Ruby on Rails Planet

Created at: 23.03.2010 13:26, source: A Fresh Cup, tagged: Double Shot

Whatever happened to kids just playing in the mud and enjoying it?

Hunting bugs thru history - Darn, there's a way to automate git-bisect that I never knew about. Excellent secret teachings.
Firediff 1.0 - See the changes on a web page via Firebug. Looks great for debugging client-side DOM issues.
JavaScript Encryption and Decryption - I may actually have a client use for this technique. AES in JavaScript.
FireSass Bridges the Gap Between Sass and Firebug - And gives you Sass line numbers to debug from.
kilt - Growl integration for Pivotal Tracker projects.

Created at: 22.03.2010 12:42, source: A Fresh Cup, tagged: Double Shot

Spring Camp week for the kids, but that doesn't make the parents any less busy.

MessagePack - Another object serialization library, this one designed to minimize the traffic and be fast.
WebROaR - New application server for Rails that claims to be faster and handle higher loads than the alternatives.
Blue Light Special - Quickly set up authentication, authorization, and some other conveniences thanks to the Envy Labs guys.
Onfire brings bubbling events to your Ruby objects - And so it does.
King of API - "A selection of building blocks for your app," this site is collecting information on the various billing, video, maps, and other APIs you might find it useful to call. There's also Cloudomatic, which focuses on SAAS apps that may or may not have an API.
SimplyStored - AR-like convenience layer for CouchDB or SimpleDB.
CouchDBX - One-step CouchDB package for OS X.
CloudCache - On-demand caching in the cloud.
Farbtastic - I needed a jQuery color picker, and this one worked out nicely.
Masked Input Plugin - Another chunk of jQuery that fulfilled a client requirement for me.
Impel - Javascript to HTML 5 ORM.

Created at: 19.03.2010 13:18, source: A Fresh Cup, tagged: Double Shot

Early mornings are the good time - before the world wakes up to overload me.

Express - Web development framework for Node.js.
MySQL Reference for OS X - Useful little cheat sheet for administrative tasks.
f.lux - Automatically update your computer's lighting for the time of day.

Created at: 18.03.2010 12:48, source: A Fresh Cup, tagged: Double Shot

There are times I actually think I know what I'm doing.

jQuery.Syntax - Lightweight syntax highlighter.
Find Icons - Search engine for free icons.
Timing Ruby Code - It Is Easy With Benchmark - Reminder of one of the ruby conveniences I often forget.
Ruby Best Practices - You can now download this entire Ruby book for free.

Created at: 17.03.2010 13:23, source: A Fresh Cup, tagged: Double Shot

It was a quiet day on the edge of madness.

Rit. – The anti-CMS content scheduling system in Rails - A different approach to solving the problem of content updating. Here's the code.
Agile git Workflow - Some good crib notes for new git users.


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