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

• 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”

Maybe I can get back to publishing this once a day?

• Hanoi, “Automated jQuery tests with QUnit”
• PrimerCSS, “pulls out all of your classes and id’s and places them into a starter stylesheet”
• Cryptic Ruby Global Variables and Their Meanings
• Using google.load() to optimize web page load times

• Check box rain drops, another funny little HTML + JavaScript thingy to make your computer cough and you giggle
• Thunberbird has grown up, final version 3 has been released
• Ready, Set, Go!, on Google’s new programming language
• hub: git + hub = github, “hub introduces git to GitHub”
• Ruby Community Coding Standards, a survey from Thoughtbot

It’s been a while, but finally I can present a new bunch of links to you:

• Google Analytics Launches Asynchronous Tracking, it’s about time Analytics don’t slow page load down anymore
• Squad, a web-based collaborative code editor
• Oria, simple Ruby-based key-value store
• Godlike, I would buy a Mac just for this plugin
• Rubyconf in 22 minutes, yet another video from Gregg Pollack
• Introducing FasterScripts.com! Share Your Performance Experiences
• Ruby on Rails laptop sticker, it says it fits on a MacBook but I don’t see any reason why it wouldn’t fit on pretty much any laptop

• PlainView – Add database views to your Rails applications
• Using the Rubygems Bundler for Your App
• Google Closure: How not to write JavaScript
• Programming Contest! And the Challenge is…Measure Rails Momentum

• Firepicker, extends Firebug with a color picker
• goosh.org, the unofficial Google shell
• Riot: Ruby Unit Testing, yet another test framework. I’ll stick to RSpec
• RubyGems.org (Gemcutter) to become the default gem host

• Pair programming isn’t right for all projects
• Introduction to HTML 5
• 37SIGNALS VALUATION TOPS $100 BILLION AFTER BOLD VC INVESTMENT, serious fun
• Microsoft: Google Chrome Frame makes IE less secure, more serious fun
• The Duct Tape Programmer, Uncle Bob’s response to Joel’s post of same title

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.”

• Apple vs. Microsoft – A Website Usability Study
• Introducing Google Chrome Frame
• Jetpack Flight Log » pbcopy in Ubuntu (command line clipboard)
• The Duct Tape Programmer