Double Shot #820
17 Feb 2012 10:58am GMT XCode, GCC, and Homebrew - One of the good things about Mountain Lion: Apple shipping official tools to support homebrew (and you can download them today). capybara-firebug - Run Capybara tests with Firebug enabled under the selenium driver. Youporn.com is now a 100% redis site - Another triumph for the technology of porn. Ruby 1.9.3-p125 is released - Yay for new releases. I Wouldn't Learn Ember in 2012 - Trolling or troll-stomping? You decide. Google Circumvents Safari Privacy...
Double Shot #819
16 Feb 2012 11:40am GMT Isn't it Friday yet? Style Master - $60 commercial tool for WYSIWYG CSS development. Leaflet - Open source JavaScript library for interactive maps. Capistrano task - show deployed revisions & diffs - Not exactly what I needed, but pretty darned close. JotForm.com Suspended - The US government's war on user-generated content continues. I'm wondering how long it'll be before DropBox, Evernote, and everything else gets shut down. RubyMine 4 is Here to Make You Feel the Productivity - New...
Double Shot #818
15 Feb 2012 12:13pm GMT Time to get on with the day. Mixu's Node Book - An introduction to Node.js, with a few advanced topics. Enumeradical - Extensions to enumerable to make working with collections of objects a bit nicer. Rails is Definitely Not for Beginners - And yet many of us were beginners once. Linting the hell out of your Ruby classes with Pelusa - New static analysis tool for ruby code. Viewpoint for Sharepoint Web Services - I'm sure someone needs this ruby wrapper for Sharepoint. I'm glad it's not...
Double Shot #817
14 Feb 2012 11:22am GMT Snow on the ground for the first time this winter. Doesn't look like it'll last long though. Cane: failing your build for code quality problems - A quality checking tool for Ruby 1.9. Octokit - Version 1.0.0 of this Ruby wrapper for the GitHub V3 API is out. Every Little Things Capistrano Does Is Magic - A peek at some of what goes on when you type 'cap deploy.' BusyFlow - Integrate Pivotal Tracker, Dropbox, Google Docs, GitHub, and some other cloud-based bits. Git 1.7.9 Release Notes -...
What's New in Edge Rails #8
13 Feb 2012 10:47am GMT Week of February 5-February 11, 2012 Some goodies for PostgreSQL users this week, as well as other odds and ends. As of d70e0236 Active Record supports PostgreSQL partial indexes. add_index(:accounts, :code, :where => "active") generates CREATE INDEX index_accounts_on_code ON accounts(code) WHERE active. f7b915b5 adds support for PostgreSQL hstore columns. Working with CoffeeScript gets just a tiny bit nicer now that rake notes picks up annotations from .coffee files in dd8c6f05. I'm...