Double Shot #625 »

Created at: 13.01.2010 14:06, source: A Fresh Cup, tagged: Double Shot bombax cms jquery os x sandstone workflow

Next couple of weeks are looking super busy. Better than the alternative by far.

  • I Have No Talent - Words well worth reading from John Nunemaker. There are ample ways to succeed in this business without being some sort of uber-coding genius. Trust me, I know.
  • I Am Not a Master but a Solutionist - And Rob Bazinet chimes in to promote getting the job done.
  • Sandstone - One more approach to CMS in Rails. Looks like there are several active branches with no one merging them though.
  • Vote for Barbie's Next Career - "Computer engineer" is in the running.
  • TotalFinder - Using SIMBL to make Finder better in Snow Leopard.
  • TipTip JjQuery Plugin - A simple custom tooltip plugin.
  • Bombax - Objective-C and Cocoa web development framework. No thanks.
  • workflow - Another state machine alternative for Ruby.


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Double Shot #623 »

Created at: 11.01.2010 13:31, source: A Fresh Cup, tagged: Double Shot actionmailer hamster jquery plugins rails resque

Remember, the next RailsBridge BugMash is this coming weekend. Join us to hammer on Rails 3 and maybe win a prize.

  • Stock Names - A lovely spoof.
  • State of the Stack - New Relic looks at what's being used for Rails applications based on their users. Ruby 1.9 penetration remains negligible.
  • Apycom - Nice-looking selection of jQuery menus, though they do charge a minor fee if you want unobfuscated code.
  • Hamster - Efficient, immutable, thread-safe collection classes for Ruby.
  • ResqueMailer - Asynchronous mail from ActionMailer via Resque.
  • Coda-Slider 2.0 - Nice jQuery plugin to swap pages of text in an animated fashion.
  • 14 Days of jQuery - And speaking of jQuery, looks like they have a bunch of stuff planned in conjunction with the 1.4 release.
  • WEBrick has an Escape Sequence Injection vulnerability - Security issue that affects all versions of Ruby from 1.8.6 onward. Thankfully it looks pretty obscure.
  • tracked_plugins - Manage your Rails plugins with extra metadata.


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Double Shot #618 »

Created at: 04.01.2010 14:31, source: A Fresh Cup, tagged: Double Shot css javascript jquery mysql passenger rssowl sphinx textmate

Well, at least it's January.

  • Primer - Paste in HTML, get back a CSS stylesheet with all the classes and IDs listed.
  • jLinq - LINQ style querying in Javascript. This is getting out of hand.
  • Save MySQL! - You know, if the MySQL founders wanted to exercise so much control over its future, maybe they shouldn't have sold the company.
  • RSSOwl 2.0.2 - A new release of a desktop RSS reader. That's a rare occurence these days.
  • hanoi - Some glue for automated jQuery testing.
  • netrecorder - Record actual network traffic for later use with fakeweb.
  • A Month in the Life of Thinking Sphinx - Lots of nice changes to this gem lately.
  • phd - Push deployments for passenger.
  • ReMate - TextMate plugin to disable automatic project tree refresh, making TM more useful against remote shares.


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Double Shot #611 »

Created at: 23.12.2009 18:57, source: A Fresh Cup, tagged: Double Shot bundler capistrano css friendly jquery rails statistics websockets

Know what day it is? Nope, not 2 days before Christmas: it's the 1-year anniversary of the announcement of the Rails and Merb merger! It's a good thing we don't need Rails 3 to build good web applications.


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