Up for my first manic burst of work for the day.DailyJS – A roundup of JavaScript stuff from Alex Young, Ric Roberts, and Justin Knowlden. It’s off to a promising start.
Fixtures without validation with Factory Girl – Nice idea for generating bad data in a concise and repeatable way.
fast_fixture – Develop with MyISAM, test...
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I’m starting to feel like a sleep deprivation experiment. Good thing other people are writing good software still.Devise: authentication for lazy programmers – Lots of activity in this project lately.
Gity – New git client for OS X. Early days yet, free at the moment. Looks like the goal is to give us menu/keystroke replacements...
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Today’s challenge: Ziya Charts. If I’m not back tomorrow, I lost.Mockingbird: New Cappucino-based wireframing tool. iPlotz and MockFlow are two other tools in this space (was just looking into this for a client yesterday).
First look at rails 3.0.pre – Dr. Nic dives into getting started and using generators.
Introducing Resque – The GitHub guys have...
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Thanks to everyone who commiserated about my pinched nerve issues. I think I’m still a fair way from death’s door.jQuery Grid Rails Plugin – I keep meaning to look at the jQuery datagrid. Maybe this will encourage me.
gdb.rb – gdb7 hooks for MRI. A fresh way to be nosy about running ruby code....
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Busy weekend. Let’s unload some of these browser tabs.Improving Code using Metric_fu – A concrete example of how metrics can drive better code.
Eventbug (alpha) Released – New firebug extension to help in debugging event-related issues.
Firefox 3.6 Beta 1 – Probably about time for developers to think about upgrading. I’ve been running 3.7 alphas with...
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Been a very long week, but I’m happy with the way various projects are improving.Amazon RDS: Amazon Relational Database Service or MySQL in the Cloud for Ruby On Rails. – A quick How-To.
yUMLmeRails – Rake tasks and Shoes app to create model diagrams for Rails. (via Under the Hat)...
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There is no apparent end of code that needs to be written.wysihat-engine-demo – Quick way to see the wysihat editing control in action.
RailsBridge Bugmash VM Script – Script to build your own server to test the Rails source code from zero.
bigrecord – ActiveRecord replacement to use distributed stores like HBase.
Heroku Add-ons – Solr, New...
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Today I think I shall be a performance expert.Funding Thinking Sphinx – Pat Allen is looking for sponsorship to spend a month working on the Thinking Sphinx plugin. That’s a good cause.
Mu – Facebook Connect library written in JavaScript.
Introducing Amazon RDS – The Amazon Relational Database Service – Essentially, canned MySQL servers...
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I wonder what language I’ll be writing code in five years from now?Fukuoka Ruby Award 2010 – There’s some money to be had out there for the right projects.
Transition – Gemcutter is becoming the default gem host for the Ruby community.
riot – Another ruby unit-testing framework, focused on speed.
Ruby Enterprise Edition 1.8.7-2009.10 released –...
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Not too much of note over the weekend. Maybe everyone was at startup school.eCSStender 1.0 – Javascript to bludgeon older browsers into paying attention to advanced CSS.
shindo – “Simple depth first ruby testing” provides yet another test framework.
assert{2.0} – And here’s “the industry’s most aggressive TDD system” which uses reflection to dump debugging information...
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