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- The Queue Blog: Link dump for June 24th
- OnRails.org: MWRC 2010 - Notes from Day 1.
- SKORKS: Who Deserves The Credit For Software Craftsmanship and Great Design?
- Ruby Inside: 5 Chapters of O'Reilly's Ruby Best Practices - Free!
- Coding with Honour: Limerick Lisp-style
- Pathfinder Development: Pair Programming in the New York Times
For those of you unfamiliar with the publishing industry, as I was before this project, "has entered the production process" does not mean that it's off to the printer. What it does mean is that it is currently being indexed so readers will be able to find the stuff they're looking for. After indexing it will be copyedited (in which someone with better grammar and spelling than any of the authors possess makes the book more readable) and typeset, and then off to the printer. …
- The "Tech. Arch.": Green Behavior-Driven Development With Cucumber
- alexjsharp.com - Home: Focus on what your object DOES, not what it IS
- Luigi Montanez: Recapping the Ruby Hoedown
- Adventures with Ruby: Cucumber 0.5 and my little commit
- Andrzej on Software: BDD examples with user stories and Webrat
- Merbist: I did it wrong
Future animations from Dreamworks SKG will not be rendered on its own servers anymore, but outsourced to Cerelink, the studio announced. The company said that it will use Cerelink's supercomputing infrastructure at the New Mexico Applications Centre ( NMCAC). The advantage over its own supercomputers is the availability of supercomputers on demand, a feature that is commonly referred to as elastic cloud computing.
AuthenticationHelpers happens to be the first module I include from ApplicationController, and it lives in lib/authentication_helpers.rb. After a bid of head-scratching as to why something that has worked for ages and ages in Rails suddenly stopped working (and in between a beta and an RC release, to boot!), I remembered this change in config/application.rb from running rake rails:update:
# Custom directories with classes and modules you want to be autoloadable.
# config.autoload_paths …
- a work on process: I18n and "undefined method each for false:FalseClass"
- DevInterface Blog: Rails Best Practices 3: Increase Controller's readability
- JJinuxLand: Ruby: Using reset_session in Rails with Cucumber and Webrat
- MicroISV on a Shoestring: SEO for Software Companies
- Envy Labs: No Callbacks, No Threads & Ruby 1.9
- The Hobo Blog: Interview for InfoQ
Smart spawning is a core feature of Phusion Passenger since version 1.0. It can reduce the spawning time of Rails processes by as much as 90%, and in combination with Ruby Enterprise Edition it allows you to save 33% memory on average.
However, smart spawning was limited to Rails applications only, not for Rack applications. Starting from Rails 3, all Rails 3 applications are also Rack applications, and Phusion Passenger 2 only supports smart spawning of Rails …
- 赖洪礼的 blog: Phusion Passenger for Python?
- : Munin Graphs for Phusion Passenger (a.k.a. mod_rails)
- duck_punching: Passenger (mod_rails) for development. Now with debugger!
- Testing 1,2,3...: PostgreSQL on Linux strangeness
- Ruby Inside: Vagrant: EC2-Like Virtual Machine Building and Provisioning from Ruby
- Brightbox Blog: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid" now available
Between Draft , Campfire , and Highrise , we've been building quite the iOS portfolio of applications. We want to take good care of them and continue building more iOS and mobile applications, so we're hiring a dedicated programmer for the task.
Think you're up for it? Check out the complete job posting on the 37signals Job Board.
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I recently had to run a Rake task on a Rails app which generated a CSV file from a table containing 94,000 odd rows (94,142 to be pedantically specific) and while running it, something I normally do overnight, I noticed my laptopfreeze solid. After minor cursing, when the machine became responsive again, I checked Activity Monitor to find this:
Yep. That's right -- a single Ruby process using 952 megs of RAM. Oy. And, just to be safe, I confirmed that the Ruby process chewing …
- Eddorre.com: Tutorial: Filtering Results with jQuery UI Slider and Rails 3 Beta 3
- the evolving ultrasaurus: full text search on app engine
- The "Tech. Arch.": Transform Your Ruby Camping Web App Into An OAuth Provider
- Medium eXposure: Rails 3 Reading Material
- RubyLearning Blog: RPCFN: The Game of Life (#11)
- Vineet Gupta | Computer Programmer: NoSql Databases - Part 1 - Landscape
In much the same way the greatest innovation in the Midwest is a culture and spirit of innovation. Witness that Pathfinder Development is working on products for seven(!), countem, seven startups at the moment. Exciting times.
Pathfinder Development - creating innovative software that builds business value.
Startups Scene in Midwest Heats Up
- Giles Bowkett: Job-Hopping
- Jake Scruggs: The Road to Ruby Midwest
- Viget Extend : The Development Lab: Around "Hello World" in 30 Days
- RailsLab: Mark Imbriaco, 37signals
- infused.org: Going Nowhere for RailsConf 2007
- Luigi Montanez: Ten Ruby Conferences (and Three Camps) in Eight Weeks
As simple as that, a single small act of kindness turned completely changed the complexion of the afternoon, at least for one little boy. Tears were replaced with a smile by applying a little empathy to the situation. Sure, it will be annoying going through the process of getting the car repaired, but my lasting memory won't be of the accident. It will be of the compassionate police officer who made my son's day just a little bit better.
On Saturday, August 14th, we're taking the DevNation tour across the country for our first ever stop in the Bay Area. Our friends at Engine Yard will be hosting us for a day of talks, hacking, and discussion. The lineup is our finest to date, featuring, among others, speakers from Pivotal Labs , LinkedIn , Basho , and Yahoo! and capped off by a keynote from Chris Wanstrath ( defunkt of GitHub fame). …
- Giles Bowkett: Considering A San Francisco Visit
- Lessons Learned: Philosophy Helps Start-Ups Move Faster (WSJ on the Lean Startup)
- Opscode Blog: Open Source Chef Training - Open Training
- Mike Perham: OneHood is Hiring!
- ZURBlog: The ZURB Team Grows by 2 ½
- Sphinx search engine news: Talking, blogging, coding, and meeting