radar: The Rails 2.3.x Release Process

…Operations Manager at 37signals at DevOpsDays. 37signals is the successful developer of project management and collaboration tools founded by David Heinemeier Hansson and Jason Fried, based in Chicago. In this interview with Mike Malloy, Mark shares some background on his role at 37signals managing the availability and performance of their popular suite of SaaS tools through a period of rapid growth over the past few years. Mark discusses how his team works with the development …

• Topics: Manager, Chicago, Maya, Operations, SaaS
• Signal vs. Noise: This week in Twitter
• Signal vs. Noise: Who would win in a fight between Erlang and Rails?
• Trevor Turk: Weekly Digest, 2-1-10
• A Fresh Cup: Double Shot #551
• Intridea - Company Blog: In Memory of Zigzag Chen
• Momoro Machine: Revisiting the hidden cost of features

…when running Chef server under Unicorn. Thanks to Joshua Sierles of 37signals for his help troubleshooting this issue. (Ticket)

Erik Kastner found an issue where Chef was too strict checking the exit status of the chkconfig command when starting a service for the first time. Thanks, Erik! (ticket)

Marek found and fixed a bug in the retry logic for committing a completed cookbook upload.

Peter Struijk discovered an issue where Chef was unable to find template …

• Topics: Chef, Node, Template, Version, Release Notes
• English - AkitaOnRails.com: From Solo to Full Chef
• Ruby Inside: Vagrant: EC2-Like Virtual Machine Building and Provisioning from Ruby
• Engine Yard Ruby on Rails Blog: Custom Chef Recipes with Engine Yard Cloud
• Labnotes: Necktie: dress to impress
• BenCurtis.com: Sphinx, Chef and EY Cloud
• SD Ruby Podcast: Episode 067: Cooking up a Cloud (with Chef & EC2)

Draft's killer feature, however, is integration with 37 Signals' own chat app, Campfire . Through a sharing button you're two taps away from posting the image instantly in a Campfire chat room — and if you use Campfire as extensively as we do at thoughtbot, this feature will blow your mind. Draft is all about communicating ideas quickly, and if you think of it as a portable, miniature dry erase board you will be satisfied.

Pros: Task oriented approach, excellent …

• Topics: Ideas™, Adobe Systems, Sketchbook Pro, Draft, UI
• GIANT ROBOTS SMASHING INTO OTHER GIANT ROBOTS: How To: Take Notes Like a Champ
• Giles Bowkett: iPad!
• Nullcreations.net: Fixing OpenSSL Certificates on OS X
• Developing with Style: Integrating Subversion into Basecamp and Campfire
• terrbear.org: PeepingTom now ogling your Campfire
• Alex Young: Future of Web Design Notes

…Last book this week would be "Rework". I liked it a lot. It's nice to have all things 37signals talk about in one place.

6. If someone wrote a biography about you - what would be the title?

K: " The most boring story ever. Don't read it unless you're forced to". Both inviting and provocative

M: " Super awesome rainbow unicorns with shotguns" . Therefore I'm glad no one

has written one yet.

7. If you could have superpowers, …

• Topics: Programmer, Series, Ruby on Rails, Television, Hollywood

Campfire plugin was obnoxious to figure out. Not sure why they ship a broken one, but the custom one from GitHub works great.

Unfortunately, I couldn't figure out how to make GitHub's post-receive URLs trigger a build. It worked with a GET request, but POST requests seem to need some special authentication. Hudson has a cron-job style SCM polling, so that works instead.

Lots of clicking around to configure everything, my vim-senses are tingling for a command line interface. …

• Topics: Hudson, GitHub, SCM, Apache HTTP Server, RVM
• The Queue Blog: Link dump for June 22nd
• Pathfinder Development: Rails DateTime.to_time, Time, and a case of ‘Why do you need to do that?'
• Giles Bowkett: Coyotes, A Pulitzer, And DHH's Lamborghini
• terrbear.org: Pivotal Pulse and Integrity
• Think in code - Home: Ruby Metrics plugin for Hudson
• a work on process: Weekend Links