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”

• 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

• MongoTips, another blog by John Nunemaker
• Rails 3 Upgrade Handbook, I bought it and it was money well spent. Yours for $12
• HolyGrail, “execute browser-less, console-based, javascript + DOM code right from within your Rails test suite”
• XRefresh, “browser refresh automation for web developers”
• Beware of XHTML, a true eyeopener. You should read it!
• Rails 3 Generators: The Old Faithful
• Building Real-time web apps with Rails3
• Stubbing :new Considered Harmful
• Rails, Slashdotted: no problem
• Avoiding Rails 3 Dependency Hell With RVM
• Smooth Devoperations: Deploying Rails 3 with Moonshine
• Complex Nested Forms with Rails and Unobtrusive jQuery
• EZ-CSS
• RubyGems.org move complete, after several months of hard work
• Use a 503 for your Rails maintenance page

• Monitoring Delayed Job with Bluepill and Capistrano
• Let Them Code Cake!, what a great idea! (No, seriously)
• Git 1.6.6.2, upgrade time!
• Bundler Schmundler
• Aliasing a method vs. defining a new one calling the old one – What’s fastest?, the code and results of the benchmark I did yesterday
• Rake task for deploying to Heroku, neat
• José Valim and Carl Lerche joins Rails core, not surprising at all
• Congratulations, great post by Ryan Bigg demonstrating how you benefit from “doing things right”
• Contacts, “A universal interface to import email contacts from various providers”
• Uniform, style checkboxes, drop down menus, radio buttons, and file upload inputs with jQuery
• Sexp for Rubyists, watch the video – it’s very cool
• How to make an RSS feed in Rails, which is in fact exactly what the article is not about
• Ruby Quicktips, “short, interesting and practical tidbits of the Ruby language and Ruby on Rails framework”

• 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”

• 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

• 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

• 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)