October 2009
44 posts
update rubygems output message
This is nice. I recently saw something similar I liked with the heroku gem, where it forced me to upgrade to the latest version when I tried to use it, and outputted the gem update command.
[~] sudo update_rubygems
Installing RubyGems 1.3.5
RubyGems 1.3.5 installed
=== 1.3.5 / 2009-07-21
Bug fixes:
* Fix use of prerelease gems.
* Gem.bin_path no longer escapes path with spaces. Bug #25935 and...
Google Groups is dead →
Refactoring: Ruby edition →
Just bought it.
snip →
(via @joshuaclayton)
browser tools
Firebug
Live HTTP Headers
The Real-Time Web (and Other Buzzwords)
He honed his computing repertoire while studying the universe’s fundamental...
– no:sql
pickling →
Python object serialization and byte streaming. Does this exist for Ruby?
I want to be a platform →
“it is infinitely harder for a platform to spawn value added applications than it is for an application to evolve into being a platform.”
Full text search on Heroku using Postgres →
Gibbon →
Gibbon “apes Cucumber’s take on Given/When/Then Templates” for RSpec.
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jQuery Sparklines →
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Hosted Mongo →
By Fred Wilson. Union Square Ventures has funded 10gen, the maker of MongoDB. Common Thread seems to be the company making MongoHQ.
The Ruby 1.9.x Web Servers Booklet
The Ruby 1.9.x Web Servers Booklet
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Sprockets →
Javascript files concatenated in production into one file. Used with gzip, this seems like the “right” approach. Minification seems unnecessary.
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nine-year old scores amazing goal. (via bcardarella)
Facebook API info
Users.getInfo
Storable data
Understanding User Data and Privacy
I don’t feel like speaking anymore. I just want to go out there and play....
– Gilbert Arenas
Queue-Backed
Nice series by Adam Wiggins:
Building a Queue-Backed Feed Reader, Part 1
Building a Queue-Backed Feed Reader, Part 2
Background Jobs with RabbitMQ and Minion
remove the messenger and take the message
– RZA, when asked how he can reconcile the dogmas of Eastern religions, Christianity, Islam, Five Percent, numerology, comic books, kung fu, chess. “Everything is teaching us all the same path. It’s just that one religion was good for these people because of their living conditions.”
Let me tell ya something. Nowadays, everybody’s gotta go to shrinks, and...
– Tony Soprano
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Full-text search with MongoDB →
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GNU Screen →
For remote pair programming.
The New Media Workout Plan →
Video: Edward Tufte on iPhone interface design →
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UNIX man page sections
1 Commands available to users
2 Unix and C system calls
3 C library routines for C programs
4 Special file names
5 File formats and conventions for files used by Unix
6 Games
7 Word processing packages
8 System administration commands and procedures
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Unicorn DESIGN →
philosophies on UNIX, I/O, sockets, syscalls, etc., when called from Ruby
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books by Richard Stevens →
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if Larry Bird had ever played against the Celtics, I would have wandered the...
– Bill Simmons, discussing Brett Favre playing as a Viking against the Packers on Monday night
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Official "Shotgun!" rules →