May 2008
igvita.com →
Apparently another winning blog I haven’t been reading. Fail on my part.
snax →
Evan Weaver’s blog. Must subscribe!
The "AJAX Head" Design Pattern →
over at MetaSkills.net. Very thorough, can definitely glean some valuable information from this.
Moving Past BlueCloth →
Cool libraries, funny article. May just have to switch from Textile to Markdown. Meh.
RailsConf 2008 - Friday Evening Summary →
by Drew Blas. Good stuff. Congrats to James Edward Gray II, a part of Highgroove Studios, but also to Yehuda Katz et al.
What Would You Miss If You Had To Stop Using Ruby... →
A really interesting article.
Announcing Twoorl: an open source ErlyWeb-based... →
Erlang! Woo! :)
I Am the Black Wizards by Emperor i-am-the-black-wizards-by-emperor.mp3
Also epic black-metal.
(via Grabb.it)
Lovely Allen by Holy Fuck lovely-allen-by-holy-fuck.mp3
Pretty epic happy-core or something like that.
(via Grabb.it)
Lovely Allen by Holy Fuck lovely-allen-by-holy-fuck.mp3
Pretty epic happy-core or something like that.
(via Grabb.it)
What's all this fuss about Erlang? →
by Joe Armstrong. I’m reading his book now (just getting into the concurrency bits) and it’s very, very good. Highly recommend it.
A Runner's Primer →
over at kuro5hin.org. Really good notes.
Twitter's business model →
HAH! Awesome.
“var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();
xhr.open(“POST”,...”
– Damien Katz in #couchdb
WatchUltimate proof that cell phones are pure evil on LiveLeak.com.
TweetWheel →
“Find out which of your Twitter friends know each other.” Damn, mine is pretty awesome.
DeVotchKa – A Mad and Faithful Telling →
I’ve always loved this band. Great music!
Version Control Recommended Practices →
by Bram Cohen. Good stuff. RE: #1, I think, ideally, branches are created for every feature, but in practice it is too much. For major features, branches are good. Think of it as a checkpoint from “one idea” splitting off to a “similar but not quite the same idea” such as implementing OpenID into a blog, etc.
Ensuring only one instance of a script is running →
Damn easy and concise! DATA.flock(File::LOCK_EX)
HTTP debugging →
Highly useful.
endless_pageless →
May want to port this to work with Merb, would be pretty cool.
Programming Language Synchronicity: Dynamically... →
by Ola Bini. As always, good stuff.
Using Thin Instead Of Mongrel →
over at Softies on Rails. Nice and concise introduction for those unfamiliar. Good comparison against Mongrel usage.
“We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with...”
– Tom Waits Interviews Tom Waits on NPR
Developing with OpenID →
Going to implement into my new blog. I really like OpenID.
nginx →
as introduced by the High Scalability blog. Some useful links.
Our take on presenting code →
from Dave Thomas. Same applies.
Presenting Code →
from Jim Weirich. I’m sure I’ve logged this one before, but recorded for posterity and reference.
Syntax Highlighting in Keynote →
by Josh Knowles. Useful.
Dark Deployment →
“One issue when you have existing user base is how to roll out new features with the minimal impact on servers and user experience.” Cool approach, never thought to do such a thing.
Create an empty file of certain size →
From the Ruby-lang mail list. Good information.
Articles tagged with Git at Djief’s Blog →
Some good stuff.
Git Push: Just The Tip →
from ReinH, good stuff.
I can never remember creating and deleting remote branches. Here’s how:
git push origin master:refs/heads/remote_branch_name
git push :remote_branch_name
No nonsense GIT, part 1: git-remote-branch →
by Carl Mercier. A commandline tool for making working with remote branches a breeze. Nice.
Git Management →
Looks like a good post… need to take the time to read through it though. (About to post a few articles about Git for later reference. All look useful, though.)
An EventMachine Tutorial →
“Battle not with monsters lest ye become a monster and if you gaze into the abyss...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
Designing a Data Structure →
Saved to read in a bit.
GitCasts →
from the author of the Git Internals Peepcode book. Cool stuff!
WatchJapanese Version of The Office!
WatchPenn and Teller Explain Flag Burning as only they can. Nice.
Persevere →
“an open source set of tools for persistence and distributed computing using intuitive standards-based JSON interfaces of HTTP REST, JSON-RPC, JSONPath, and HTTP Channels.”