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- Litany Against Fear: RailsConf 2009 Starting up Fast Lessons from the Rails Rumble
- DigitalHobbit: Hacking the D-Link DNS-321 NAS
- Comments on: blog: Daily Review #40
- Labnotes: You learn fastest, while failing about half the time
- Opscode Blog: Chef 0.8.2 Release
- Zerosum Dirt(nap): The Way They Were Inside
…37signals from Twitter, and then prioritized based on known keywords: links to SvN posts and Jobs Board postings are less likely to need an immediate response, so we filtered accordingly.
Using these keywords, we were able to correctly prioritize about 60% of tweets, but that still left a big chunk mixed in with those that did need an immediate reply: for every tweet that needed an immediate reply, there were still three other tweets mixed in to the stream to be handled.
I thought …
- New Relic: Now Announcing Alerts for New Relic Lite
- Ruby Inside: The Past 2 Weeks in Ruby: 1.9.3-p286, JRuby 1.7RC2, Sidekiq Pro and Much More
- ZURB: What Tools Do Startups Use To Collaborate? 3 Influencers Weigh In
- Phusion Corporate Blog: Ruby Enterprise Edition 1.8.7-2012.02 released; End of Life imminent
- A Fresh Cup: My Tools of the Trade - 2011
- SKORKS: How Search Engines Process Documents Before Indexing
…for open source Ruby projects. Lucky you! In Dr Nic's time it was all SVN, uphill both ways.
If your target project has a web site, it will probably link to the official GitHub repository. Failing that, you can search GitHub for the name of the project. This may also turn up other people's forks of the project — if you're not sure which one is the original, just pick one and follow the "forked from" links.
Once you've found the repository, scroll …
- Ruby Inside: This Week in Ruby: What to Expect in Rails 4.0 talk, EventMachine tutorial, and StrongParameters hit Edge Rails
- AkitaOnRails.com - English: Cooking Solo with Chef
- Phusion Corporate Blog: Launching unofficial, automatically updated Github mirror for the Nginx SVN repository
- The Life Of A Radar: The Writing Process
- Ruby Inside: The Why, What, and How of Rubinius 1.0's Release
- Engine Yard Developer Blog: Engine Yard Documentation 2.0
git-extensions
cygwin In the ruby world, we rely on the following open source libraries (among others)
active merchant (from Shopify)
For Testing
- MySQL Performance Blog: Baron Schwartz interviewed on WebPulp.tv
- RailsBridge News: Do One Thing for Rails 3 on January 16th and 17th
- paperplanes: The Virtues of Monitoring
- Trevor Turk: Weekly Digest, 7-9-09
- Ruby Inside: Ruby in 2010: A Retrospective of a Great Year for Ruby
- RailsLab: Yehuda Katz & Justin George Talk Rails 3
…are green when done. The refactoring change should be a separate commit in git (separate checkin in SVN, etc).
OK, I'm pragmatic and realize that that approach doesn't work all the time, but it's a good ideal to shoot for. I considered discussing cases where it would be OK to refactor something in the middle of another change, but on second thought I think I'll leave that be for now. You'll learn that for yourself better than by following someone else's advice …
Many developers are convinced that their language, tool or library is the best. They think that C is better than Pascal, Python is better Ruby, and Git is much better than SVN. Among the editors, some prefer VIM over Emacs, while others only like Textmate or JEdit. The preference for certain languages, tools and frameworks can be very subjective, some like this tool, some like that, while others prefer something completely different. Often you like the tool you are used to, because …
- the evolving ultrasaurus: on choosing RSpec as a test framework
- DigitalHobbit: Gelato with DHH
- News Feed: Learning RSpec, Part II
- paperplanes: The Shoulda RSpec Extravaganza
- giant robots smashing into other giant robots: Writing matchers for shoulda
- without_scope - Home: I Need to be More Positive or Hooray Shoulda
…has established Nginx as a company . The Nginx SVN repository is now open to the public and a few days ago they even opened a Trac . In short: a lot of great news lately.
Announcing the Github Nginx mirror
These days a lot of people have switched from Subversion to Git. When you've worked with Git for a while, Subversion probably feels archaic and unproductive. The "killer app" for Git is Github , which provides an unbeatable collaboration …
- Codeshooter's Weblog: Deployment Recipes - Deploying, monitoring and securing your Rails application to a clean Ubuntu 10.04 install using Nginx and U
- Expected Behavior : : script/nginx - nginx+unicorn ftw
- igvita.com: Nginx & Comet: Low Latency Server Push
- Kalzumeus Software: Building Highly Reliable Websites For Small Companies
- Freelancing Gods: script/nginx
- Brainspl.at: 4 years at Engine Yard, what a long strange trip it's been.
…You can get Shard-Query (currently in development release form as a checkout from SVN) here: Shard-Query Google code project
Full disclosure
Justin Swanhart, the author of this article is also the creator and maintainer of Shard-Query. The author has previously worked in cooperation with Infobright, including on benchmarking. These particular tests were performed independently of Infobright, without their knowledge or approval. Infobright was, however, given the …
- MySQL Performance Blog: Distributed Set Processing with Shard-Query
[ CHEF-2092 ] - Deploy resource with SVN failing in Chef 0.9.14
[ CHEF-2102 ] - Need correct URI encoding and decoding of the query string for search
[ CHEF-2103 ] - Search result is incorrect with syntax (NOT...) AND ... and (NOT...) ...
[ CHEF-2122 ] - knife rackspace server create's bootstrap uses identity_file but there's no config option
[ CHEF-2124 ] - Knife should not load …
- Opscode Blog: An Opscode year in review
- Opscode Blog: Chef 0.9 EOL
- A Fresh Cup: Double Shot #678
- Engine Yard Developer Blog: Managing your ey-cloud-recipes
- BenCurtis.com: A Chef recipe for ProFTPD
- SD Ruby Podcast: Episode 067: Cooking up a Cloud (with Chef & EC2)
There are many miracles that Git performs for source code versioning and I would like to highlight a recent one that really made my day. Pathfinder did a project for client that also has a team of in house developers. But they use SVN, not Git. Since the development was happening on our side, Git was used to version the project. And since the client is a big organization, having them change their versioning policy was not likely to happen. At the end of the project came a time for the client …
- RubyLearning Blog: Does ROR deployment deprive YOU of your sleep?
- Headius: JRuby Moves to Git
- ronin coder: Daily git-svn
- Viget.com Blogs: Anatomy of a Rails Rumble Project
- Mark Tucker's Brainwork: Merb 1.0
- casperfabricius.com: Learnings from Rails Rumble