May 2012
11 posts
Workplace experiments: A month to yourself -... →
Creative minds need scheduled continuous quality time to think
May 31st
Mom This is How Twitter Works →
May 23rd
2 tags
“Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I...”
May 16th
3 notes
“The right way is not always the popular and easy way. Standing for right when...”
May 16th
Importing from Mendeley / Import & Organize /... →
Here’s how to import your papers from mendeley to Papers for Windows
May 15th
That’s Not a Memory Leak, It’s Bloat | Engine Yard... →
An all time favorite article!
May 11th
1 note
A set of top Computer Science blogs →
May 11th
8 tags
Ruby and Ruby on Rails learning resources
I’ve compiled a small list of Ruby learning resources, mainly for beginners. It’ll be good to see the list growing through contributions and self discovery of new resources TryRuby [tryruby.org] (A 15 minutes exercise to try Ruby in your browser) Programming Ruby [tryruby.org] (The Pragmatic Programmer’s Guide) RubyLearning [rubylearning.com] (Ruby getting started notes) ...
May 10th
1 note
May 8th
3 tags
This Inspiring Note Greets Apple's New Hires on... →
Something big. Something that couldn’t happen anywhere else. Welcome to Apple.
May 7th
RubyMotion - Ruby for iOS →
May 4th
April 2012
2 posts
Nadim Kobeissi, Creator of a Secure Chat Program,... →
Apr 18th
3 tags
Life's Too Short to Write Shitty Software →
adzerk: A few Fridays ago, I was at my favorite bar in downtown Raleigh with some friends. We were hanging out and having a casual conversation about startup culture and how it compares to corporate culture. A young guy with a button down shirt and a loosened tie was ordering drinks at the bar and…
Apr 17th
10 notes
March 2012
4 posts
Crowd Interactive Tech Blog :: Y U NO USING POW? →
Mar 30th
Continuous learning for developers // Speaker Deck →
Mar 30th
Linus Torvalds: The King of Geeks (And Dad of 3) |... →
Mar 21st
Square Register →
Just love how simple and great looking the UI for iPad is.
Mar 5th
February 2012
9 posts
Rails Test Prescriptions Blog →
Feb 21st
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. …
Feb 21st
2 notes
7 tags
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
Feb 20th
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
Feb 20th
1 note
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…
Feb 17th
466 notes
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
Feb 17th
Between a rock and a hard place – our decision to... →
Feb 17th
Daring Fireball: Walter Isaacson's 'Steve Jobs' →
Feb 15th
Remove Finder from the Application Switcher in Mac... →
Feb 13th
January 2012
3 posts
Scaling GitHub →
Jan 28th
Jan 24th
692 notes
Bundler and public applications – Phusion... →
+1
Jan 23rd
December 2011
4 posts
How to secure an Ubuntu Apache web server |... →
Dec 27th
Ruby one-liners →
Dec 14th
Learn Code The Hard Way →
Dec 14th
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
Dec 2nd
55 notes
November 2011
11 posts
5 tags
WatchWatch
Papers Like You’ve Never Seen it Before: Papers2.1 (by Alexander Griekspoor)
Nov 30th
18 notes
8 tags
Papers like you’ve never seen before: Papers 2.1 →
Nov 30th
10 notes
3 tags
Basic Patterns for Everyday Programming →
Ruby and JS basic programming tips
Nov 24th
6 notes
2 tags
Early access beta of "Objects on Rails" Now... →
Just grabbed beta access to Avdi’s newest book
Nov 21st
2 notes
6 tags
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…
Nov 17th
58 notes
Mark Knichel - Google + infrastructure →
Nov 15th
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
Nov 9th
1 note
End Bonuses for Bankers - NYTimes.com →
Nassim Taleb: Eliminate bonuses for bankers
Nov 9th
3 tags
Apple's Supply-Chain Secret? Hoard Lasers -... →
Nov 4th
2 notes
Card Case: The new payments app that foretells a... →
Nov 3rd
Nov 1st
3,128 notes
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.”
Oct 31st
77 notes
4 tags
Ruby HTTP clients features →
Nice table summary of Ruby HTTP clients
Oct 27th
31 notes
2 tags
Curiosity - @igrigorik →
Ilya Grigorik started a question on twitter asking how would you teach curiosity? The responses and outcome is quite interesting.
Oct 25th
2 tags
“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree,...”
– Albert Einstein
Oct 24th
2 notes
3 tags
WatchWatch
Phil Libin, Evernote - Surround Yourself with Smarter People
Oct 24th
2 tags
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
Oct 20th