Setting up Sublime Text 2 - A basic "getting started" guide. Personally I'd put more effort into learning functionality than worrying about a pretty icon, but that's just me.
Phusion Passenger 4.0 Release Candidate 6 - Chugging right along.
Persona Beta 2 launch - Mozilla's identity service is building bridges to OpenId and OAuth now.
- Ruby Inside: The Mega Ruby News and Release Roundup for May 2012
It's been three weeks since the launch of the largest feature enhancement in Scout's existence: roles. Haven't heard of roles? Nutshell: roles let you monitor many serves with fewer clicks and more joy . Roles were driven by your feedback and it's showing in the fast adoption numbers below.
Time to give an awkward nerd high-five of thanks:
Customers on our Roles BETA program - your feedback and willingness to try new things helped us iron out the edges for the public rollout.
- Codeulate.: Making Github's Code Readable
- Giles Bowkett: MindValley: Even Better Than GitHub (As A Place To Work)
- A Fresh Cup: Open Source Report #1
- New Relic: See New Relic at CloudBeat 2012 - Find Out How You Can Join Us
- Christy John: What is stopping you from taking that leap of faith?
- Developing with Style: Cake Nibbles #4
Vienna 3 Beta 10 - New version of my currently-favorite feed reader.
Rapidash - Gem core for building APIs.
Vagrant 1.1, VMWare Fusion - Vagrant atop Fusion has been released.
Alfred v2 Primer: Getting Started With Version 2 - I've been running the beta version of this now-released automation software for a while, and it's quite slick.
Bring Ruby VCR to Javascript testing with Capybara and puffing-billy - We do love our test tools.
Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona XtraBackup 2.1.0 for MySQL beta on April 22, 2013. Downloads are available from our download site here . For this BETA release, we will not be making APT and YUM repositories available, just base deb and RPM packages
This is an BETA quality release and is not intended for production. If you want a high quality, generally available release, the current stable version should be used ( currently 2.0.6 in the 2.0 series at the time of writing) .
- New Relic: How do you move more than 6000 customers in 2 hours? (Hint: plan ahead)
- Engine Yard Developer Blog: MySQL 5.5 and 5.1 Support in Alpha
Ruby 2 p0, Rails 4 Beta 1, and CoffeeScript 1.5 Released
The first stable release of the 2.0 series of the Ruby programming language has been released. Highlighted among its new features are:
Language core features
Keyword arguments, which give flexibility to API design
Module#prepend, which is a new way to extend a class
A literal %i, which creates an array of symbols easily
__dir__, which returns the dirname of the file currently being executed
The UTF-8 …
- WyeWorks Blog - The Team's Voice: Rails 4 compilation links
- A Fresh Cup: Double Shot #1073
- Giles Bowkett: Review: Create Your Own Freaking Awesome Programming Language
- CRAZ8: Seven Advanced Rails Fragment Cache Techniques
- RubyLearning Blog: Ruby in 2012
- Labnotes: 2011 is year of the Server-Side JavaScript
This release should be considered BETA quality.
New features:
New Pool of threads feature has been implemented that can be used for dispatching queries to MySQL database servers. This feature introduces new - thread-pool-threads-count option, which can be used to specify the number of threads in the thread pool dispatcher plugin .
Bugs fixed:
P ercona Playback for MySQL now shows error when it's unable to connect to the MySQL database server. Bug fixed …
- Videos matching: rubyonrails: How to Install Ruby on Rails 1.9.3 on Windows 7 with RadRail and MySQL Server
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- BenCurtis.com: Auto-spawning Delayed Job Workers
- James on Software: Moving On
- occasionally useful: ACID Cloud databases to keep an eye on
- Labnotes: Rounded Corners 417 — A student of how things fall apart
§ TDD vs BDD . My one key take away:
This misses out of the major benefit of working outside-in, which is having the requirement challenged: if you need to explain to a computer how to check the requirement, you'll need to be damn sure understand it yourself. If you don't (and you often don't) it's much cheaper to find that out before you write the code.
§ Jasic is a javascript development environment created exclusively for the iPad . In Beta right now.
…may seem like a strikingly small number. However, remember that Scout isn't a BETA product: spending most of my writing code three years after launch wouldn't be a good sign for a focused product like Scout.
My biggest disappointment? I spent nearly 1.5 hours each day in Gmail. I don't receive that much email: I think I'm checking my email too frequently when I need a mental break. Stepping away from the computer is probably a better use of my time.
Distracting Time…
- RubyLearning Blog: Do You Enjoy Your Code Quality?
- Lee Munroe: How to get MySQL, Ruby, RVM and Rails working on Snow Leopard
- Signal vs. Noise: Tools for editing REWORK
- Dyba's Weblog: Loading XML data
- Brightbox Ruby Blog: The Brightbox Toolkit
- Eddorre.com: Installing Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, MySQL on Snow Leopard
…' setting. HockeyApp recommends using this same technique to keep their Beta Testing code out of your release builds for the app store.
With great power...
I'd be remiss if I didn't state that this technique should be used extremely sparingly. The use cases presented here are examples of how you may want to use source code preprocessing, but you can quickly go too far. Used correctly and sensibly however, Preprocessors can be a powerful addition to your workflow. …
- carpeaqua by Justin Williams: My Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List for Mac OS X (2012 Edition)
- Global Nerdy: Counting Down to Seven: "Platformer" Running on Windows Phone 7
- Mental Paging Space: A Debuggable Windows Service in Csharp
A. Prior to the release of these full 32-bit images, each BETA 32-bit instance ran a 64-bit kernel. This caused the odd amount of confusion with some package managers and other software.
These new instances will allow you to run a full 32-bit Linux image - that is to say, a 32-bit kernel and a 32-bit userland.
Q. What happens if I am already running a slice that uses the previously provided 32-bit instances?
A. Your instances will not be affected by this change. You can continue running …