Thursday, April 12, 2012 at 5:08AM Today: time to help set up the gun ranges for the spring Scouting season. fivemat - Test formatter that uses one row of dots per file to help you keep track of progress through your test suite. Amazon CloudSearch - Amazon is adding their search techn...
Wednesday, April 11, 2012 at 5:44AM If the price of civilization is paperwork, it's not clear we're getting a good deal. Meteor - Another pure-JavaScript web framework. Greenfield - Ruby web application skeleton that lashes together sinatra, sprockets, compass, and a few other things....
Tuesday, April 10, 2012 at 7:34AM Running late today. Story of my life. twitter/mysql - Twitter has released their MySQL fork. I'll be amused to watch all the people who rush to use it without considering whether they have any of the problems it's designed to overcome. Harness - Conne...
Week of April 1 - April 7, 2012 Although there were quite a few commits this past week, nearly all of them were to the docrails project, cleaning up the Guides and related documentation. On the new features front, Rails appears to have mostly taken a week off. 99c08c70 cleans up some ...
Monday, April 9, 2012 at 6:15AM Had a fun weekend digging into the asset pipeline . lograge - Minimal logging for Rails applications. Personally I like the verbose log but ymmv. The future of MacRuby - Looks fairly dismal to me, actually. But they're asking people to get involved. Sta...
I've come to the conclusion that it's time to understand what's going on with the Rails 3.2 asset pipeline - primarily because I'm trying to upgrade a Rails 3.0 application and so far the process has been a complete disaster for me. So, I'm going back to first principles. Perhaps some...
Friday, April 6, 2012 at 5:28AM End of the week? Hooray! Schnitzelpress 0.2.0 - New release of this blogging engine is even simpler to use. Free iPad App from IBM and Eames Office, Reinvents Iconic '60s-Era Infographic on History of Math - Took me back to childhood trips to the Califo...
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Wednesday, April 4, 2012 at 5:21AM Enjoying a blast of high-intensity light. Pixen - I needed a simple OS X image editor to just let me flip a few pixels. This proved to be it. What's the best way to polish your design? - Snicker-worthy domain. Hidden Secrets of the Chrome Developer T...
Tuesday, April 3, 2012 at 5:51AM New goal: Inbox-don't-get-clients-so-angry-they-fire-me. Startups, this is how design works - An introduction to "design" for developers. I'm somewhat skeptical of current design trends, but there are some useful ideas and resources here. Novocaine - O...
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Monday, April 2, 2012 at 6:12AM All worn out from weekend Scouting events. And wishing it was still the weekend, too. SMACSS and SASS - The future of stylesheets - A review of the SMACSS process of creating CSS modules. Don't break the Internet with your Javascript - Some thoughts abo...
Friday, March 30, 2012 at 6:10AM Ending the week with a bang. Rails 3,2,3rc2 has been released! - Not too many changes here, but there's an important tweak to handling fragment caching for remote forms. cashier - Use tags to replace complex multipart keys when working with the Rails c...
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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...
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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...
