…to work correctly. While we put some effort into not passing too many arguments, we fall back to Rule 0 and leave the parameters if we can't find a better way to do it.
Only instantiate one object in the controller
This rule raised the most eyebrows before we started the experiment. Often one need more than one type of thing on a page. For example, a homepage may have both an activity feed and a notification counter.
We solved this using the Facade Pattern . It looks like …
- the evolving ultrasaurus: diversity is a means not an end
- Ruby News: The Barcelona Ruby Conference Call for Papers is Open
- Practicing Ruby: Issue #23: SOLID Design Principles
- DevChix: DevChix Speaking at Conferences 2012
- Ruby Inside: Ruby Rogues: A New Ruby Podcast with 5 Ruby Rascals
- Transcending Frontiers: The Frontier Group - Busy Times Ahead
As for Rule #2—100% of the profits (after payment fees) will go to you. For some topics, 3rd-party sales channels work really well, but most highly specialized technical topics are not among those. (If you sell more than a 100 copies you're selling more than most other self-publishing authors. But most of those authors fail to market right.)
Once you figure out the price (you need to set the price first, and remember to not base your price on what feels right, see #5), to be profitable …
- Global Nerdy: Two Great Node Books at One Great Price: The Node Beginner Book and Hands-On Node.js
- Software by Rob: Hacker Monthly Startup Marketing Special Issue Now Available
- Ruby Inside: The Mega Ruby News and Release Roundup for May 2012
- giant robots smashing into other giant robots: Backbone.js on Rails hits 1.0
- Practicing Ruby: Full Book Now Available For Free!
- Rails Inside: The Rails 3 Upgrade Handbook by Jeremy McAnally
Keith Perhac and I recorded our 3rd podcast episode with special guest Brennan Dunn. Listen to it (or read the transcript) for:
why you should increase your freelancing rate
how to discuss your value with your clients such that they're happy to pay your increased rates
how to scale to a multi-employee consultancy, without being bankrupted by poorly timed receivables
three stories from successful consultants on three very different trajectories in their businesses
- Derek Powazek: links for 2010-03-26
- Lessons Learned: Workshop: The Lean Entrepreneur with Brant Cooper & Patrick Vlaskovits
- Phusion Corporate Blog: A gentle introduction to MacRuby
- Rails on the Run - Home: MerbCamp 2008 SanDiego
- SD Ruby Podcast: Episode 011: ActsAsTaggable Plugin
- danwebb.net - Home: @media Ajax
Faraday: One HTTP Client to Rule Them All - I hadn't realized that Faraday had an entire middleware stack built into it. Among other things that makes it useful for writing fake responses in tests.
A few cURL Tips for Daily Use - Download resuming, faking AJAX requests, using requests from a file and more.
Wirb - Syntax highlighting for irb. Based on Wirble but without the other tools.
Measure Anything, Measure Everything - How to …
- RailsTips by John Nunemaker: Hi My Name is John...
…Rails 3.1 application to production - I'm still trying to figure out all this asset pipeline stuff, but there are some clues here to making capistrano work with Rails 3.1.
One Base Class to Rule Them All - An amusing little bit of Ruby trolling.
Installing PostgreSQL 9.0 on Ubuntu 10.04 - Turns out there's a backports repo to make this simpler.
- Engine Yard Developer Blog: Chicks That Rip: Ines Sombra
- Global Nerdy: At the Ottawa Rails 3.1 Hackfest
- Ruby Inside: 13 New Ruby and Rails Jobs for July 2011
- Plataformatec Blog: Multipart templates with Markerb
- Merbist: First step in scaling a web site: HTTP caching
- RubyFlow - Search for jruby: Rails 3.0.10 Application with JRuby. #jruby #rails
The 2011 Velocity Conference has begun! Opscode's presense began with a great Chef Presentation by Christopher Brown, Joshua Timberman, Matt Ray, Aaron Peterson and Seth Chisamore. If you are attending Velocity, make sure to stop by Opscode's booth (#505/507) to say hello and pick up Opscode's new Rule The Cloud stickers and T-shirt. Also, don't miss Adam Jacob and Jesse Robbins presentation, Choose Your Own Adventure 2; Electric Boogaloo…
- till's blog: Automating with Chef(-Solo)
- Brainspl.at: 4 years at Engine Yard, what a long strange trip it's been.
- AkitaOnRails.com - English: What happened to Rails Summit Latin America?
- High Scalability: Hot Scalability Links for July 2, 2010
The lazy way to accomplish Rule #2 is through a password manager like 1Password or my personal favorite, LastPass . I prefer LastPass because it's a simple browser extension and it's free, while 1Password is a $ 40 desktop app. Both will generate unique, one-time passwords for your accounts, and store them securely. Of course, you still need a "master password" for those apps.
So how do you generate a unique yet memorable password that's unguessable …
- Luigi Montanez: DROID 3 Review
- High Scalability: Hot Scalability Links for April 8, 2010
- Programblings: Podcasts I listen to
- Coding Horror: Your Internet Driver's License
- Stake Ventures Inc.: XAuth a useful service with a poor name
1Password — Rule #1: use a unique password for every site, that way if one site gets compromised, the rest of your online life remains unharmed. Rule #2: use a password manager to prevent entering passwords into phishing sites. Hence, 1Password installed on both iPhone and iPad.
WeatherBug — What is it about iPad apps that make you walk across the room, turn the iPad on and fire up the app, even though you were just sitting in front of a powerful computer with x5 the screen …
- The Curiosity Project: The Tools I Use
- David Bolton Strikes Again: My current setup
- Trevor Turk: Weekly Digest, 7-19-09
- Jason Seifer: Mac OS X Post Install Guide, May 2010
- giant robots smashing into other giant robots: iPad sketching app review
- Viget.com Blogs: My Tools of the Trade
I think we have seeen numerous examples of Godwin's Law right here on Omninerd.
Godwin's law (also known as Godwin's Rule of Nazi Analogies or Godwin's law of Nazi Analogies) 1 2 is a humorous observation made by Mike Godwin in 1990 which has become an Internet adage. It states: "As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1." 3 2
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One URL to Rule Them All
The key to this being effective is only having one true url for each page. We do this right now by redirecting www to no-www and ensuring that each page has a trailing slash. First, no-www. # no www RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.(.*)$ [NC] RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://%1$1 [R=301,L]
Next, we ensure that there is always a trailing slash when needed. This means that /foo redirects to /foo/ and foo.json just stays as foo.json. RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^(GET|HEAD) …
- RailsTips by John Nunemaker: Year In Review
- Ruby on Rails Development: Gotcha: Ruby Class Variable Scope is Global
- High Scalability: Hot Holiday Scalability Links for 2009