January 2009
a dream for us →
The Appleseed Cast fansite, bootlegs, news, videos, etc. Sweet!
Name-Value Pairs →
by Tim Bray.
Micro Lightweight Unit Testing →
by Joe Armstrong. Super simple and elegant!
Clojure →
an interesting-looking language. May spend some time investigating, especially since they’ve embraced a version of the WSGI/Rack spec.
Public Service Announcement: the "P" in "HTTP"... →
A reality check about specialized HTTP protocols (the repetition is intended).
Signal vs. Noise →
by 37signals. A design and usability blog. I always forget just how good their blog is.
Kick-ass Queuing for Ruby →
using RabbitMQ over amqp at play/type blog.
Morethanseven →
Interesting blog.
Restafari.org →
by Karmi
The Future of memcache-client →
by Mike Perham.
We're All Gonna Die →
100 meters of existence.
Do's and Don'ts with Babies →
Hilarious!
Find me →
Where’s Waldo meets Bourne Identity
So good →
an interesting video of lights… halfway through gets really visually interesting.
Backward and forward compatible protocol evolution... →
by Mauricio Fernández. Love his work, and this is a damn interesting paper.
Apps for America Contest →
My good friend Luigi Montanez is helping direct this competition. Looks really awesome!
When in Doubt, Turn to _why →
by Magnus Holm. Refers to nested hash params from Rack::Request parsing.
Automating Data Visualization with Ruby and... →
on OmniNerd.
has_memcached →
by Ara T Howard. Determines if Memcached is available and if so will tell Rails to use that. If not, it defaults to the current Rails.cache.
Watch
Continuations in C →
Coroutines in C →
Craft the perfect gem with Jeweler →
by Technical Pickles. Much better than Hoe and others, I think. Not a fan of the VERSION.yml file, though.
My Git Workflow →
by Michael Ivey.
Tracking Clicks, Building a Clickmap with PHP and... →
I’m definitely thinking of rewriting this as a Ruby-centric solution (Rails, Merb, or Sinatra)…
jMonthCalendar →
on ByteCyclist
Graph Visualization for Apache log files →
by Oleg Burlaca. Pretty graphs!
Craft the perfect gem with Jeweler →
by Technical Pickles.
You say ‘ad hoc’ as if it were a bad thing. →
on Abstract Heresies.
extprot →
extensible binary protocols for cross-language communication and long-term serialization
Jester →
REST for Javascript from ThoughtBot. Hell yeah, looks interesting.