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Code for America: Git Basics

2012-05-17T22:15:11Z

From the guide's first paragraph: A basic overview of Git accompanied by some tips, tricks, and opinions on workflow for using it each day. This in no way attempts to

Thoughtbot: Types of Coupling

2012-05-16T00:59:53Z

A description of ways that your code can introduce coupling into your code. It is listed in order of worst to loosest coupling.

Thoughtbot: Beware Synonymatic Complexity

2012-05-13T21:29:42Z

A blog post explaining one element in how to avoid ambiguos names (specifically classes, but relevant to naming in general).

James Edward Gray: 10 Things You Didn't Know Rails Could do

2012-04-27T23:18:47Z

Slidedeck with 42 tricky (not 10!) things that people often overlook. Based on Rails 3.2.3. Many handy, handy things in here, but also fairly esoteric ones as well. Worth looking

Harvest HQ: Chosen

2012-04-25T02:23:54Z

A JavaScript library for progressively enhancing select boxes. Create standard select boxes and then add the library to get much more friendly user interfaces (think country select boxes). Available in

Mitch Crowe: 10 most underused ActiveRecord relation methods

2012-04-25T02:16:28Z

Rails 3 and 4 oriented. Overlooked methods that can come in handy.

Event History

2012-03-23T22:51:28Z

ELabs: Working with time zones in Ruby on Rails

2012-03-21T01:50:57Z

From the blog post: "Rails provides great tools for working with time zones but there’s still a lot of things that can go wrong. This blog post aims to shed

Tech Curiosity: Advanced File Permissions in Linux

2012-03-07T21:14:18Z

A description of sticky bit, SUID, an SGId and how to set them.

HowToForge: Setting the SUID/SGID bits: Giving a program YOUR permissions when it runs

2012-03-07T21:12:44Z

A description of SUID and SGID and how to set them on a file or directory.

Joe Clark: Hot new iPhone apps by irresponsible developers

2012-03-06T23:22:16Z

Walks through several iOS that have major issues with accessibility. Good examples about what to not miss when doing iOS coding.

Platforma: Barebone models to use with ActionPack in Rails 4.0

2012-03-06T21:13:46Z

Describes ActiveModel::Model, as introduced in Rails 4, and what is good for. Such as contact forms that need validation, etc., but don't need to be stored in the database.

Elabs: Capybara and testing APIs

2012-02-09T22:04:09Z

From the blog post: tl;dr: Use RackTest for testing APIs, use Capybara for testing user behavior. If you need more than that, gives background on why you should use RackTest

Tim Pope: A Note about Git Commit Messages

2012-02-08T03:32:10Z

Spells out good formatting for git commit messages in great detail with justifications. I'm not a huge fan of the suggestion of wrapping to be 80 column terminal sensitive (it

Trevor Turk: Bare Minimum HTML5 template

2012-02-07T03:54:45Z

Links to a gist of the absolute minimum HTML5 template code.

Platforma: My Five Favorite Hidden Features in Rails 3.2

2012-01-26T20:52:56Z

Some tips and tricks specific to the Ruby on Rails 3.2 release. Code samples demonstrating why they are improvements and how to use them. Content_tag_for , div_tag_for, improvements to syntax

Has Many Through: Modularized Association Methods in Rails 3.2

2012-01-21T02:34:14Z

Explains the usefulness of a small new feature in Rails 3.2 that allows for easier overriding of generated association methods. See the example at the end to fully grok it.

GigaOm: Matt Mullenweg (Wordpress.org/Automattic) - Open Web FTW

2012-01-11T22:40:56Z

Talks about the danger of the dominance of some social networks as platforms (Facebook, Google+) and contains this quote: The Internet needs a strong, independent platform for those of us

Ariejan.net: Removing untracked files and directories with git

2012-01-11T21:43:56Z

Talks about git clean.

MacWorld: Four Great Services You Don't Know About

2012-01-11T21:40:57Z

Some handy services for things like renaming files within the Finder and text capitalization.

MacWorld: Griffen Twenty AirPlay Amp

2012-01-09T20:50:45Z

Product description for powered AirPlay amp that should work with unpowered older speakers (i.e. maybe something good you pick up cheap or free).

MacWorld: How to build your own Airplay audio system

2012-01-09T20:46:19Z

Walks through options for building a system that you can push audio output through via Airplay. Something to think about for home/office speaker set ups.

MacWorld: How to use Services in Mac OS X

2012-01-09T20:36:30Z

A good overview to Services and how to make the most of them. Includes setting up keyboard shortcuts, etc.

RubyGlob: Generating API Documentation with rapi_doc

2012-01-06T02:33:01Z

Walks through how to use the rapi_doc gem to create HTML documenation for your RESTful API created with Rails.

RubyGlob: Suppressing IRB Output

2012-01-06T02:08:23Z

This describes the trick to suppres all the objects, etc. being returned in IRB. Handy when you are dealing with large collections.

John Barnette: On Rake

2012-01-06T01:39:38Z

Covers some lesser used rake aspects, such as :file and invoke vs execute.

Jay Fields' Thoughts: Testing Rake Tasks

2012-01-06T01:32:53Z

A quick tip on how to make rake tasks more testable by better encapsulation.

Jason Seifer: Rake Tutorial

2012-01-06T01:30:26Z

A nice primer on Rake. A good starting point for those completely new to Rake.

Ruby Quick Tips: Prevent rdoc and ri installation when installing a gem

2012-01-03T21:11:55Z

Give the breakdown on how to use ~/.gemrc (and the like) to stop documentation installation for gems as the default.

Solutions Grove: Uptime++

2012-01-03T20:19:52Z

Free simple uptime monitoring service (you give it a URL that should return "success", it emails you if it doesn't get that response). Originally developed by Jin Choi and Philip

standing!

2012-01-03T20:17:41Z

This is definitely one of the more unique sit/stand setups i've seen. Very creative!

Welcome

2008-03-31T19:53:27Z

Homepage for the site.

A desk for both sitting and standing

2012-01-02T21:51:06Z

The details of my desk modification to make it able to convert from sitting height to standing height.

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Sociable: Serving Ember.js with Rails 3.1’s asset pipeline

2011-12-29T02:23:00Z

Takes you through creating a "Hello World" Ember.js app on top of a Rails 3.1 vanilla application, including using CoffeScript.

Award-Winning Fjords: CoffeeScript-specific Style Guide

2011-12-29T02:08:21Z

Walks through converting a bit of JavaScript with a jQuery call in it to CoffeeScript and explains the rationale behind the preferred use of paranthesis and the like.

One thing I learned in 1999 - a great way to hire (or be hired)

2011-11-07T23:13:23Z

[Work in Progress] I'm amazed by how many job ads there are right now for Ruby on Rails developers. A lot of these, despite being from companies or organizations that

Reflections on Software: Beating the Talent Crunch with Distributed Teams

2011-12-14T20:42:59Z

A decent overview of how to work with a distributed team (chat room, audio chats, video conferencing, physical get togethers periodically). The one thing I would add a caveat about

test image, ignore please

2011-12-08T00:05:40Z

TLC Projects Homepage

2011-11-22T19:53:39Z

This is a basket for TLC projects. If you are already a member of this basket, remember to login for access. If you should access, but don't already, please register and then request membership.

Dockyards: Mobile Web Apps Still Have Some Major Hurdles

2011-11-10T21:06:10Z

A rundown of the state of mobile web applications versus native apps November 11th, 2011.

Ruby 'index ... out of string' error

2011-09-06T08:49:10Z

What to look for when you encounter this mysterious 'index ... out of string' error.