How Batman can Help you Build Apps - Shopify
I'd like to give a quick tour of what makes Batman different and why you might want to use it instead of the other amazing frameworks available today.
Bare-bone, stripped-down Devise | Plataforma Tecnologia Blog
It is important to keep in mind that Devise was built by us to be flexible and capable of handling different requirements from different clients, so it is PlataformaTec's priority to have it as flexible as possible!
- New Relic: Why I love working for New Relic, by Brent Miller
- Tender Lovemaking: I want DTrace probes in Ruby
- Andrzej on Software: Stop hating Java
- Engine Yard Developer Blog: Chicks That Rip: Ines Sombra
- Ruby Inside: Thanking Ruby Inside's June and July 2011 Sponsors
- Mental Paging Space: RealTime and Rails
Links!
Why WSJ Mobile App Gets ** Customer Reviews ( Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox)
Why do so many people think they have to pay when they don't? Because of a highly confusing user interface design.
Dynamic nested forms using jQuery made easy; works with formtastic, simple_form or default forms
Please, please, please stop asking how to find a technical co-founder. - humbledMBA
You don't find a technical cofounder, you earn one.
- High Scalability: Comet - An Example of the New Key-Code Databases
- Mike Perham: Optimizing Heroku
- A Rubyist Railstastic Adventure: What's Up With All These Changes in Rails?
- Heroku: The New Heroku (Part 4 of 4): Erosion-resistance & Explicit Contracts
- The Majestic Sea Creature: Giving the RubyGems documentation some love
- ZURB: Is Amazon Taking Enough Risks?
I always get a kick of out seeing how other people customize the home screens on their phones, so I put out a call for screen shots from everyone at 37signals. We got a pretty good response so I thought I'd share:
Kristin Aardsma (Support)
- Topics: 37signals
- Signal vs. Noise: Counterpoint: 200,000 apps is what they want
- Trevor Turk: Links for 5-17-11
- Rail Spikes - Home: Y Combinator Interview Advice
Lots of links. It's been too long!
Legacy Development with Pow « Stuff... And Things...
However, there is a downside: Pow doesn't play nicely with Apache (or any server listening on port 80). Life isn't all greenfield, if in the course of the day you need to work on PHP or CGI legacy apps Pow is not so simple. Pow creates a firewall rule that redirects port 80 to its port; to access Apache you need to either toggle the firewall rule on and off or move …
- Ruby Inside: How to Play with Rails 3.1, CoffeeScript and All That Jazz Right Now
- Engine Yard Developer Blog: EYU Authorized Training Provider Program is here!
- giant robots smashing into other giant robots: PostgreSQL Conf East
- Andrzej on Software: Teaching Rails at University of Wrocław
- Simone Carletti's Blog: Ruby 4 Rails - Learning Ruby, with Rails in mind
- Hobo Blog: Hobo 1.0.3 released
Learn to Program, by Chris Pine is a wonderful introduction to programming. I recommend this book to everyone that asks me how to get started.
- Topics: Chris
- Trevor Turk: Tools of the Trade
- Rail Spikes - Home: Y Combinator Interview Advice
- kahfei: My sort of sort
- Ruby on Rails Podcast: Chris Pine - Ruby on Rails Podcast
- Engine Yard Developer Blog: Resources for Getting Started with Ruby on Rails
- From Noob to Ninja Programmer: How to start learning Ruby
Like most programmers starting a new gig, I spent my first day at 37signals setting up my work environment. I thought it might be interesting to keep track of what I installed along the way...
SizeUp for managing windows
Alfred for launching applications
- Topics: 37signals
- Trevor Turk: Reduce your inputs
- Rail Spikes - Home: Y Combinator Interview Advice
- mir.aculo.us: Apple-style carousel with scripty2
- RailsOnWave Ruby on Rails web 2.0 Ajax - Home: Startup School 2009
- Giles Bowkett: Practice Video For Acting Class
- : Web Service API Design By Example
A digest of my recent links on Pinboard :
Kevin Kelly, Founding Executive Editor of Wired Magazine and noted technologist, presents ideas from latest book, What Technology Wants. "[T]echnology as a whole is...a living, evolving organism that has its own unconscious needs and tendencies."
Free Cron and Background Jobs for Heroku
joshaven/string_score - GitHub
entity_211 …
- Lee Munroe: Goals for 2011
- Luke Redpath: Deploying your iOS ad-hoc builds with the BetaBuilder gem and TestFlight
- interblah.net: road-testing-the-eleven-inch-air
- AdminMyServer Blog: .gitignore for iPhone / XCode development
- Programblings: Installing ruby 1.9preview1 on OS X Leopard
- Comments on: blog: Link dump for June 20th
While I was busy complaining ...
I think I figured out what I don't like about cucumber — you have to write a step for everything, even it it only pertains to a single test.
@ smithcorona came up with a solution :
Nice.
- Rail Spikes - Home: Y Combinator Interview Advice
Let's say you want to have a log of all outgoing emails in your Rails 3 app. Thanks to some pretty sweet notification support in the Mail gem, it's really simple. Here's an example using Mongoid:
Initially, I was logging the entire contents of the email, but that included attachments as well. So, now I'm just logging the body. I wonder if there's a better choice of what to log, though...
Any ideas?
- Riding Rails - home: Rails 3.0: It's ready!
- Ruby Inside: Mongoid vs MongoMapper: Two Great MongoDB Libraries for Ruby
- Adventures with Ruby: Customizing IRB, 2010 edition
- RailsTips by John Nunemaker: MongoMapper 0.8: Goodies Galore
- New Relic: Monitoring the AWS-S3 gem in RPM : Custom Instrumentation Part 2
- RailsCasts: Episode 238: Mongoid
I've cleaned out my GitHub watched repos quite a bit. My newsfeed just had way too much going on. Something needed to be done. Before cleaning things up, I decided to bookmark all of the repos I had been watching on pinboard:github . If you're interested, have a browse through those links. There are some really great projects buried in there.
Top 10 Mistakes in Behavior Change
- Giles Bowkett: Google Has Its Head Up Its Ass
- Rails Illustrated: A Simple Improvement to Twitter
- A Fresh Cup: Double Shot #625