
Book Status Beta 5 should be out today, with the legacy and the Rails 3. Next up are the Shoulda and RSpec chapters, starting with figuring out how to handle the changes in Shoulda since I last wrote the chapter. Rails I’m sure all of you within the interest circle of this blog already...
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Tags: 37signals, css, Geek Out, rails 3
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Earlier this week our new podcast was approved and is now available in the Apple iTunes Store. We’re also soliciting topic ideas for future episodes on brainstormr.
We posted Episode 2, The Letter Scotch, yesterday for your enjoyment. In this episode, we covered a handful of web browser tools that we...
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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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Tags: css, Double Shot, testing
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We’re currently waiting to get our new podcast approved by Apple, but have uploaded episode 1 to tumblr in the meantime.
In this short episode, we cover the following topics:
We’re planning to keep this short and focused to a few topics. Once it’s...
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Tags: authlogic, css, faker, gems, less, machinist, PLANET ARGON, Podcast, Ruby on Rails, textorize
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I’m putting in way too many late nights these days.BigOldRailsTemplate (or alternate location) – I’m still tucking new stuff into here, most recently support for deploying to Heroku.
CodeRack Rack Middleware Contest – With prizes for the best Rack middleware.
On Gem Forking – More on Gemcutter’s plans, now that they’re the GitHub-recommended home for gems.
Spidr...
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Tags: css, Double Shot, gemcutter, gems, rack, rails, spidr, vim
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I don’t know about you, but I’m about ready for this month to be over.Why Stylesheet Abstraction Matters – A long argument in favor of SASS, with the expected debate in the comments. I’m starting to get convinced.
textorize: Pristine Font Rendering for the Web – Command-line tool to create web typography images.
Ruby Enterprise Edition...
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Tags: css, Double Shot, rails, REE, sass, textorize, wysihat
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Just a few odds and ends this morning.Compiling MySQL on Snow Leopard and Compiling Ruby, RubyGems, and Rails on Snow Leopard – A couple of useful guides from Dan Benjamin.
..and on the seventh day, Science created zsh – Shell setup help from Robby Russell.
CSS Sprites – Online tool to help build them.
Installing PostgreSQL on...
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Tags: css, Double Shot, os x, zsh
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Hopefully this will be the day to get rid of some of the peskier bugs.Baseline – Yet another CSS design framework.
Testing Paperclip on S3 with Cucumber & Factory Girl – A how-to from Thoughtbot.
Apigee – “Analytics and Protection for APIs and Mashups.” Looks quite useful if you want things like rate-throttling and don’t want...
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Tags: apigee, baseline, css, Double Shot, paperclip, ruby
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Who invented teeth, anyhow? Bad idea.Skype call recording with bookmarked, mind-mapped notes – Nice. Might be almost enough to make me start using Skype for voice calls.
A/Bingo – New plugin for Rails A/B testing. Looks pretty slick.about:me – Cute Firefox addin to show your usage trends.
I switched to Ruby 1.9 (and you should too)...
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Tags: abingo, bcrypt, css, Double Shot, elementor, firefox, nokogiri, rails, railsbridge, ruby, skype, ssh, twitter
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I’m back on the early shift this morning. With luck that will carry through to writing a bunch of code today.flow_pagination – Endless pagination (Twitter style) plugin for the popular will_paginate.
BigOldRailsTemplate – A Whole Dummy App in a Rails Template – A kind review from Rails Inside.
Rails BugMash on RailsBridge – Wrapup post from...
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Tags: bugmash, css, Double Shot, pagination, railsbridge, susy, wireframes
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