Double Shot #869
Cleaning out the browser tabs after another busy weekend.
Cynical Agile and Scrum Dictionary - Agile meets Ambrose Bierce to form an instant classic.
Concerned about Code Reuse? - An introduction to ActiveSupport::Concern, an underused tool.
SSL_c...
The Mega April 2012 Ruby and Rails News Roundup
Welcome to April 2012's bumper pick'n'mix of Ruby and Rails news and releases, fresh from the pages of Ruby Weekly.
Highlights include: Matz's new Ruby implementation, MobiRuby (Ruby for iOS), Passenger 3.0.12, Ruby 1.9.3-p194, TorqueBox 2.0, Adhearsion 2.0, and Dr Nic's App Scrolls.
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Double Shot #868
About to push another week into the dustbin of history.
A sneak preview of Phusion Passenger 3.2, part 2 - Passenger is still out there, and the next release is out in pre-release. It's got notably lower memory requirements for one thing.
TotalSpac...
Double Shot #867
Oh, for a 36-hour day.
Laconic - Nice way to create DOM elements from JavaScript, without all that appendChild nonsense.
Routes refactor - DHH shows a way to ease complexity by breaking routes.rb up into multiple files.
iwanttolearnruby - A bunch ...
Online Ruby Programming Course from Pragmatic Studio
Online Ruby Programming Course from Pragmatic Studio
Double Shot #866
I seem to have misplaced a day this week. That's not good.
Postgres.app - Easy installer for PostgeSQL on OS X.
WebPagetest - Collect an overwhelming amount of data on page loading performance from real browsers scattered around the world.
Mini te...
Self-assessment
Here’s what I’ve got. 2 chapters introducing jQuery and Jasmine via a walkthrough of a simple piece of JavaScript functionality. 1 need to convert all my text from its current proprietary format to something more Markdown based. 1 genuinely silly conceit tying together the application that gets built in the book. And I mean that...
Double Shot #865
With a lot of folks off at RailsConf, this will probably be a quiet week on the interwebs.
Cloak - Subscription-based VPN designed to integrate with OS X and iOS devices.
GitHub does dotfiles - "Your unofficial guide to dotfiles on GitHub."
Mainer...
#344 Queue Classic
PostgreSQL can act as a worker queue which can replace the need for a separate process to manage the background jobs. Here you will learn how to do this with the queue_classic gem.
Ruby in 2012
Ruby is more popular than ever, but it’s also not as trendy as it used to be. rubylearning.com students1 asked a few questions to Matt Aimonetti about his vision of Ruby in 2012 and for the future. Matt Aimonetti is a well-known Rubyist, technical writer, speaker and active open-source contributor. He currently works as a...
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