The Ruby Reflector

…Body is 15px too wide to the right, padding issue. Thunderbird ✓ Sparrow (iOS) ✓ Sparrow ( Desktop) ✓ Entourage 2004 ✓ Entourage 2008 ✓ Windows Mail ✓ Live Mail ✓

As you can see, there are quite a few places where the templates are supported, including Outlook 2003 and Windows Mail.

Getting Started With Responsive Email Templates

Another question we've received is: "how do I get started?"

To use the templates effectively, you're …

• Topics: Campaign Monitor, Gmail, Cascading Style Sheets, XHTML, Desktop
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…Microsoft doesn't get their A Team "hey dummies, all you have to do is just copy Sparrow already" team on that soon, they'll be sorry.

Many of the native applications currently available run poorly on Surface RT due to lack of optimization and testing for the ARM platform versus x86. Probably not terribly different from the iPad 1 on launch day, but it remains to be seen how quickly that will get resolved.

The web browser is stellar and a model of how the Internet…

• Topics: Line-mode browser, Surface RT, Microsoft, Stack Overflow, Intel Corporation
• Global Nerdy: Microsoft Gets Touch, and the Touch Technology Article That Got Me in Trouble at Microsoft (plus a contest!)

§ The Sparrow Problem and How to Evaluate a (paid) iPhone App Idea .

§ Kafka writes every message to broker disk. Still, performance wise it is better than some of the in-memory message storing message queues. Why is that?

The second reason is because Kafka supports end-to-end batching of messages. Computers love linear scans and transfers with big arrays, they hate little bursty random messages. One prerogative of an asynchronous messaging system is the …

• Topics: JavaScript, Evaluate, Netflix, XHTML, iPhone App
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• High Scalability: Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For July 27, 2012

…power law ruins everything : 20% of iOS applications make 97% of the revenue. Directly related to The Sparrow Problem where low software prices make it hard to build standalone software companies, which makes spirit killing buyouts the goal. Don't miss all that the Internet has to say on Scalability, click below and become eventually consistent with all scalability knowledge...

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• New Relic: Community News: MySQL at Twitter and More
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Mailplane - There aren't a heck of a lot of alternatives to Sparrow out there (though I expect a lot of wannabe apps to launch shortly). Mailplane isn't bad, if you want a better GMail experience than the web UI offers by itself.

LibEtPan - Apparently the mail library underneath Sparrow is still alive as open source.

Textastic - Text editor for the iPad with some interesting features to make coding less painful.

Adobe PhoneGap 2.0 Released …

• Topics: UI, jQuery, JavaScript, Ruby on Rails, VC
• JJinuxLand: Books: Python 3 Web Development Beginner's Guide
• casperfabricius.com: Event-driven javascript with jQuery
• ZURB: Critique a Webpage in 30 Seconds with Spur
• Bamboo Blog: Adding awesome mini views to your web apps
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…you're running Chrome, Speed Tracer is even better .

Git³ gitv is a gitk clone plugin for vim, and if any of these words mean something to you, you'll want to check it out .

Present Sparrow takes flight: how a startup built the Gmail app Google couldn't .

Woof In today's comic relief, text from dog .

• Topics: Assaf, Timeline, HTML5, Chrome, WebKit

Sparrow Lite 1.5 - All the features of the Sparrow desktop OS X email client, for free, as long as you can tolerate some ads. Here's the release announcement .

A Case Against Using CoffeeScript - I've looked at CoffeeScript, and I find myself strongly in agreement with the points made here. I might just be too old to learn new tricks though.

Bfxr - Online sound effects generator with enough options to drive my dog completely bonkers. …

• Topics: Facebook, Amazon.com, Meta Tracker, APIs, Secure Shell

…RabbitMQ), C ( beanstalkd), Ruby ( Starling or Sparrow), Scala ( Kestrel) or Java ( ActiveMQ). A short overview can be found here

Sparrow

- written by Alex MacCaw

- Sparrow is a lightweight queue written in Ruby that "speaks memcache"

Starling

- written by Blaine Cook at Twitter

- Starling is a Message Queue Server based on MemCached

- written in Ruby

- stores jobs in memory (message queue)

- Ruby client: for instance Workling…

• Topics: Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Background Job, Amazon.com, RabbitMQ
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• : Monitoring delayed_job with god on CentOS