Ruby 2.0 Walkthrough: The Best Bits - From Peter Cooper.
How to Use Trello Effectively (What Worked for Our Small Team) - One point of view. Some day I should write up how we use it.
Hook.js - "Pull to refresh. For the web."
The easiest way to test Ruby 2.0 - The Bitnami Rubystack has been upgraded.
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- Phusion Corporate Blog: Phusion Passenger 4.0 beta 1 is here
What Worked Well:
Building an email list : About 5,000 folks asked to receive email from me. They mostly get free advice along the lines of what I've often blogged, except in a bit more detail. For example, I wrote about SaaS pricing and consulting , and subscribers have told me that they've used advice in those emails to substantial effect in their business. My basic brief is "Don't ever waste their time", mostly because I respect that people have …
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- Testing 1,2,3...: Git Project Hell
- Litany Against Fear: Payment Processing with ActiveMerchant Notes
- Complicated Simplicity: The Dark Side of Duck Typing
- oldmoe: Building the Never Blocking Rails, Making Rails 12X Faster
- Expected Behavior : : &[:array, :toproc, :ftw]
…RailsInstaller. I expected bugs; I expected to be creating tickets. Instead, it Just Worked. Booya! So I am personally very happy that RailsInstaller for OS/X exists. I was able to share Rails with myself!
The installer includes the osx-gcc-installer (200Mb or so) which means that users do not need to download XCode and install its command-line tools.
The entire project is open source. If you see bugs, want to improve the installer or build out a custom installer for your workplace, …
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- Global Nerdy: RailsInstaller: The Easy Way to Install Rails on Windows
- the evolving ultrasaurus: start learning ruby on rails tomorrow night 1/25
- RubyLearning Blog: Interview: Michael Hartl, author of the Ruby on Rails Tutorial (railstutorial.org)
What Worked Right:
Twilio . The Twilio API and service have been unalloyed epic wins for Appointment Reminder. I had zero disruptions in service attributable to them, their customer support has been fast, responsive, and technically savvy (even helping me debug my own code at points), and they've been very supportive of me. Plus they have these awesome red track jackets that they keep sending me, which you've probably seen if you've seen a picture of me doing any …
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- Kalzumeus Software: I Wrote A Book On Conversion Optimization For Software Companies
- Binary Logic: Polymorphic association support added to searchlogic
- Talk Like A Duck: Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
- Practicing Ruby: Issue #22: How to practice (2 of 2)
- Rails on the Run - Home: Rails and Merb core team working together
What Worked
Speakers
The fact that Andrew Warner , Hiten Shah , Ramit Sethi , Sean Ellis , Noah Kagan and Patrick McKenzie were in the same room sharing their deepest startup secrets blows my mind. One fear if we decide to hold MicroConf 2012 is how we'd replicate this kind of line-up again. It was so awesome it will be hard to follow.
Attendees
I was also blown away by the quality of MicroConf attendees. I should have …
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- Signal vs. Noise: Shoes and software
- The "Tech. Arch.": A/B Test Your Ruby Camping Web App Using ABingo (Part 1)
- RubyLearning Blog: Patrick McKenzie Winner RPCFN #5
- Unspace Blog: Raising capital in Canada
- Lessons Learned: Amazing lean startup resources
Web Design - Worked with their existing site template and branding to create a fun and friendly design for the Fairy Godmother's Blog
WordPress Integration
EveryMeeting's goal is to make marketing meetings easier for professional meeting organizers by creating a centralized hub of events that users can easily search by interest. MetaSpring designed and developed the system from the ground up to accomplish these goals and remain adaptable …
- Nikos D.: We are moving...
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…answers until I tried to ad a space instead of the "underscore" in the model name. THAT WORKED. So now my yaml file looks like the following. Notice the inconsistencies in the model name! activerecord: models: email template: Email template attributes: email_template: name: Name subject: Subject body: Body
Looking at the source code for the helper method "error_messages_for" we find the thing bothering me here: I18n.with_options :locale => options[:locale], …
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- Nikos D.: More speed comparisons of Ruby 1.8, Ruby 1.9, JRuby, Rubinius and MacRuby using Graticule
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- Paul Gross's Blog: Testing internationalization language files
- Lindsay Holmwood - auxesis' musings: New Gastro features, and tech details
Everything Pretty Much Worked
Let's talk about trains for a second. Four of them were washed away by the tsunami. All of the rest — including ones travelling in excess of 150 miles per hour — made immediate emergency stops and no one died . There were no derailments. There were no collisions. There was no loss of control. The story of Japanese railways during the earthquake and tsunami is the story of an unceasing drumbeat of everything going right .
This was largely …