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”

• 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

• Ruby script for setting up a Rails Edge (3.0.pre) application
• Powerful Color Manipulation with Sass
• Introducing RCapture, “a Ruby library that allows placing hooks on methods using a convenient interface”
• Ruby Net::HTTP cheat sheet, “A collection of Ruby Net::HTTP examples”
• Rspec 2 and Rails 3
• Find By Hash, “Extension to ActiveRecord to allow you to do findy-thingies with hashes”
• fixwidth, “Bookmarklet, wrapping in a 600px centered div. Improves readability on 100% width pages”
• Improved Commit Diffs on GitHub. Absolutely awesome
• How to keep your Vim Plugins up to date
• NXdom, “Short domain name search”
• TipTip, tooltip jQuery plugin

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

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

It’s been real quiet in the Rails community the last couple of days, but now I have a few links ready for you:

• A sneaky session gotcha in rails 2.3
• Amp, Mercurial in Ruby, but it’s ambitions goes further than that. Check it out
• zen-coding, “Set of plugins for HTML and CSS hi-speed coding”
• Introduction to MongoDB – Part I, I never took the time to check out MongoDB. I’m impressed
• Scaling Rails – On The Edge – Part 3, awesome screencast from Envy Labs

• 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