Caffeine Driven Development

• HTML-Ipsum, designing with real data/content is still better, though
• Canable, simple permissions for Rails by John Nunemaker
• Using Sinatra to test remote services in Rails, “gem that provides a simple interface to instantiate that Sinatra application and to manage the mocked webservice interface”
• Choosing a non-relational database; why we migrated from MySQL to MongoDB and Notes from a production MongoDB deployment, from BoxedIce
• Mongrations, “Migrations for MongoMapper”
• Branch Lists and Introducing GitHub Compare View, new awesome features on GitHub
• Environment specific files and gitignore
• Zen, “a simple, flexible, and cost-effective way to manage your work”
• Fear and Loathing in JavaScript DSLs
• How NodeJS saved my web application
• Schema-Free MySQL vs NoSQL
• Practical Uses of CSS3
• AuthlogicGenerator, “generator plugin for authlogic”
• Gist: The Script, “Absolutely the best command line gister”
• Unobtrusive, yet explicit
• Metaprogramming: Ruby vs. Javascript
• SnippetStash, “Store, organize, and share your code snippets with others”

• 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

• 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!

• ASP.NET vs Rails MVC, hint: the Rails version is three times shorter
• SublimeVideo, HTML5 video player
• Quix, “Your Bookmarklets, On Steroids”
• rails security review checklist
• Park your Horse, Code Cowboy: Professional JavaScript Workflows, Part 1, “the first in a series of guest posts on professional Javascript techniques, by Amy Hoy”
• Diff Your Gist, neat UserScripts for GitHub
• Readability, “a simple tool that makes reading on the Web more enjoyable”
• Bayesian Classification on Rails
• rails-upgrade: Automating a portion of the Rails 3 upgrade process
• ThinkingSphinx exits, enters ActsAsSolrReloaded
• Using Multiple Rubies Seamlessly On The One Machine With Rvm
• rakegrowl, “Get Growled when your long running rake tasks finish”
• Conversational and short URLs on Rails
• A Simple Pattern for Ruby’s inject method
• World Time Format Converter, I wonder if he thought the short version of this name through?

• Closing in on Last Call for the Beta, of Rails 3 that is
• Why Mocra Is Awesome
• CSS3 pseudo selector emulation for Internet Explorer 5-8
• A successful Git branching model
• Rails Quick Tip: Readable Conditional Validation
• Scaffolds != Rails
• JavaScript as a teaching tool: Learn classic computer science approaches using a language you probably already know
• Explore GitHub, yet another way to waste time on GitHub
• Jaml, “beautiful HTML generation for JavaScript”

And another blog post that links to my BugMash articles:

• Rails 3 Reading Material

Thanks Maxim Chernyak! (Aka hakunin)

• Render Options in Rails 3
• Jubilator, an “attempt to make the GitHub repository browsing experience better”
• Ruby Call Center, funny video featuring one of Envy Lab’s client jobs
• Paperboy, “A node.js module for delivering static files”
• The Demise of CSS: Why Sass And Languages Like It Will Triumph
• AridCache, “Automates efficient caching of your ActiveRecord collections”
• Hammertime, “An interactive error console for Ruby”
• Let your SQL Growl in Rails 3
• Navvy, “Simple Ruby background job processor”

The blog posts that link to one of or both of my BugMash articles:

• Rails Bugmash an exciting first experience
• Discovering Rails 3 generators
• Rails Bugmash 2010

These and the people that shared my articles on Twitter has generated a lot of traffic on my blog an won me a few more subscribers as well. Thanks!

• Node.js For My Tiny Ruby Brain
• Distributed Ruby with the MagLev VM
• Highcharts, “Interactive JavaScript charts for your web pages”
• Websockets made easy with Cramp
• jQuery 1.4 API Cheat Sheet
• TinyMCE on GitHub, another large project joins the party
• How JavaScript Timers Work, important to know
• Notification Improvements, awesome but about time
• git-goggles, “a git management utilities that allows you to manage your source code as it evolves through its development lifecycle”
• Nested Form, “Rails plugin to conveniently handle multiple models in a single form”
• Churn, “a gem for class and method level churn rates”

• Ruby script for setting up a Rails Edge (3.0.pre) application
• Powerful Color Manipulation with Sass
• Introducing RCapture, “a Ruby library that allows placing hooks on methods using a convenient interface”
• Ruby Net::HTTP cheat sheet, “A collection of Ruby Net::HTTP examples”
• Rspec 2 and Rails 3
• Find By Hash, “Extension to ActiveRecord to allow you to do findy-thingies with hashes”
• fixwidth, “Bookmarklet, wrapping in a 600px centered div. Improves readability on 100% width pages”
• Improved Commit Diffs on GitHub. Absolutely awesome
• How to keep your Vim Plugins up to date
• NXdom, “Short domain name search”
• TipTip, tooltip jQuery plugin

• Spinning up a new Rails app, on edge that is
• Hidden features of Ruby
• The Craziest F***ing Bug I’ve Ever Seen
• Get your Github news feed in Tweetie
• Writing Ruby Extensions, in C that is
• (JavaScript) Anti-patterns in the making
• Rendera, “Online HTML5 Editor”