If it's Tuesday, it must be Cub Scouts.
Join Us In The Fight Against Patent Trolls - Rackspace, with patent litigation being its fastest-growing expense, is now spending money to document prior art in the industry. Good on them.
Refining Ruby - Charles Nutter discusses refinements from the standpoint of a language implementer. (My own take: yet another complex part of Ruby that I'll never use).
My Thoughts on Refinements - Zach Moazeni offers …
- Opscode Blog: Ohai 6.14.0 released
- Headius: An experiment in static compilation of Ruby: FASTRUBY!
- Ruby Inside: The Mega Ruby News and Release Roundup for May 2012
- Engine Yard Developer Blog: Engine Yard is Teaming with Red Hat on JRuby
- Mike Perham: Current Thoughts on Ruby Performance
- Global Nerdy: Mobile Developer News Roundup for Friday, May 25, 2012
…are for you home page, 35% for some article page and 5% for the About Us page, then have Siege use that pattern.
After you've completed a siege, you'll get a summary of your results. It will tell you how many requests failed, how many succeeded, how much data was delivered, the average response time, the longest response time, etc. Remember to always do this before and after you do performance work. This helps you establish a baseline and see exactly what improvements you incisions …
- How Software is Built: Interview with James Vasile - Software Freedom Law Center
- Lindsay Holmwood - auxesis' musings: Drupal in oz
- Global Nerdy: Drupal Camp Toronto 2010
- Slicehost VPS Hosting is now Rackspace Cloud Servers hosting - Blog: Cron laughs at your four winds
- Ruby, Javascript, Erlang blog: Snakes, Gems & Coffee: Tips to Enterpreneurs Hiring Ruby on Rails Consulting Firms
- A Piece of Our Mind: 2009 Summer Portfolio Showcase
Read Why Layered Complexity Gave Us a 40% Jump in Customer Lifetime Value"
What the Heck is Customer Lifetime Value?
Customer lifetime value is a core metric that businesses should keep an eye on. Bryan analyzes what this number is and how this number is crucial in forecasting spending to acquire new customers. Layered complexity is key and this is how you track the impact.
Read "What's This LTV Business All About?"
There Are No Limits…
Have you ever had a channel in an ExpressionEngine installation that required its own set of custom fields, but only needed one entry? Perhaps a homepage or an "About Us" section that needed its own custom content but wasn't a traditional list of posts? Single Entry can help.
Once configured, Single Entry moves your single entry channels out of EE's standard publish and edit workflow and into a new section of your content dropdown. From there, you'll …
- Blog on Applicake's ideas, Ruby on Rails and Internet start-ups: Aspect-oriented programming in JS
- Lessons Learned: London Calling
- New Relic: Win a ticket to Nordic Ruby! Two chances to win!
- Global Nerdy: Scenes from MinneBar 2011
- Ruby News: Upcoming Ruby Programming Competitions with Matz - Grand Prize - 1,000,000 JPY!
- On the Path: Accounting for Time in a State-Based Workflow
I've spent enough time listening to this Adele/Daft Punk mix that made the rounds a little while ago that the two songs comprising the source material are now inextricably linked. I have trouble recalling " Set Fire to the Rain" or "Something About Us" without combining that saucy vocal and the latter's louche synths or dripping bass.
The whole is greater than the sum of its parts, but Adele's vocal work is the component that …
Read About Us in Inc.
BarCamp Tour was recently covered in Inc. , in the article Sponsorship as Participation , a title that I believe sums up our philosophy quite nicely.
In the article, Jonathan Kay , Grasshopper's "Ambassador of Buzz", explains that BarCamps are great places to find entrepreneurs, small business and other people who are likely customers of our companies' wares, and how nontraditional gatherings call for nontraditional sponsorship: …
- Global Nerdy: Joey's Summer Vacation
- Signal vs. Noise: Personality versus "professionalism"
- Lee Munroe: Checking Your Site For Visual Hierarchy
- BenCurtis.com: Interested in Building a Shopify App?
- giant robots smashing into other giant robots: Missed connections: I saw you testing my website
- Phusion Corporate Blog: Ruby Enterprise Edition 1.8.7-2009.10 released
…hipster hobby, there's a very healthy selection of board games at Toys ‘R' Us and there are crowds at Toronto's board game café, Snakes and Lattes . Just as videogames have their own special charms, so do board games - they may be made of plastic and cardboard instead of pixels and data, but in both, it's the gameplay that makes or breaks them.
Gameplay is what Board Game Jam is all about, and since it's about making board games rather …
- Codeshooter's Weblog: Full text search in in Rails with Sunspot and Solr
…what commonalities the top 100 sites have and if those shared traits are a factor of their success.
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Hannah Donovan: What Improvisation Can Teach Us About Design
Donovan's talk began with a live jam session. It was unexpected and came at the perfect time during the day — just as people had started to fatigue it felt refreshing. In a previous life I was a musician, so her talk resonated with me.
Tom Coates: Everything the Network Touches
This was the talk that I took the most notes on. Coates covered "transformative infrastructures" — from ancient history, …
- Derek Powazek: Your right to comment ends at my front door.
- Coding Horror: Responsible Open Source Code Parenting
- Giles Bowkett: Advertizing Will Shrink And Grow Feathers
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- Merbist: MacRuby 0.5 beta 1 and Textorize
- Mislav's blog: URL regex pattern in Rails