October 2010
45 posts
Hackers (the movie) 15th Anniversary Party on Oct... →
This is just bad-ass. Who wants to go?
September 2010
49 posts
6 tags
rush →
rush is a replacement for the unix shell (bash, zsh, etc) which uses pure Ruby syntax. Grep through files, find and kill processes, copy files - everything you do in the shell, now in Ruby. Previously if you wanted to count the number of classes in your project, you might use a bash command like:
find myproj -name \*.rb | xargs grep '^\s*class' | wc -l
In rush, this...
Face of Opportunity Entry: Ruby Nuby teaches programming to at risk youths http://t.co/bmORBU9
Speedyrails - High Performance VPS and Managed... →
Our CDN service, powered by EdgeCast’s world-class network, offers a superior, cost-effective global content delivery service that gives our clients competitive advantage in the delivery of digital…
PostageApp - The easier way to send email from web... →
The easier way to send email from web apps (I didn’t know there was a *hard* way…)
Rails Rumble 2010 →
I’m gonna be part of a Rumble team; check it out: The Rails Rumble is a kickass 48 hour web application development competition. As a contestant, your team gets one caffeine-fueled weekend to design,…
Custom Stickers, Die Cut Stickers and Laptop Skins... →
Speed up your website with CDN and Rails →
Good introduction on using a CDN in a Rails application.
Pusher - Quickstart guide →
Kick@ss: Pusher. Public beta. Now *that’s* hot.
Tropo.com →
Add Voice, SMS, Twitter, and IM to Your Applications… Tropo is a powerful yet simple API that adds Voice, SMS, Twitter, and IM support to the programming languages you already know.
Hey Twitter: Give us our Tweets →
Welcoming baby Maren, who was born this Tuesday morning in the front seat of our car.less than a minute ago via Twitter for iPhoneseaofclouds seaofclouds
Todd’s family just increased by one a few weeks ago. I found it to be quite a surprising tweet to read that morning, to say the least. I imagine the family may have some stronger feelings about that tweet than I do, too. To them, it’s something...
Never Mind the Bullets →
This is the future of web comics. An amazingly beautiful site in HTML 5. Make sure you are viewing in a supported browser Chrome and Safari (for Mac) and IE8 (Windows) will work.
All I can say is, “Wow.”
A Ruby in the Rough - Use any character as a... →
I intuitively knew this, I think, regarding here docs, but just seeing it again caused me to be taken aback. You just don’t see this used quite that often. Makes it nice in strings that you want to use interpolation and double-quotes without having to escape the double-quotes.
Ruby allows you to define any character you want as a string delimiter simply by prefixing the desired character...
protocool's ack-tmbundle at master - GitHub →
“Ack in Project” TextMate bundle
Should I Retweet? →
The dudes at Smartlogic made this.
Astronomers Begin to Uncover Nearby "Super-Earths" →
A clone of Earth, or even a rough approximation, has proved a difficult thing for scientists to find. The catalogue of planets orbiting other stars grew to more than 400 entries in October, but the goal that drives much of the research into extrasolar planets, or exoplanets, is the discovery of a habitable world, and that goal remains unmet. Some rough approximations, however, are starting to come...
Ever wondered if you should retweet? Well, wonder no more: http://shouldirt.com/ #smartlogic #rails
RT @avallario: In times of trouble, everyone joins a team. No one waves a flag for all human beings.
Resque with Redis To Go →
Resque is a queueing system that is backed by Redis. Common use cases include sending emails and processing data. For more information about Resque itself, visit http://github.com/defunkt/resque….
Shedding Bikes: Programming Culture And Philosophy →
I have just finished a difficult piece of work that removed all need for Python from the default install of Mongrel2. There is now a totally C m2sh command that gets installed by default and requires…
Ajax loading gif generator →
Got spinners?
Good and Bad Procrastination →
The most impressive people I know are all terrible procrastinators. So could it be that procrastination isn’t always bad?
RT @311marc: @pnut “we got money for war but no money to feed the poor”-Tupac
Vote for #rubynuby at the British Airways contest, please?! Check out the video and vote today (and tomorrow): http://bit.ly/cPwRvQ Thanks!
At Ruby DCamp. Hacking in the woods… http://rubydcamp.org
howf*ckedismydatabase.com http://t.co/ijOI7Wp (I particularly dig the nosql section…)
Yum. (@ Havana Central at Union Square) http://4sq.com/2vGlW2
Refactoring for release: Red… Green! Push. Rinse and repeat.
“An affinity housing dashboard is already within the scope of Red Rover. And...”
– Red Rover, Red Rover, send a new roommate over…
“Prominent brands and agencies will gather on Tuesday September 28th at the BB...”
– NYConvergence: Mobile Ad Summit to Take Place in NYC
Interesting project from the LinkedIn Ruby group: HTTY, TTY for HTTP… http://lnkd.in/AWYRYN
My pleasure, @chadfowler—great to meet you, too! Looking forward to working with you.
Ruby on Rails Tutorial: Learn Rails by Example |... →
This is the base curriculum for Ruby Nuby. The author, Hartl, has agreed to let us use it and we’ll have an affiliate link soon for users who wish to buy a copy of the PDF.
Sunspot: Solr-powered search for Ruby objects →
Sweet solr yumminess.
RT @noahsussman: Don’t be dogmatic about test coverage. Test to prove your code will provide a great end-user experience. Anything else …
“Artificial skin made out of electronic, pressure-sensitive material and...”
– DailyTech - Semiconductor Nanowires Used to Develop Artificial Skin
“The Rails Rumble is a kickass 48 hour web application development competition....”
– Rails Rumble 2010
“We were thinking about a series of sites and connecting them like I Can Has...”
– CollegeOnly, a Social Network Just for the University Set - NYTimes.com
NYC Ruby Meetup (on Metaprograming) rocked tonight. #rubynuby rocked last night. I <3 NYC. A truly great community of coders here!