…not a new book. From Lean Software Strategies: Proven Techniques for Managers and Developers by Peter Middleton & James Sutton (2005) I have taken away a much stronger appreciation of the word customer , and I find myself repeating its advice often.
My book of 2012
I choose Paul Tough's How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character not because it's still fresh in my mind but because it's a book …
I presented a webinar this week to give an overview of Tools and Techniques for Index Design . Even if you missed the webinar, you can register for it, and you'll be emailed a link to the recording.
I'd like to invite folks who are interested in tools for query optimization to attend the new Percona online virtual training Analyzing SQL Queries with Percona Toolkit , October 29 - November 2, 2012. See http://store.percona.com/catalog.php?category=17 …
- Engine Yard Developer Blog: Making Migrations Faster and Safer
- RubyLearning Blog: Getting started with Heroku
- High Scalability: Sponsored Post: Nokia, Oracle, Percona Live, AiCache, ElasticHosts, Logic Monitor, Attribution Modeling, New Relic, AppDynamics,
- Scout ~ The Blog: CouchDB in production
- New Relic: Case study: For wooga, social games are serious business.
- James on Software: InnoDB kernel_mutex Contention and Memory Allocators
I'll present a webinar Tools and Techniques for Index Design on October 3, 2012 at 10:00am Pacific time to give an overview of the best practices and procedures for you to build index design into your development and operations work. Please register for this free webinar and join me on Wednesday!
The topics in this webinar are in part a preview of our new Live Virtual Training for Analyzing SQL Queries with Percona Toolkit . I've been developing …
Cucumber Recipes: Automate Anything with BDD Tools and Techniques now in beta
- MySQL Performance Blog: Percona sessions at the MySQL conference
- Redline Software Inc. - Winnipeg's Leader in Ruby on Rails Development: ASP.Net MVC vs Ruby on Rails Smackdown Results
- Obie Fernandez: The Next Big Leap
- RubyLearning Blog: Charles Feduke Winner RPCFN #2
- Adventures with Ruby: Cucumber 0.5 and my little commit
- Ruby Inside: A Review of "The RSpec Book" by David Chelimsky
Martin Thompson , a high-performance technology geek, has written an awesome post, Fun with my-Channels Nirvana and Azul Zing . In it Martin shows the process and techniques he used to take an existing messaging product, written in Java, and increase throughput by 32X and reduce latency by 20X. The article is very well written with lots of interesting details that make it well worth reading.
The Techniques
- Global Nerdy: The "Ignite Your Coding" Podcast Series
Another day in the trenches.
rest-client - Easy ruby REST client.
LayerVault - "Simple version control for designers" offering a transparent UI-based way to keep version history.
Mustaches, ERB and the future of templating - Techniques to get view/layout separation within ERB.
RubyMonk - In-browser Ruby learning experience.
rolify - Roles gem designed to integrate with CanCan and devise.
Markdown Pr …
- Engine Yard Developer Blog: Rails 3 Beta is Out — A Retrospective
- Ruby Inside: A Review of ‘The Rails 3 Way' by Obie Fernandez
- Katz Got Your Tongue?: Automatic Flushing: The Rails 3.1 Plan
- Meta Bates: Let's say goodbye to YAML for configuration, shall we?
- redirect_to :hack: Collaborative Facebook development with Facebooker
- RailsCasts: Episode 208: ERB Blocks in Rails 3
I learned this trick while reading Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming , which is a fantastic book, by the way. Here's my Oz code for printing out Pascal's triangle: % This is a generic version of Pascal's triangle that let's you specify the
% operation instead of just using "+".
declare GenericPascal OpList ShiftLeft ShiftRight
fun {GenericPascal Op N}
if N==1 then [1]
else L in
L={GenericPascal Op N-1}
{OpList …
- Engine Yard Developer Blog: Lucky 13 Strikes (again)
- Bamboo Blog: Shared Risk: Our Agile Contract
- has_many :through: Pair programming isn't right for all projects
- nanoRAILS: Ruby-debug quick tips: init file and -n option
- » Product Launch Blog: Objective-C: a Language Only a Compiler Could Love
- Brightbox Ruby Blog: Wanted: Senior Ruby Software Engineer
HTML 5 and CSS 3: The Techniques You'll Soon Be Using
How to Make All Browsers Render HTML5 Mark-up Correctly - Even IE6
HTML5 Unleashed: Tips, Tricks and Techniques
Yes, You Can Use HTML 5 Today!
Site Design
Touch The Future: Create An Elegant Website With HTML 5 …
- casperfabricius.com: Curiosities of HTML5
- Life at the Speed of Green: #airfail for HTML Developers
- Lee Munroe: Are you an HTML5 web designer?
- Dalibor Nasevic: Blog application migrated to Rails 3 and UI re-designed
- A Piece of Our Mind: Friday Morning MetaBits - Oct. 15, 2010
- Fingertips: The Meaning of HTML5
Successful Freelancing With Ruby On Rails: Workflow, Techniques And Tools
- Comments on: blog: Link dump for October 7th
- Rails Magazine - recent publications: #3 - Nibbling at the Bits
- processi: workflow, bpm, selected resources
- Luigi Montanez: Setting a Default Account Using Triggers
- Viget.com Blogs: Getting to Grips with Git
- Beta Blog: Kill Your Signup Form with Rails
…December 2009 issue of MSDN Magazine : Using Agile Techniques to Pay Back Technical Debt .
What's Ignite Your Coding All About?
In case you were wondering what Ignite Your Coding is all about: It's all about helping you, the software developer, find ways to stay on top of the technological, economic and social changes that affect you and your work every day. We got our hands on some of the biggest thinkers and doers in our field and asked them if they'd …
- World Wide Webber: EVAN Presentation on Web-y Distributed Systems with Ian Robinson