Esbit - Lightweight gem to interact with the Campfire API.
5 Things You Should Stop Doing with jQuery - Avoid Document Ready, among others.
Phones for Apps for Firefox OS - Mozilla is giving away phones to entice app developers.
Does MultiJson introduce slowness? - Looks like we may see some rapid movement towards native Json in Ruby now.
RubyMotion Goes 2.0 And Gets OSX Support, Templates and Plugins - Lots of new goodies …
- Labnotes: Rounded Corners 426 — The Big O
…months - and the corresponding three releases -we've added improved logging to the agent, a new API method to control Real User Monitoring ( RUM) on a per-page basis and an improved installer. But that's not all! The two big features are Cross Application Tracing ( CAT) and beta support for Azure Web Sites! All the release details can be found on our release page .
Cross Application Tracing
For those of you with multi-tier, SOA-style architectures, …
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- Lindsay Holmwood - auxesis' musings: Instrumenting your monitoring checks with New Relic
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- A Fresh Cup: Double Shot #623
We have some cool plans to improve the wrappers API even further, but that's subject for another blog post .
Responders
Responders has been around for quite some time already and we use it in most of our projects, so today we're celebrating its 1.0 release candidate version, specially to support Rails 4.
Show For
Show For just got a new stable release, v0.2.6, with all the enhancements and bug fixes that were in master, plus a v0.3.0 rc version that adds Rails 4 support. …
- A Fresh Cup: Double Shot #1126
- Giles Bowkett: How I Understand Ember's MVC
- New Relic: Making the Move to Rails 3
- Hobo Blog: Hobo 2.0.0 released!
- Phusion Corporate Blog: Rails SQL injection vulnerability: hold your horses, here are the facts
- mir.aculo.us: Embedding Canvas and SVG charts in emails
…by James Golick and Joe Damato, who want to talk about things concrete, not like that Hacker News BS.
I'd love to see the API: The idea we live in a simulation isn't science fiction . Magic anyone?
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We're also finalizing plans to bring the Chef 11′s new API server, erchef, to Hosted Chef in the coming weeks. erchef has been proven in demanding environments such as Facebook and Cycle Computing ‘s on-demand compute clusters.
Bringing erchef to Hosted Chef is a huge project involving a cast of virtual thousands touching almost every Hosted Chef system and component. We can't wait to share erchef with our Hosted Chef users but we want to do …
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- Lindsay Holmwood - auxesis' musings: Incentivising automated changes
Links to any related projects (e.g.: Is this a Rails API that has corresponding iOS and Android clients?)
Links to online tools related to the application (e.g.: Links to the Basecamp project, a link to the dropbox where all the wireframes are stored, a link to the Pivotal Tracker project)
README: Getting Started
The "Getting Started" section outlines the process of getting the app installed and usable for a developer. I define ‘usable' in this context …
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- Diego Carrion: Rails deployment made easy with Inploy
Have created an API for a production environment
Experience with additional database platforms such as Postgres, Redis and Mongo in a live production environment
Able to work in a * nix/ Linux environment
Use source control exclusively, Git preferably
Use ftp to deploy applications
Experience programming iOS, Android or BlackBerry applications
Write tests with UnitTest, RSpec or some other test-driven framework
Additional Desirable Business Competencies
Comfortable …
…User shouldn't know when or how to manipulate "remember me" data, only expose an API that handles the mechanics.
The result: now my extracted class, UserAuthentication has meaning, but doesn't really own any behavior. It's a bit envious of the User model. That "envy" hints that its behavior really should live in the model.
Further, using delegate means the User model's API surface area isn't actually reduced. Granted, this is a stopgap …
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…graphs is to use PhantomJS , which is a headless WebKit with an API that has support for taking screenshots.
We also have the following requirements for our report emails:
Don't generate the Mini-Pulse if the email is never opened , to conserve server resources
Cache the generated image once the email was opened once
Securely serve the image and use encrypted URLs with embedded authentication (the user the email was sent to may no longer have permission to access …
- Ruby on Rails Tutorial News: Rails Tutorial Russian translation
- Matthew Bass: Excluding iPads from the mobile-fu Rails plugin
- A Fresh Cup: Double Shot #1040
- Engine Yard Developer Blog: Building Mobile Web Applications With Kendo UI And Engine Yard
- Opscode Blog: The Making of #learnchef
- Giles Bowkett: How I Wrote My eBook
…Asynchronous Jobs, Emails, 3rd Party Services, and JSON API endpoints.
Tuesday at 2:00pm: Sleeping with the enemy with George Brocklehurst :
In this session we'll go off the Rails and take a look at what our Pythonista cousins are doing with Django.
I'll start with some live coding: recreating DHH's infamous 15 minute blog demo using Django and explaining the building blocks of a Django app along the way. I'll then take that app …
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- New Relic: Take a deep dive tour of New Relic monitoring for Python/Django, now officially available today!
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- DevInterface Blog: How to install MySQL and Rails on Osx Snow Leopard
- Opscode Blog: Deploy Django CMS with Chef
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