L33t Links #16
Funny Simpsons quote from an episode I watched yesterday: Bart meats a bunch of robots. “Hi, we’re abandoned robots too.” “I am not a robot, I’m a human!” “Ooh, how is it to feel?” “I said I’m a human, not a girl.”
Posts Tagged ‘apple’
Not the Kind of Speed Test You Thought
Today I sat quietly with a cup of tea and read a magazine. Suddenly my younger brother sprinted through the room and it made a lot of noise. He claimed that he was trying to measure how fast he was running, (using his iPod Touch) but the results made no sense. I asked if I could have a look at’em. “Speed Test”, which he’d downloaded from App Store, was for measuring download and upload speed. It’s a true story.
L33t Links #2
Splint, the ladybird, actually sat on my bag all day long yesterday. Sadly, on my way home it vanished. Too bad.
- How to securely store passwords (using bcrypt-ruby)
- How to build a popularity algorithm you can be proud of, really awesome article with lots and lots of math.
- common_name, a plugin that lets you avoid cluttering your application with
pluralize()andconstantize()calls, and the like. - routing_tricks, a plugin with more or less useful extensions to the Rails routing engine.
- 10 cool cross-browser CSS hacks, my cat would never think of them.
- Ruby’s metaprogramming toolbox, all the methods you need to know to be a metaprogramming ninja.
- Ryan Bigg’s Driver is now available for Linux. Great for me, as I’m running Ubuntu.
- “Using Apache as a BasicAuth proxy to an internal resource“, pretty neat trick from @bjeanes who works at Mocra.
- Another example of Apple’s pretty insane approval policies for App Store: “Your chat bubbles are too glossy!”
- Update: Support Details, cool service that allows customers to send all the technical data of their computer by email.