For ongoing updates on the rubygems.org situation, see their incident update document on Google Docs.
Rubygems.org compromised - Yes, it was, by another YAML parsing vulnerability. There's a lot of work going on (including rebuilding the site from scratch) and a lot of speculation. Personally, I wouldn't install any gems (except from trusted sources) until we see a new site and a post-mortem.
Sublime Text 3 First Look - A few things to know about …
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- Katz Got Your Tongue?: Tokaido: My Hopes and Dreams
- New Relic: New Relic and Rubygems Security
- paulsturgess.co.uk articles: How to write a ruby gem
- The Majestic Sea Creature: RubyGems is not a Battlefield: Part 1 (May 25th meeting w. Eric+Ryan)
- Nick Sieger: War on Perfect
The following is a draft chapter for the upcoming "The Performance of Open Source Applications" ( POSA), a sequel to The Architecture of Open Source Applications . POSA is a collection of essays about performance optimization, designing for performance, managing performance as part of a development process, and more. The book will be published in Spring 2013 under a Creative Commons license with royalties going to Amnesty International.
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- Global Nerdy: IE9's Hardware-Accelerated Canvas in Action
- till's blog: Google Chrome: useful extensions for developers
- Transcending Frontiers: Why you need to care about web browsers
- Momoro Machine: access control allow origin localhost 3000
- New Relic: [INFOGRAPHIC] Browser Wars: What is the fastest web experience? End User Data from New Relic
- JJinuxLand: Documentation Sucks, Video Games Rule!
…provide authors with design/editing/etc using a workflow which was invented by people who grew up on Google Docs rather than manual typewriters, and create books relevant to niche audiences partially by republishing existing essays and partially by supplementing them with new material. (The upshot for the authors is that royalties are split more equitably than 93-7-but-with-accounting-practices-that-would-make-the-RIAA-proud.)
What It Includes
~ 20 essays that originally appeared on my blog, …
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- On the Path: An Open Letter to Restaurant Owners
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We recently put together a quick survey using Google Docs to pass around the office for those that have just started using Sass and to people in the community that have been using Sass for awhile. We came up with a list of five questions that would help us gauge opinions.
1. What scared you the most about taking the leap into Scss?
In general, the responses were all the same. People using vanilla CSS are afraid to jump into the command line and take on the burden of troubleshooting …
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- Labnotes: css-annotate 2.0: live annotate your app
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- giant robots smashing into other giant robots: Controlling color with Sass color functions
SEOmoz uses tools like Google Docs for document collaboration, Atlassian's tools to support Agile, and Prezi for creating a layered presentation of our architecture. Small- to medium-sized companies no longer need to spend a significant part of their revenues on a traditional licensing model to help our employees organize and communicate. What's exciting about SaaS business software is the tool selection process is no longer a top down, what-fits-your-budget decision. …
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"I should have used a real presentation tool instead of Google Docs." (Doh! He's a Googler!)
More and more projects are being ported to Python 3.
People are actually capable of using one code base for Python 2.7 and Python 3.3. There's a helpful library called "Six".
The Python 3 migration is painful now, but it's going to be worth it.
If PyPy is faster than cPython, why not abandon cPython? No one is using PyPy in production. PyPy…
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This is a guest post by Steve Newman, co-founder of Writely ( Google Docs), tech lead on the Paxos-based synchronous replication in Megastore, and founder of cloud service provider Scalyr.com .
Microsoft's Azure service suffered a widely publicized outage on February 28th / 29th. Microsoft recently published an excellent postmortem . For anyone trying to run a high-availability service, this incident can teach several important lessons.
The central …
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- Vineet Gupta | Computer Programmer: Azure - Microsoft's Cloud Platform
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- The Usware Blog - Django Web Development: Foss.in 2009: The best foss.in. Ever.
- Global Nerdy: Apress' "Beginning Windows Phone 7 Development"
- casperfabricius.com: Community Day ‘10 is coming up
…Jabber, Skype, Gmail, Github, Confluence, Google Docs, and more to stay connected and learn how some of the pieces fit together. Thanks to the resources made available from day one and the accessibility of the other Operations team members, I honestly haven't felt left out in the slightest when working from home.
Accountability
Operations definitely sets the bar high for accountability to users and the rest of the company. Every issue I've seen raised by support, programmers, …
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- Simone Carletti's Blog: Book Review: Getting Real
- Rowan Hick: Handling *the* four letter words
- Videos related to 'Ruby on Rails vs PHP - Commercial #4 of 9': RailsConf 09: David Heinemeier Hansson, "Rails 3 ...and the real secret to high productivity"
- Freelancing Gods: Backing up with Backup
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Snow on the ground for the first time this winter. Doesn't look like it'll last long though.
Cane: failing your build for code quality problems - A quality checking tool for Ruby 1.9.
Octokit - Version 1.0.0 of this Ruby wrapper for the GitHub V3 API is out.
Every Little Things Capistrano Does Is Magic - A peek at some of what goes on when you type 'cap deploy.'
BusyFlow - Integrate Pivotal Tracker, Dropbox, Google Docs…
- Trevor Turk: Links for 09-26-11
- casperfabricius.com: My first week with Sublime Text 2
…anticipated being able to run OS X in a VM for the sake of Keynote. Neither Google Docs presentations, Open/Libre Office Impress, or Powerpoint are adequate replacements. Unfortunately, the Core Image (?) APIs used by Keynote don't work under virtualization, so for now I'm still using my old mbp to create presentations, and taking them on the road with me as pdf.
- Ruby Inside: The Ruby Community's Christmas Releases
- carpeaqua by Justin Williams: From iPhone to Windows Phone 7
- Opscode Blog: Chef 0.10.6 Released
- Engine Yard Developer Blog: Introducing RailsInstaller
- JJinuxLand: Books: Python 3 Web Development Beginner's Guide
- Global Nerdy: RailsInstaller: The Easy Way to Install Rails on Windows