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”

• How slow are (Ruby) Exceptions?
• Workflow, “Like acts as state machine (aasm), but _way_ better”
• On commit messages
• Git 1.6.6, when was the last time you upgraded?
• Gordon, “An open source Flash™ runtime written in pure JavaScript with SVG”
• Metaprogramming: Ruby vs. Javascript
• Vimcasts, screencasts on the famous text-editor
• Getting Started with Nokogiri, by the creator himself
• Compiling mongodb ’stable’ as a debian lenny package, useful in production

• Metaprogramming in Ruby: It’s All About the Self
• 9 Most Common IE Bugs and How to Fix Them
• Think of emails as views delivered through SMTP
• nested relations in ActiveRecord
• Spy on external HTTP API requests in Rails
• rails_best_practices
• 12 Excellent jQuery Plugins for Enhancing Forms

• pimping out git log
• How We Made GitHub Fast
• First Step on Ruby Metaprogramming
• Trollop, “write less, do more” command line option parser
• Have you ever…faked it?
• RailsOnPG, adds support for PostgreSQL views, functions, triggers and foreign keys to Rails migrations
• Launch: Haystack – a better way for web designers to find clients and for clients to find web designers

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() and constantize() 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.