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”

• Exploring Rails 3, a free two-hour online conference featuring Yehuda Katz, Gregg Pollack, Jeremy Kemper, and Ryan Tomayko
• Find all online users with Authlogic
• validates :rails_3, :awesome => true
• Bundler 0.9: Heading Toward 1.0
• SafeBuffers and Rails 3.0
• Express, “Sinatra-like JavaScript node.js web development framework — insanely fast, insanely sexy”
• Chartbeat, “gives you real-time analytics so that you know what’s happening when it’s happening”
• Why Arel?
• Unobtrusive JS In Rails 3 With Prototype, I think it’s the first time I see the words “unobtrusive” and “Prototype” in the same sentence
• Shoebox, “helps you manage styles and scripts as first-class citizens in Rails”
• wizardly, “create a functioning wizard for any model in three steps”
• Gemcutter January 2010 Changelog, a few nice feature additions

• 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?

• 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

• 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

I’m reading The C Book at the moment. It’s shockingly fast compared to Ruby but weird in many ways.

• Mount options to improve ext4 file system performance
• Quantity.rb, “Units and Quantities for Ruby”
• Create schema-less, dynamic model attributes
• jsCrypto, “Fast symmetric cryptography in Javascript”
• Web forms design guidelines: an eyetracking study
• Gravatars: why publishing your email’s hash is not a good idea
• Reading Code: In praise of superficial beauty
• Introducing Cramp, “Asynchronous framework for the web”
• jQuery vs MooTools
• Useful Guidelines of CSS Code Structure for HTML 5
• Mocking and Stubbing can be evil
• Ruby SuperStruct: enhanced version of the standard Ruby Struct
• Form Element Borders
• Configliere, “wise, lightweight configuration management for ruby programs”
• Rails Best Practices

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

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• Simply-Buttons v2
• What Beautiful HTML Code Looks Like
• Using BETWEEN for SQL comparisons
• Hashie: The Hash Toolkit
• Spam filtering with Defender

• Riotjs: A JavaScript Unit Testing Framework
• Using partial layouts to DRY out your views
• Re-raise a Ruby exception in a Rails rescue_from statement
• Chroma-Hash, “a sexy, secure visualization of password field input”, demo

• 20 Do’s and Don’ts of Effective Web Design, great article. The site earned itself a new subscriber
• Trap Door, “Reverse Captcha for your Rails app”
• CSS3 . Info, with shiny previews
• Web Standards Compliance (Or The Lack Thereof), it’s very hard to produce valid markup…