Caffeine Driven Development

Running a website costs money which is why I’ve added some slots for Google AdSense ads on this blog and in its feed, namely at the bottom of every blog post, near the top of the sidebar on every page, and at the bottom of each feed item. They’re fairly small and colored similarly to the rest of the blog to make them as discrete as possible. Thanks for your understanding!

• Tilt, “Generic interface to multiple Ruby template engines”
• Frank, “Frank lets you build static sites using your favorite libs, painlessly”
• Rails 3: Let ActiveRecord Manage Your Translations
• Testing Facebook
• Jasmine for JavaScript Testing: It’s Screw.Unit++
• Put your mailer where the action is!, no, by “action” he does not necessarily mean controller action
• Ambitious Query Indexer, “Pain-free indexing to speed up your Rails app”
• Rapid prototyping with HAML, SASS and Ruby
• BlueGreenDeployment, clever
• Getting Real about NoSQL and the SQL-Isn’t-Scalable Lie
• validates_timeliness, “Date and time validation plugin for Rails 2.x and allows custom date/time formats”
• Breakneck, simple gem for serving static files on your development machine
• Performance Tuning for Phusion Passenger
• A quick RVM rundown
• 47 Amazing CSS3 Animation Demos
• SEOChecker, “check your website if it is seo”
• Jasmine, “DOM-less simple JavaScript testing framework” from Pivotal Labs
• The Ruby Standard Wiki, online version of the Ruby ISO standard draft
• #gemsday, “Share your favorite new RubyGems weekly”
• Rubex, “A simple copy cat of Rubular” – the real version has supposedly been acting up lately
• Write Fewer Regular Expressions, yay
• lambda { foo }.should run_in(1.second), useful RSpec matcher from Ryan Bigg

• 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”

• 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”

• Optimizing HTML
• Rails + MongoDB resources
• url_store, “Data securely stored in urls”
• Simple Mustache JSON Serialization
• Rails and Merb Merge: Rails Core
• A Review on the Rails 3 BugMash
• Multiple Domain Page Caching
• Active Record Query Interface 3.0, a must-read!
• fusebox: A safer way to monkey-patch JavaScript?
• AutoSprite, “An easy, automated CSS image sprite creator”
• Notes from the field upgrading to Rails 3

• 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

Do you think there’s enough links?

• NetRecorder, “Record network responses for easy stubbing of external calls”
• MailStyle, converts your HTML emails to use inline CSS instead of an external stylesheet
• Rackamole, “a rack application that traps user’s interactions with your web site”
• Faster, better, cheaper! TDD wins in a simple experiment
• NoSql Databases – Landscape, an overview of all the alternatives to SQL-based databases out there
• Reincarnation, making a Ruby class inherit from itself
• Cromwell, “allows you to easily protect your scripts from being killed”
• Rubinius 1.0.0-RC2 Released
• The Maximal Usage Doctrine for Open Source
• SCSS, CSS-style syntax for Sass (branch of the Sass project)
• Steve Krug on the least you can do about usability, a recorded presentation
• Cappuccino Web Framework, makes it easy to build desktop-caliber applications that run in a web browser
• Bonus: An SD Ruby episode on the above
• Admin Noob, “System Administration for Noobs”
• Waging War on Whitespace (using TextMate), I wish this could work in Gedit

• What I Like About vim, looks like I’ll have to give it a try
• NoSQL Misconceptions
• origins of a company name
• Autotest Growl Fail/Pass Smilies, I’m using them, or at least some very similar
• JavaScript and email addresses, this is new to me