July 2010
20 posts
Appscript →
A Ruby bridge to Applescript. Tight fluent interfaces.
“Ol’ Dirty Bastard couldn’t’ve possibly committed all those...”
– Chris Rock
“When you pigeonhole something, you limit its ability to grow and change.”
– Dave Schools, Widespread Panic
1 tag
“The objects that are most meaningful to you are the ones that fit into the...”
– paraphrased from Objectified
“NoSQL refers to a class of databases 1) are intended to perform at internet...”
– Trying to define NoSQL in layman’s terms. Why did the movement arise at this period in web development? What’s the same about the wide variety of tools?
“AT&T has become a mere toll-taker on the digital highway, an operator of...”
– WIRED
Rise of Dev/Ops
by atmos
Watch“The Social Network”, a Hollywood version of a dramatized book about Facebook by Ben Mezrich, much of it filmed in Cambridge. Gotta say I’m looking forward to it.
Google's UX research on social networks
BioRuby →
Open source bioinformatics library for Ruby
Starbucks Secret Menu →
Gonna have to try that chocolate one.
iCuke: integration testing for the iPhone →
“iCuke now makes it easy to test iPhone applications by providing a Web interface to the iPhone simulator and some predefined steps for common user actions such as typing text, tapping, or swiping.”
Usable in CI environments.
“If you’ve used Capybara or Webrat to test Web applications with Cucumber, you should be right at home using iCuke.”
WatchPhish covering Rage Against the Machine’s “Killing in the Name of”, July 4th, 2010
