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Double Shot #691 »

Created at: 15.04.2010 14:14, source: A Fresh Cup, tagged: Double Shot

It's getting to be time to radically simplify some parts of life again.

• Render 'Rails Style' Partials in Sinatra - Using Sinatra as a design tool for Rails views, interesting.
• Automated Heroku Backups - Get your data off to S3 for safekeeping.

Double Shot #690 »

Created at: 14.04.2010 14:16, source: A Fresh Cup, tagged: Double Shot

I spotted a greenfield app in the wild yesterday. Whether I can hunt it down is another question.

• jQuery.popeye 2.0 - inline alternative to lightbox-style image display.
• IronRuby 1.0 - It's out.
• Rails 3.0: Third beta release - This is out too. Read the comments if you're upgrading from a previous beta.

Double Shot #689 »

Created at: 13.04.2010 13:28, source: A Fresh Cup, tagged: Double Shot

Can I really be edging up on 700 of these?

• monkeyfly - Well-done multicolumn Greasemonkey script for Twitter.
• Flask - Micro web development framework for Python.

Double Shot #688 »

Created at: 12.04.2010 13:42, source: A Fresh Cup, tagged: Double Shot

I'm not the only one who thinks Apple is going down the wrong path with their new restrictions on what tools you can use to code for the iPhone. A few other opinions around the web:

• The Absurdity of Apple’s New iPhone Restrictions - Larry Wright looks at the stupidity of this move from a coding and architectural standpoint.
• Apple’s kneecaps competitors and partners - Rafe Colburn is also worried about what this means for Apple in general.
• Steve Jobs Has Just Gone Mad - Hank Williams comes up with the killer quote: "If you need to 'originally' write your code in Swahili, while listening to Milli Vanilli, while reclining in a patch of mud, and then you need fifty oompa loompas to translate the Swahili into C, that is none of Steve Jobs fucking business."
• Apple Computer's Ultimate Fail - Sam Watkins ends with "You are making Microsoft look good by comparison."
• Steve Jobs Says, "Fuck You Ruby Fanbois" - And just for fun, Zed Shaw takes advantage of the angst to kick the deluded folks who think Ruby is the be-all and end-all of writing software.

• [ANN] Camping 2.0 - minature rails for stay-at-home moms - There's something to be said for a web framework that fits into the release announcement email.
• JavaScript Testing with Cucumber and Capybara - Some day I'll have time to look more seriously into this.
• jStorage - Wrapper to allow Prototype, MooTools, or jQuery store data on the browser side.
• capybara-envjs - More testing glue for web applications.

Double Shot #687 »

Created at: 09.04.2010 12:56, source: A Fresh Cup, tagged: Double Shot

I quit developing for the Windows platform because of Microsoft's bluntly anti-competitive behavior. Fortunately for me, I never started developing for the OS/X or iWhatever platform, so Apple's bluntly anti-competitive behavior has less effect on me. Hopefully the web will remain a viable platform for at least a few more years. It is, however, getting less likely that my next computer will be a Mac, no matter how nice they are.

• Ultra-light jQuery calendar - Another take on a reasonably small date selector.
• Ruby on Rails - Proof positive that the time of the "automated encyclopedia" has not yet arrived.