May
30
- Jim Lindley: Notes Git-Svn Workflow -
- Free Group Greeting Cards, Birthday eCards, Office Greetings from GroupCard -
- Hotwicks | Uncrate - Hotwicks ($9) definitely aren't your typical candles. With scents like beer, campfire, grass (as in lawn), new car, pancake, pigskin, stripper, popcorn, and the rather scrumptious sounding urinal cake, your place can smell exactly how you want it to. Just
May
22
- Lacoste Asks: How Will We Play Tennis In 2083? - How will we play tennis in 2083? From the looks of things, Lacoste believes we will be in a virtual room with collapsible rackets and cool looking robotic suits. Although, I have to admit that the video after the break portrays it as more like a futuristi
- Ruby is a Playground, PHP is a Factory - Ruby, to me, is like a big open playground, while languages like PHP remind me of big industrial factories. I don't think that any of us would argue that industrial factories are more efficient for most things, but they also suck the creativity and life o
- #189238 - Pastie - +ActionController::Base.append_view_path(File.join(directory, 'lib', 'views'))
- #189094 - Pastie - # ACC I'm setting use_full_path to false here and rewrite_template_path_for_active_scaffold has been # modified to return an absolute path
May
21
- Lockdown - Lockdown is a authentication/authorization system for RubyOnRails (ver 2.x). While Merb functionality is in place, it is not complete. There will be a release solely focused on getting the Merb functionality up to par with Rails.
May
19
- New York Events and Activities | GoLark - GoLark is a place for finding and sharing fun things to do in your town. Vote up larks that sound fun & submit your own!
May
18
- skwpspace ? Useful git commands and quirks - Things I?ve learned from my first git experiences. First of all, git is inconsistent as hell. Every command has its own quirks and syntax, so I?m attempting to catalog some of them here. We?ve been using git svn at Planypus as a way to maintain loca
- Signalfire - Stay in contact with your teams from
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participate in many groups, either public or private. - BitNami :: HowTo: Windows + RubyStack + Aptana RadRails + Ruby Debug - After following these steps you should have an Aptana RadRails intstalltion, which RubyStack?s Ruby, Rails, ImageMagick and other libraries, and provides visual debugging.
- Do we really need Controller and View tests? - Don?t overload controllers with responsibilities. Put logic in your models instead. This approach is usually called ?skinny controller / fad model? (Jamis Buck wrote about it here and here, Courtenay of caboo.se also wrote an article).
- eigenclass - rcov: code coverage for Ruby - rcov is a code coverage tool for Ruby. It is commonly used for viewing overall test coverage of target code. It features:
* fast execution: 20-300 times faster than previous tools
* multiple analysis modes: standard, bogo-profile, "intentional te - Flying Machine Studios » Blog Archive » Announcing Palmist - # Make it easy to work on one request at a time
# Highlight duplicate queries
# Show the time each query takes and total db time
# Link to EXPLAIN
# List general MySQL optimization tips - Rubular: a Ruby regular expression editor - a Ruby regular expression editor
- Balls: Rotopault Kinetic Sculpture Is Mezmerizing - About 30 seconds after I clicked play on this video of Brad Litwin's latest kinetic sculpture, Rotopault, I said "cool" and flicked my mouse to close the window. And then I just kept watching. It does the same thing over and over again: Launches a ball as
- Cubescape - Your own digital landscape - Ever wanted to create your own isometric pixel picture, but didn't know what the word isometric meant? Well, now you can fulfil your wildest dreams with Cubescape!
- News: AirFox Live Helicopter Streams Traffic, Utter Chaos - The Chicago Fox affiliate WFLD has embraced a touch of Justin.tv with their new AirFox Live helicopter feed. Viewers can now visit the AirFox website and view Google Maps GPS tracking of the chopper, along with a real-time video feed sharing whatever it s
- SystemTap - SystemTap provides free software (GPL) infrastructure to simplify the gathering of information about the running Linux system. This assists diagnosis of a performance or functional problem. SystemTap eliminates the need for the developer to go through the
- Who Needs an API? ? err.the_blog - Pledgie being the venerable service it is, I decided one night it couldn?t possibly be that hard to integrate it with GitHub. It?s a pretty standard Rails site with some simple forms to make the magic happen (eg. setup a donation page).
They don?t
- delinkydink - Google Code - A firefox extension that watches your del.icio.us "links for you" page and alerts you with a message when a new one exists. You can then click on the link and it will open it in the browser for you. To send your current page to a del.icio.us user in you
- Getting Paid the Open Source Way ? GitHub - This afternoon we?re rolling out the ability for every public project on GitHub to, dare I say, make money. You?re now one click away from adding a Pledgie badge to any of your projects. Pledgie is a great service offering a simple and effective way t
- SimpleViewer Download - # Intelligent image pre-loading.
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# Lightweight (17k).
# Customizable interface - Set text color, frame color and width, navigation position.
# Resizable interface - Interface scales to fit browser window.
# Cross platform - Wi - doctype - doctype - Google Code - Doctype is a Google-sponsored open encyclopedia and reference library for developers of web applications. By web developers, for web developers.
- Totlol - Video for Toddlers, Infants, Preschoolers and Parents - Totlol is a brand new community-moderated video website designed to be enjoyed by those between the ages of 6 months and 6 years.
Totlol is in early testing phases and this means that at most times, most things, will work as most would expect. But someti
- Spiceworks - Free Network Monitoring Software for Network Management - You want a network you can manage, not a network that manages you! You wish you could have it… without spending a fortune. Your wish is granted.
Introducing the free Spiceworks IT Desktop and Community. Used by 325,000 IT pros in 194 countries. Spicewo
- Firebug and Logging - Having a fancy JavaScript debugger is great, but sometimes the fastest way to find bugs is just to dump as much information to the console as you can. Firebug gives you a set of powerful logging functions that you can call from your own web pages.
May
15
- Q… Life on the Net - Ruby on Rails and BackgroundRB - multiple progress bars with ActiveScaffold - Blognow - I want to use ActiveScaffold, and allow me to upload files to the server, but these files are documents and then I want to be able to click "import" on each entry and with AJAX show EACH document individually being processed in the background with the per
May
14
- the { buckblogs :here }: Skinny Controller, Fat Model - When first getting started with Rails, it is tempting to shove lots of logic in the view. I?ll admit that I was guilty of writing more than one template like the following during my Rails novitiate:
- Your Tech Weblog: Want a rotary iPhone dialer? You'll get one. - It's called RetroPhone, and company founders Bill Heyman and Damon Allison showed it to me today ahead of the app's public unveiling at MinneBar tomorrow (I have a story about CodeMorphic and MinneBar in the Pioneer Press).
- Community Engine | A Social Networking Plugin for Ruby on Rails - CommunityEngine is a free, open-source social network plugin for Ruby on Rails applications. Drop it into your new or existing application, and you?ll instantly have all the features of a basic community site.
- NNDB Mapper: Tracking the entire world - The NNDB Mapper allows you to explore NNDB visually by graphing the connections between people. Over 32,000 individuals are listed in our network.
- lunchn.com - If you and your friends enjoy going out to lunch regularly, lunchn is a valuable tool to help answer that common question you face each time you get together. What's for lunch? lunchn provides an easy to use site for you and your lunch friends to quickly
- Bruce Lee?s Top 7 Fundamentals for Getting Your Life in Shape - Adding more and more just creates more stress and anxiety. Removing clutter and activities, tasks and thoughts that are not so important frees up time and energy for you to do more of what you really want to do. And as the clutter in your outer world decr
- Hackszine.com: Cross browser session data with Javascript - By storing data in the window.name property, you can store data between page loads and across domains without ever sending a cookie to a server. Thomas Frank created the sessvars.js library which makes use of this browser quirk, allowing you to store up t