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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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 use (and detest) to...
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Small child is back on early waking cycle, so you get an early cup.Increase Firefox 3.* Performance by Optimizing the SQLite Databases – Probably of marginal use unless you’re a really heavy user.
auth_helpers – Extra code modules for authlogic to save you from writing the common bits like password...
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Life goes on after Snow Leopard.Dear Github – I’m seeing more rumblings of discontent with GitHub lately. As a paying customer myself, I certainly hope their plans to fix
things come to fruition relatively quickly.
Codaset – And these guys look like a potential GitHub competitor, now in closed beta.
FireCrystal – Firefox extension that provides a...
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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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The 1.0 release of Rails Freelancing Handbook is out. Head over to the site to pick up your copy if you’re registered, or to find out how to buy one if you haven’t already.distance_of_time_in_words – This version by Ryan Bigg removes the vagueness in the Rails core version.
Mercurial: The Definitive Guide – Online book...
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My latest production, released over the weekend: Rails Freelancing Handbook.cmon – Cutesy HTML preprocessor for columnar/tabular cross-browser layouts
Bluefeather – Another alternative/extended Markdown converter.
Bag O’Links – By the way, Elad Meidar is also doing a great link blog, in case Fresh Cup isn’t enough for you.
Installing And Using SQLite With Ruby On Windows – Helpful...
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Early morning with small child and thunderstorms.Passenger/Nginx much better than Mongrel (at least for StatSheet) – Not clear how much of this is stack and how much is application style, but it’s an interesting data point.
The Great Ruby IDE Smackdown of ‘09 – Chad Woolley puts a few through their pages, and likes RubyMine.
Critical...
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Lots of interesting new stuff showed up over the weekend:i18n – The i18n gem has reached version 0.2.0 with lambda support among other goodies.
can_touch_this – A permissions system extracted from rboard.
sort_by – Active Record/ Action View extension to produce user-sorted, paginated tables in your views.
Posterous now supports TrailerAddict embeds and Github Gist code drops....
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If you’re using Highrise or Basecamp and miss not having favicons load in your browser, you can install either of the following greasemonkey scripts that I created.
Basecamp Favicon
Highrise FaviconThese will just add a little html to the page to load some favicons that I created from their logos. Will look like this:Hopefully 37signals will...
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