Caffeine Driven Development

• Life Below 600px, fight the fold
• The $5 Guerrilla User Test
• From TextMate to VIM for Rails Coders
• Hobo, and you thought Rails couldn’t be more convenient?
• Browser Performance Wishlist, yes please
• Customized Google Forms, by Mocra – neat
• Optimize your PNG’s with OptiPNG, with zero quality-loss!
• Ruby’s Implementation Does Not Define its Semantics
• The Complete Numeric Class, from Ruby Best Practices
• Vimium, “a Chrome extension that provides keyboard based navigation and control in the spirit of the Vim editor”
• How to spy on a Hash in Ruby
• The Skinny on Scopes (Formerly named_scope)
• Memoization and id2ref, things to watch out for in your mission to optimize application performance
• Spiking on a Rails 3 upgrade
• Official launch day: March 1st, of Codaset that is. With GitHub still being unstable after their host-move this is still a serious competitor
• MongoDB browser shell, like _why’s “Try Ruby – In Your Browser!” – but for Mongo!
• Notes on MongoDB, John Nunemaker learned something from this. That says it all
• Eloquent JavaScript, “An opinionated guide to programming” – readable online for free!
• Delorean, “lets you travel in time with Ruby by mocking Time.now”
• Using acts_as_archive instead of soft delete

• MongoTips, another blog by John Nunemaker
• Rails 3 Upgrade Handbook, I bought it and it was money well spent. Yours for $12
• HolyGrail, “execute browser-less, console-based, javascript + DOM code right from within your Rails test suite”
• XRefresh, “browser refresh automation for web developers”
• Beware of XHTML, a true eyeopener. You should read it!
• Rails 3 Generators: The Old Faithful
• Building Real-time web apps with Rails3
• Stubbing :new Considered Harmful
• Rails, Slashdotted: no problem
• Avoiding Rails 3 Dependency Hell With RVM
• Smooth Devoperations: Deploying Rails 3 with Moonshine
• Complex Nested Forms with Rails and Unobtrusive jQuery
• EZ-CSS
• RubyGems.org move complete, after several months of hard work
• Use a 503 for your Rails maintenance page

• The Evolution of a Ruby Programmer, very funny
• Gem in a Box, “Really simple rubygem hosting”
• Writing contingent Ruby code with #retryable, take a look at my comment at the bottom, too
• Ripple, “You Got your Riak in my Ruby”
• Alter Table Rails Plugin, very neat – should be part of Rails core
• Getting familiar with Rails 3
• jQuery with Rails 3, why is Prototype even still the default in Rails?
• Easy version management for Rails apps using VersionMaster and Capistrano, nice
• aruba, “Cucumber steps for driving out command line applications”
• The Power and Philosophy of Ruby, slides from talk by Matz
• AbstractQueryFactoryFactories and alias_method_chain: The Ruby Way
• wtfjs, “a collection of those very special irregularities, inconstancies and just plain painfully unintuitive moments for the language of the web”
• Vim Tips for Ruby (and your wrists), pure gold as I’m learning Vim at the moment
• Refraction, “Rack middleware replacement for mod_rewrite”
• Rails Metrics: know what is happening inside your Rails 3 application, there’s a screencast!
• How to Test your JavaScript Code with QUnit
• JavaScript: The World’s Most Misunderstood Programming Language
• Building Real-time web apps with Rails3
• Improved validations in Rails 3
• A Hint of Hubris
• Ketchup, “Tasty jQuery Form Validation”

• Monitoring Delayed Job with Bluepill and Capistrano
• Let Them Code Cake!, what a great idea! (No, seriously)
• Git 1.6.6.2, upgrade time!
• Bundler Schmundler
• Aliasing a method vs. defining a new one calling the old one – What’s fastest?, the code and results of the benchmark I did yesterday
• Rake task for deploying to Heroku, neat
• José Valim and Carl Lerche joins Rails core, not surprising at all
• Congratulations, great post by Ryan Bigg demonstrating how you benefit from “doing things right”
• Contacts, “A universal interface to import email contacts from various providers”
• Uniform, style checkboxes, drop down menus, radio buttons, and file upload inputs with jQuery
• Sexp for Rubyists, watch the video – it’s very cool
• How to make an RSS feed in Rails, which is in fact exactly what the article is not about
• Ruby Quicktips, “short, interesting and practical tidbits of the Ruby language and Ruby on Rails framework”

• Bye Bye Github, the recent outages have consequences
• The Initialization Guide, 10.000 words – Ryan Bigg needs your help to find mistakes in the guide
• Give Back to Open Source, a challenge Ryan Bates gives everyone in his 200th episode of Railscasts
• 52framework, the first framework to combine the powers of HTML5 and CSS3!
• D’Note, “will scan your source code for labeled comments, collect, collate and sort them, and then return them to you in a format of your choosing”
• Rake tasks to get database and table sizes, by Mike Gunderloy and Elad Meidar
• The Building Blocks of Ruby
• Rails 3 Routing with Rack
• Scope a variable to a block in your template code, from which I learned something new today
• ‘What’s New in Edge Rails’ Moves to EdgeRails.info
• Using Bundler in Real Life, which de-mystified Bundler for me
• Plugin Authors: Toward a Better Future
• Haml Sucks for Content, luckily it isn’t trying to be good at it
• sinatra_more, “Generators, helpers and extensions enabling complex sinatra apps”
• MongoDB is fast, surprised? No? How much faster, then?
• Memory leak patterns in JavaScript
• Javascript Objects – A Useful Example
• Why ruby? part three – method arguments
• toto, “the 10 second blog-engine for hackers”
• Customizing Generators in Rails 3, useful

The first beta of Rails 3 is out! These links are all related to the release:

• Is Rails 3.0 a Game Changer?
• Rails 3.0: Beta release
• Rails 3 Beta is Out — A Retrospective
• The Path to Rails 3: Greenfielding new apps with the Rails 3 beta
• Five Things You Can Do Today to Make Your App Ready For Ruby on Rails 3
• Signed and Permanent cookies in Rails 3
• The Rails Module (in Rails 3), that provides you with the root, env, and logger class methods
• Rails 3.0 Beta: 36 Links and Resources To Get You Going, in which my Rails 3 generator guide is included!
• Is Your Plugin Ready For Rails 3?, also included in the collection above but this is worth highlighting
• Bundle me some Rails, things to keep in mind while using Bundler

Un-related to the release:

• A Note on the Recent Outages, GitHub had three major outages this week – this is why
• Web Translate It, “sync your translations between your Rails app and Web Translate It”
• EventCalendar, “Easily show multiple, overlapping events across calendar days and rows”
• script/migrator for navigating migrations
• Trunks, “simple, developer focused source control at spouse-friendly prices” (and they’re free until they go out of beta!)
• Watch your self, brittle title but the article talks about blocks + instance_eval gotchas
• jQuery 1.4, MooTools 1.2 Compared
• Free Rails 3 upgrade screencast, and it’s live coding!

• Friendly, “NoSQL with MySQL in Ruby”
• smart_cookie_store, “Fixes the Rails CookieStore lazy loading so that empty sessions don’t get sent to the client”
• Delayed::Paperclip, “Process your Paperclip attachments in the background with delayed_job”
• Rack::ForceIE7, forces IE8 into IE7 compatibility mode, making it behave like IE7
• Rails 3 I18n changes
• Creating macros in vim
• Why use HAML (and SASS)? I already know HTML
• 3 times ActiveSupport 3, “3 random new methods added to ActiveSupport”
• Ruby on Rails 3.0 Beta Release Notes
• Where did the scripts go?, where the scripts that was moved out of the script/ directory went
• Where’s Waldo: Track user locations with Node.js and Redis
• The Four Cs of JavaScript, “some of JavaScript’s more useful features and patterns”
• GMoney, “A RubyGem for Interacting with the Google Finance API”

• Exploring Rails 3, a free two-hour online conference featuring Yehuda Katz, Gregg Pollack, Jeremy Kemper, and Ryan Tomayko
• Find all online users with Authlogic
• validates :rails_3, :awesome => true
• Bundler 0.9: Heading Toward 1.0
• SafeBuffers and Rails 3.0
• Express, “Sinatra-like JavaScript node.js web development framework — insanely fast, insanely sexy”
• Chartbeat, “gives you real-time analytics so that you know what’s happening when it’s happening”
• Why Arel?
• Unobtrusive JS In Rails 3 With Prototype, I think it’s the first time I see the words “unobtrusive” and “Prototype” in the same sentence
• Shoebox, “helps you manage styles and scripts as first-class citizens in Rails”
• wizardly, “create a functioning wizard for any model in three steps”
• Gemcutter January 2010 Changelog, a few nice feature additions