February 2012
9 posts
Rails Test Prescriptions Blog →
Beanstalk: How I sped up Beanstalk's test suite by... →
beanstalkapp:
Over the years of Beanstalk’s evolution, our test suite has grown a lot. We started on test/unit, then moved to rspec and moved back to test/unit couple years ago. We are far from 100% test coverage and we’re not truly test-driven most of the times, but we’re striving to test more and more.
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Junior Ruby On Rails Developer | BeirutRB Job... →
Monaqasat.com, the leading eTendering cloud solution, is looking for a Junior Ruby on Rails developer for its Beirut, Lebanon office
7 tags
Senior Ruby On Rails Developer | BeirutRB Job... →
Monaqasat.com, the leading eTendering cloud solution, is looking for a Senior Ruby on Rails developer for its Beirut, Lebanon office
Minimal Mac: Microsoft's Biggest Miss →
minimalmac:
One of the benefits of a long car trip with my wife is the opportunity to have really great and insightful conversations with the smartest person I know. Yesterday, on the first leg of our trip, we spent some time discussing Microsoft’s many missed opportunities. The failure to take the iPhone…
Web and mobile consultancy specializing in Ruby on... →
Many developers consider placing libraries outside models directory in a Rails app (under lib/) because they’re not associated to ActiveRecord or because Rails says so.
Brian discusses the +ve/-ve about what goes into the lib/ directory
Between a rock and a hard place – our decision to... →
Daring Fireball: Walter Isaacson's 'Steve Jobs' →
Remove Finder from the Application Switcher in Mac... →
January 2012
3 posts
Scaling GitHub →
Bundler and public applications – Phusion... →
+1
December 2011
4 posts
How to secure an Ubuntu Apache web server |... →
Ruby one-liners →
Learn Code The Hard Way →
Rails gets automatic EXPLAIN logging for slow SQL... →
thechangelog:
In a fresh commit, Rails edge now has the ability to automatically add query plan info to the standard Rails logger:
# Log the query plan for queries taking more than this (works
# with SQLite, MySQL, and PostgreSQL)
config.active_record.auto_explain_threshold_in_seconds = 0.5
November 2011
11 posts
5 tags
Papers Like You’ve Never Seen it Before: Papers2.1 (by Alexander Griekspoor)
8 tags
Papers like you’ve never seen before: Papers 2.1 →
3 tags
Basic Patterns for Everyday Programming →
Ruby and JS basic programming tips
2 tags
Early access beta of "Objects on Rails" Now... →
Just grabbed beta access to Avdi’s newest book
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giant robots smashing into other giant robots: A... →
Database indexes What are database indexes? If you’re building web apps powered by a relational database, you should know. A database index is a data structure in the database which improves the speed of operations (typically row lookups) on a database table, or across tables. Think of it like…
Mark Knichel - Google + infrastructure →
4 tags
The Social Graph is Neither (Pinboard Blog) →
“It’s as if an ad agency built a nationwide chain of pubs and night clubs in the hopes that people would spend all their time there, rigging the place with microphones and cameras to keep abreast of the latest trends (and staffing it, of course, with that Mormon bartender)” couldn’t agree more
End Bonuses for Bankers - NYTimes.com →
Nassim Taleb: Eliminate bonuses for bankers
3 tags
Apple's Supply-Chain Secret? Hoard Lasers -... →
Card Case: The new payments app that foretells a... →
October 2011
15 posts
3 tags
Steve Jobs on Startups
daslee:
“I hate it when people call themselves ‘entrepreneurs’ when what they’re really trying to do is launch a startup and then sell of go public, so they can cash in and move on. They’re unwilling to do the work it takes to build a real company, which is the hardest work in business.”
4 tags
Ruby HTTP clients features →
Nice table summary of Ruby HTTP clients
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Curiosity - @igrigorik →
Ilya Grigorik started a question on twitter asking how would you teach curiosity?
The responses and outcome is quite interesting.
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Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree,...
– Albert Einstein
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Phil Libin, Evernote - Surround Yourself with Smarter People
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Additional HTTP Status Codes →
o Code: 428
o Description: Precondition Required
o Code: 429
o Description: Too Many Requests
o Code: 431
o Description: Request Header Fields Too Large
o Code: 511
o Description: Network Authentication Required
7 tags
Workshop on Android Application Development →
The evolution of driverless pods (aka PRT) →
Nokia as “He Who Must Not Be Named” and the... →
“HTTP Strict Transport Security and You” — Mike... →
2 tags
Generate a secure password using Wolfram|Alpha →
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3 tags
Daring Fireball: Universe Dented, Grass Underfoot →
4 tags
Stephen Wolfram Blog: Steve Jobs: A Few Memories →
25 tags
Seeqnce blog: Interview with Constantine Nicolaou,... →
seeqnce:
As we already announced, on Thursday, October 6 at 7pm, the Tech Ninjas Series #1: Introducing Ruby on Rails event will take place at Seeqnce Community Space, in Hamra, Beirut. What’s cool about this is that one awesome coder will share his knowledge with DOZENS of hackers! That…
September 2011
16 posts
5 tags
API design for humans - (37signals) →
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It roars. And tweets. The 21st Century Beetle
– Volkswagen Beetle
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Don Draper Presents Facebook Timeline
The first Guardian data journalism: May 5, 1821 |... →
4 tags
Strip Whitespace Then Save Document in textmate
– Waging War on Whitespace (using TextMate)
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$1,279-per-hour, 30,000-core cluster built on... →