A Fresh Cup is Mike Gunderloy's software development weblog, covering Ruby on Rails and whatever else I find interesting in the universe of software. I'm a full-time Rails developer and contributor, available for long- or short-term consulting, with solid experience in working as part...
Monday, March 26, 2012 at 7:26AM Posting from California. Imagine you can feel the desert heat. TypeButter - Kerning plugin for jQuery, just in case you want to twiddle the fonts on your website. Polishing Rubies (Part 3): Tools for Testing - Michael Bleigh continues his series on con...
Friday, March 23, 2012 at 6:02AM Had a fine day in the woods yesterday, so not too many links today. Cloudinary - "Manage You Website's Assets in the Cloud" offers image processing, chained transformations, and a RESTful API for bringing things back to your site. A Capistrano Rails Gu...
Thursday, March 22, 2012 at 5:13AM Today it's off to the woods to play in the mud for the Boy Scouts. Continuous Cache Warming for Rails - If I said I'd never indulged in this sort of hackery I'd be lying. strong_parameters - Official Rails plugin to support taint and required checkin...
Wednesday, March 21, 2012 at 6:44AM I'd feel more heroic about staying up till midnight fixing a bug if the bug were not my fault. Server-side Upgrades - I've been trapped with old code again and again; the proposal to budget 20% of your time to upgrading and refactoring is sensible. ...
Tuesday, March 20, 2012 at 6:28AM Packing bits for a trip takes at least as much time as packing atoms. Punch - The latest offering for building brochure sites, this one using Mustache templates with JSON. Hosted NoSQL - A rundown of some of the available commercial offerings. Two New...
Monday, March 19, 2012 at 5:02AM Week of March 11-March 17, 2012 The big news this week: Active Resource has been removed from Rails, and "API only" Rails applications put in a brief appearance before going back to the drawing board. Text fields and text areas no longer have default s...
is Mike Gunderloy's software development weblog, covering Ruby on Rails and whatever else I find interesting in the universe of software. I'm a full-time Rails developer and contributor, available for long- or short-term consulting, with solid experience in working as part of a distri...
Confession time : my string of daily contributions to open source crashed and burned shortly after the last Open Source Report. Things heated up at two of my paying clients, to the point where I've been stumbling out of bed, having breakfast, and diving right into paid code. Time to g...
Thursday, March 15, 2012 at 5:39AM Early morning treadmill and sun lamp keep me mildly sane. Sparrow for iPhone - If I actually had an iPhone this would be the mail client for me. Nodester - "an open source Node.JS Platform-as-a-Service written in Node.JS with a RESTful API designed t...
Wednesday, March 14, 2012 at 6:02AM Morning has broken. Someone needs to put it back together. Firefox 11 is now available - Must mean it's about time for me to update to Firefox 14. Here's info on new features . And here's a look at where Firefox is going in 2012 . Remove Active Reso...
Tuesday, March 13, 2012 at 5:14AM If this isn't spring it's sure close. A year without a winter is fine by me. one9 - Project to help move your Ruby 1.8.7 code to 1.9 by running your tests and then reporting on what needs to change. Short, explicit test setups - How to save a few keys...
is Mike Gunderloy's software development weblog, covering Ruby on Rails and whatever else I find interesting in the universe of software. I'm a full-time Rails developer and contributor, available for long- or short-term consulting, with solid experience in working as part of a distri...
is Mike Gunderloy's software development weblog, covering Ruby on Rails and whatever else I find interesting in the universe of software. I'm a full-time Rails developer and contributor, available for long- or short-term consulting, with solid experience in working as part of a distri...
Monday, March 12, 2012 at 6:24AM Habits come in many shapes and sizes. Polishing Rubies: A Guide to Ruby Open Source Development (Part I) - Michael Bleigh starts a new series with a look at rubygems. Getting the Most out of Bundler Groups - Smart use of groups can minimize loading tim...
is Mike Gunderloy's software development weblog, covering Ruby on Rails and whatever else I find interesting in the universe of software. I'm a full-time Rails developer and contributor, available for long- or short-term consulting, with solid experience in working as part of a distri...
is Mike Gunderloy's software development weblog, covering Ruby on Rails and whatever else I find interesting in the universe of software. I'm a full-time Rails developer and contributor, available for long- or short-term consulting, with solid experience in working as part of a distri...
Tuesday, March 6, 2012 at 5:14AM Someone has been feeding my inbox growth hormones. I wish they'd stop. iPad HTTP Debugging with Charles - Run iPad traffic through a desktop proxy. Useful. Crew - Code review tool for git projects based on a branching model. sudo_attributes - Methods f...
Monday, March 5, 2012 at 5:51AM Week of February 26-March 3, 2012 The big news this week is the switch to requiring whitelisting all Active Record attributes by default. (See Double Shot #831 for some of the nonsense that led up to this). The impact is simple: you need to add an attr_...
Monday, March 5, 2012 at 5:32AM Long weekend out with the Boy Scouts helping people clean up after tornadoes. Puts a lot of this software nonsense in perspective. wow how come I commit in master? O_o - Big kerfluffle over the weekend when this commit appeared in Rails master. The bott...
is Mike Gunderloy's software development weblog, covering Ruby on Rails and whatever else I find interesting in the universe of software. I'm a full-time Rails developer and contributor, available for long- or short-term consulting, with solid experience in working as part of a distri...
Thursday, March 1, 2012 at 6:15AM Someone apparently decided that today was my day to exercise the telephone. TConsole 1.1 - Dedicated testing console for MiniTest and Rails. Lets you easily pick and choose what tests to run, and manage Rails reloading. Rails Lightweight Stack - How t...
Wednesday, February 29, 2012 at 7:06AM So…I have in fact been sticking to my "do something for open source every day" resolution. What I haven't managed to do is keep up these blog entries about it! Well, time for a reset. Here's a fast list of what I've done the past few weeks, and p...
Double Shot was delayed by tornado this morning. A reminder that some things are more important than coding (fortunately, it missed us by a few miles). How to Disable iPad Home Button - Yes, you can run an iPad in Kiosk mode. xVim - Vim key-bindings for things like xCode. I can't fath...
Tuesday, February 28, 2012 at 5:03AM The promise of the future is often weighed down by the mistakes of the past. Konacha - Rails-aware javascript testing framework that integrates with the asset pipeline. OKAdmin - A custom theme for the RailsAdmin gem. Mutation Testing With Mutant -...
Monday, February 27, 2012 at 5:58AM Week of February 19-February 25, 2012 The biggest news this week comes on the REST front, with PATCH replacing PUT as the preferred verb for updating existing records. This has provoked some flaming and snarking (in which I have indulged ), but on t...
Monday, February 27, 2012 at 5:45AM This week's keyword: survive. The Sun is Setting on Rails-style MVC Frameworks - Oh noes, my skills are about to be obsolete again. smeagol - Sets up a basic open source development environment on a new OS X machine. Chaplin - Sample application arc...
Friday, February 24, 2012 at 5:46AM Sometimes, it's all you can do to stay a fixed amount behind. Rails Went Off The Rails: Why I'm Rebuilding Archaeopteryx In CoffeeScript - A classic Giles rant. Skip to the last paragraph for the summary "The Merb integration rewrite was a giant, ti...
Thursday, February 23, 2012 at 5:34AM Very tired of "are we there yet?" emails at the moment. WhySQL - Evernote explains that at their current scale they have no need for NoSQL - and good reasons for ACID. Rails Release Candidates - There's a new round of them out for the 3.0, 3.1, an...
Wednesday, February 22, 2012 at 6:11AM Today I ship my last Windows server off to a good home. Amazon Simple Workflow - Workflow management in the cloud, of course tied in to all the other Amazon web services. atea - Open source menu bar time tracker for OS X that maintains state in t...
