…watching people make things, and I doubly love hearing their passion for whatever it is they're making. Even more enlightening, this is a very international series. It's not all hipster shops in San Francisco, Portland, and Brooklyn; it's everywhere.
This is delightful stuff.
How coffee is made in a colorful shop in another country, shot in the " Vimeo style" (is this a thing?): that will always get me.
- Signal vs. Noise: New jobs on the Job Board and web design firms on Sortfolio
- Ruby Inside: This Week's Ruby News: RSpec 2.8.0 RC1, Minitest 2.8.0, and What's New in Bundler 1.1?
- casperfabricius.com: Introducing darebusters.com
- Labnotes: Rounded Corners 258 — Taco bell
- New Relic: Top 3 Challenges Facing Mobile Development
- High Scalability: How Vimeo Saves 50% on EC2 by Playing a Smarter Game
…application framework". Counting customers such as DirecTV, Intuit, Vimeo and Xero, developers are able to build apps that incorporate:
* Scrolling and animations
* Adaptive layouts
* Touch events
* And more
Although it doesn't support as many mobile operating systems as PhoneGap, Sencha Touch supports the key players of iOS and Android. They also make deploying to Android easier by providing a support matrix for a number of Android …
- ZURB: Digital Comics Not Responsive ... Yet
- Simone Carletti's Blog: Book Review: HTML 5 Up and Running
- Global Nerdy: Silverlight, HTML5, The Web, The Phone and All That
- Fingertips: The Meaning of HTML5
- Lee Munroe: Are you an HTML5 web designer?
- Katz Got Your Tongue?: What's Wrong with "HTML5″
…computation over differently priced compute resources. This isn't just a false economy either. Vimeo saves up to 50% on their video transcoding bill by intelligently playing the spot, reserved, and on-demand markets. If you are ready for some advanced reindeer games then take a look at Vimeo EC2 transcoding where they explain their thinking. Even if you don't like their rules, it's the strategy that matters. This presentation was from 2011, so it would be interesting …
- Topics: EC2
- Trevor Turk: Links for 1-13-11
- Lee Munroe: SXSW 2011 Review
- Signal vs. Noise: 13 video player UIs in 24 hours
- casperfabricius.com: Introducing darebusters.com
- The Real Adam: Chance Encounter
- Rowan Hick: The "Dynamic UX" project - Episode 1
…detection/recognition app with MacRuby. Links to code, slides, and the Vimeo video within.
An ActiveRecord-Based Reputation System (RailsCasts)
If you need to calculate an average user's rating or sum up a number of votes, consider using the 'activerecord-reputation-system' gem. Here Ryan Bates covers the basics and presents a from-scratch solution.
The Ruby Rogues Talk Domain Driven Design ( DDD) with David Laribee
Libraries and Code …
- Robby on Rails: Setting Akamai Edge-Control headers with Ruby on Rails
- Ruby-coloured glasses: Link: The perils of opinionated software like Rails
- Ruby Fleebie: Nested has_many :through
- O'Reilly Media: Ruby and Rails: Rails Recipes
- Giles Bowkett: Sing Robots Series: Current Status
- Ruby on Rails Tutorial News: Some free Rails Tutorial screencasts
…landed in Amsterdam and here's Matz's keynote to enjoy on Vimeo.
Geoffrey Grosenbach's Euruko Keynote
Let the always mellifluous murmurs of PeepCode's Geoffrey Grosenbach wash over you in this 40 minute keynote.
Using Ruby to Craft and Test Beautiful Command Line Applications
From RubyConf India comes a talk by Shishir Das and Nikhil Mungel about building elegant command line apps with Ruby (on Unix-like systems, naturally). …
- Tea-Driven Development: Hexagonal Rails: Objects, Values and Hexagons
- Ruby on Rails Tutorial News: Some free Rails Tutorial screencasts
- A Fresh Cup: What's New in Edge Rails #16
- Nikos D.: Interesting ruby micro frameworks for APIs
- Obie Fernandez: Redis on Rails - RedDotRubyConf 2012
- Yan Pritzker: How to win friends with Maintenance Driven Design
…hosted by the likes of Mashable, Gowalla, Foursquare, Vimeo, YouTube, Media Temple, MMXINI that are attended by everyone in the industry (plus the occasional celebrity ).
The parties are definitely the best places to meet people and if there's someone you really want to say hello to you can usually stalk them on Gowalla or Twitter.
The Ginger Man was a local favourite for meeting up with designers and developers. And I was able to meet up with a client, …
- Lessons Learned: SXSW
- Signal vs. Noise: "Why You Aren't Done Yet" and REWORK book signings at SXSW
- New Relic: Web Developers: If you haven't tried New Relic, sign up during #SXSW and enter to win an iPad 2! Come by booth 1327
- Meta | ateM: On my way to SXSW Interactive 2011!
- ZURB: Five Lessons from SXSW
- Global Nerdy: South by Southwest Travel Diary, Entry 1
…plugin for transforming URLs to appropriate resource (image, link, YouTube, Vimeo video,...)
LiveReload applies CSS/JS changes to Safari or Chrome w/o reloading the page (and autoreloads the page when HTML changes)
A plugin for Sinatra to provide a DSL extension for using Thin for asynchronous responses.
Some of these sheets may be a review if you've already …
- Katz Got Your Tongue?: Clarifying the Roles of the .gemspec and Gemfile
- has_many :bugs, :through => :rails: My Rails guides
- giant robots smashing into other giant robots: Fishing for trout in our suspenders
- PeepCode Products: Meet Rails 3 Part II
- Engine Yard Developer Blog: Virtualize This - Instant Rails in a Virtual Box
- RubyLearning Blog: Why Use Single Sign-in Solutions in Rails?
…NoMySQL movement.
Miner finds the hottest upcoming Rubygems
jQuery 1.4.3 Offline Learning Kit
Taco Bell Programming — more gets the point across than link bait.
Awesome stuff I never knew CSS could do
YouTube5 replaces the Flash player on YouTube, Vimeo and Facebook
- Fingertips: We won the Ruby And Rails 2010 Rumble with Miner
- High Scalability: Hot Scalability Links For Oct 24, 2010
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Design Jobs
- Nikos D.: Ruby & Rails Jobs (in Europe, USA, and worldwide)
- Transcending Frontiers: The Sortfolio Experiment
…Lexus paid him to make a video of their driving school. You can see some of his recent videos on Vimeo, including this one called Insomnia . He is also a talented photographer , which is a hobby that started with an interest in automotive photography and has now lead to landscape, city, creative, and portrait photography.
Although Brendan was a typical "geek", only several of his close friends were privy to his computer-related hobbies. I asked him why his geekery …