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

• The Evolution of a Ruby Programmer, very funny
• Gem in a Box, “Really simple rubygem hosting”
• Writing contingent Ruby code with #retryable, take a look at my comment at the bottom, too
• Ripple, “You Got your Riak in my Ruby”
• Alter Table Rails Plugin, very neat – should be part of Rails core
• Getting familiar with Rails 3
• jQuery with Rails 3, why is Prototype even still the default in Rails?
• Easy version management for Rails apps using VersionMaster and Capistrano, nice
• aruba, “Cucumber steps for driving out command line applications”
• The Power and Philosophy of Ruby, slides from talk by Matz
• AbstractQueryFactoryFactories and alias_method_chain: The Ruby Way
• wtfjs, “a collection of those very special irregularities, inconstancies and just plain painfully unintuitive moments for the language of the web”
• Vim Tips for Ruby (and your wrists), pure gold as I’m learning Vim at the moment
• Refraction, “Rack middleware replacement for mod_rewrite”
• Rails Metrics: know what is happening inside your Rails 3 application, there’s a screencast!
• How to Test your JavaScript Code with QUnit
• JavaScript: The World’s Most Misunderstood Programming Language
• Building Real-time web apps with Rails3
• Improved validations in Rails 3
• A Hint of Hubris
• Ketchup, “Tasty jQuery Form Validation”

• 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?

• Babushka, test-driven deployment
• Just In Time, Not Just In Case, words of wisdom
• Essential Rails Extras
• iPhone Style Checkboxes, “Turn your checkboxes into iPhone-style binary switches”
• There is no magic, there is only awesome (Part 4)
• The Ruby Show, a relaunch of the Rails Envy podcast
• The Path to Rails 3: Approaching the upgrade
• New ActionMailer API in Rails 3.0
• The Mysterious Pseudo Class in CSS
• Dirty Associations, “allows you to track changes made to your model’s associations”
• Correct, Beautiful, Fast (In That Order), interesting

• 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)

• ActiveModel: Make Any Ruby Object Feel Like ActiveRecord
• HTTP POST with curl
• Hamster, “Efficient, Immutable, Thread-Safe Collection classes for Ruby”
• WEBrick has an Escape Sequence Injection vulnerability
• tracked_plugins, “script/plugin now keeps track of installation, can list urls/revisions/install-dates and update”
• Rails and Merb Merge: Plugin API
• Free memory on Linux: free -m vs /proc/meminfo
• What Are We?, a very interesting talk by Francis Hwang
• Make IE8 Think It’s IE7
• FireQuery, Firebug extension for jQuery development
• MockSMTP.app, “Smart and simple e-mail testing for new apps and websites on Mac OS X”
• TotalFinder, Finder enhancements for power users

• template_inliner, “Inlines small partials into templates they are rendered from”
• Rails and Merb Merge: Performance
• IxEdit, “a JavaScript-based interaction design tool for the web”
• The Master, The Expert, The Programmer, there’s been a lot of buzz around this lately
• Dabble DB, “helps you create online databases on the web”
• Re, Regular Expression Construction

• 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

• 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

• 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