July 2009
41 posts
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Potential Rails patch
layout :determine_layout
protected
def determine_layout
if %w(new create).include?(action_name)
'narrow'
else
'internal'
end
end
layout should take :if, :only options to control which controller actions.
RubyConf 2009 in San Francisco →
Proposals open until August 21
Superyacht looks like killer whale →
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"RSS to Twitter" Ruby script with SuperFeedr
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Chedder Getter →
Subscription billing.
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WatchWhat’s your favorite planet? Mine’s the sun. It’s like the kind of planets.
“Wow! That’s incredibly honest! You could spend months meticulously...”
– Jon Stewart, reflecting on the Republicans in Congress showing a crazy graph of health care reform.
“People don’t leave jobs they leave managers.”
– From the Twitter internal strategy notes. Never heard this phrased as such but it matches up with what I know about Gallup’s half-a-century-long polling of American workplaces. According to Gallup the single most important factor in your job satisfaction is your relationship with your manager....
Twitter's internal strategy hacked & released →
Feel bad their systems were broken into but now I have to look…
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[Ruby script] EventBrite export to Google Groups →
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WatchJon Lester Livestrong commercial. Chills.
Moneyball for basketball
+/- points while on the floor
improve teammates’ rebounding
SportsML “standard”
specification
example
Potential data sources
Basketball Prospectus (form an agreement)
Stats Inc
Rails test prescriptions →
WatchMake a Twilio app, deploy it on Heroku and win fabulous prizes!
We’ve partnered with our friends over at Twilio to bring you a sweet little developer contest that runs from July 6th to July 13th.
The rules are simple as can be: make a Twilio app in ruby, deploy it to Heroku and submit your entry on or before the 13th.
The winner gets a netbook and $300 in Heroku platform credit!
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The Capital Raising Ladder →
Learning to love forms →
"Twitter brings in big guns from Pivotal Labs" →
This is an article from a venture capital blog from a year ago. I love the title & would love to see Pivotal’s name replaced with thoughtbot in future articles. I’d like to think we’d the Pivotal of the Northeast, or that Pivotal is the thoughtbot of San Francisco… Just takes consistent execution and quiet delivery for a strong network of startups & investors in...
Kent Beck: The Flight of the Startup →
* Taxi * Takeoff * Climb * Cruise
Get your API right →
Ruby best practices: blocks →
Decent overview of block usage.
Rubygems popularity list →
Reminder how popular RSpec is, Shoulda isn’t, REST client & Happy Mapper are, Active Merchant isn’t.
Paypal's Adaptive Payments →
Similar to Amazon’s Flexible Payments Service (FPS).
Expression Engine →
Most designers at An Event Apart, Boston said they use Expression Engine for PHP.
Thor →
“rake and sake needed to be replaced for scripts, not as a replacement for make”
I had just been contemplating an include CLI replacement for optparse a couple of weeks ago. Should really try out Thor.
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CSS color names →
chocolate, crimson, coral, cornsilk, honeydew, indigo, khaki, lawngreen, linen, mintcream, papayawhip, seagreen, seashell, snow, thistle, wheat, whitesmoke.
Agile Web Development with Rails test suite →
Baseball salary v. performance →
Steep blue lines are good, steep red lines are bad. Move the date slider.
attachment-fu vs. paperclip S3 death match →
Looks like Paperclip won. Congrats, Jon.
Tumblr API →
Instructables: make your own tie-fighter keyboard →