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No More Double Shots »

Created at: 29.04.2010 14:27, source: A Fresh Cup, tagged: Double Shot

Yes, it's true. After 700 postings, I'm calling an end to Double Shot. But don't despair: I'm still going to be collecting pointers to stuff I find useful, and commenting briefly on it. But these resource listings are moving over to the new Larkware site, where I'll be joined by Dana Jones, Mike Breen, and Russell Norris. Our hope is to bring you longer blog postings as well as the short bits, and to make the overall experience more useful. Please come join us there. Comments here will be shut down to keep the spammers away.

Double Shot #700 »

Created at: 28.04.2010 13:32, source: A Fresh Cup, tagged: Double Shot

A nice round number again.

• Unit and Functional Tests are as Useful as 100% Code Coverage - I'm starting to agree with an emphasis on integration tests. I'm still not a fan of cucumber though.
• Steak - Plain Ruby alternative to cucumber for acceptance tests. Runs on top of RSpec.
• PayFacade - Looks like a new attempt to simplify interacting with credit card processors. Taking beta applications now.

Double Shot #699 »

Created at: 27.04.2010 13:10, source: A Fresh Cup, tagged: Double Shot

Edging up on 700 of these, I see.

• Haml/Sass 3 Release Candidate 1 Released - Features are frozen now, so a fine time to jump in even if you generally avoid the bleeding edge.
• Cinch: The IRC Microframework - New code for building IRC bots in Ruby.
• pdfcrowd - Convert HTML to PDF, with both an interactive online version and an API.
• CritoTech - Transparent encryption for MySQL.
• markupslicer - Slice HTML markup into HAML or ERB dynamic templates.
• Casein - Yet another Rails CMS.
• Like it? Tweet it! - jQuery-powered widget to allow easily forwarding your own blog content as a tweet.
• Remove ow.ly toolbar - Greasemonkey script to get rid of one more of life's little annoyances.

Double Shot #698 »

Created at: 26.04.2010 13:11, source: A Fresh Cup, tagged: Double Shot

And so another week creaks into existence.

• Rawr - Packaging and deployment tool for JRuby.
• Facebook is the Private Beta of the Semantic Web - Well, maybe. If so, I guess I'm getting off the bus before it gets to semanticland.

Double Shot #697 »

Created at: 23.04.2010 12:32, source: A Fresh Cup, tagged: Double Shot

It's been something of a slow week around here.

• OAuth2 Gem: Just in Time For Facebook's Graph - Intridea provides some help if you want to start poking at the latest Facebook APIs.
• Tickle - Natural language parsing gem for recurring events, building on Chronic.