January 2008
29 posts
Action Mailer Layouts. →
“A Rails plugin to enable layouts for ActionMailer templates.”
Rail Spikes: Auto-escaping HTML with Rails →
“xss_terminate is a plugin in that makes stripping and sanitizing HTML stupid-simple”
My interview with Steve Yegge on Rhino on Rails →
Instapaper →
Cool idea and execution. Maybe it is possible to not have myriads of browser tabs open all the time?
TextMate command to prevent em spaces →
thank you, thank you, thank you!
Masochistic Connection Proxy with Observers →
Master/Slave Databases with Ruby on Rails →
“Masochism3 is a new plugin for Ruby on Rails that allows you to delegate all writes to a master database and reads to a slave database.”
“The more I watch people struggle with programming, the more I think that...”
– Slash7 with Amy Hoy - Got Math?
Rubular: a Ruby regular expression editor →
ncache →
“a web cache system base on nginx web server. faster and more efficient than squid.”
Twitter Technology Blog: Announcing Starling →
Advancing Advanced Search →
“Advanced search is the ugly child of interface design -always included, but never loved.”
“Optimization is a medal with a reverse. When you make excessive use of...”
– didn’t know that term. (and unbelievably, there is no wikipedia page about it)
assert_efficient_sql - O'Reilly Ruby →
interesting idea
Terminal scripting in 10.5 →
a great way to give remote shells a different background color
On efficiently geo-referencing IPs with MaxMind... →
RubyForge: Starling →
Starling is a light-weight persistent queue server that speaks the MemCache protocol. It was built to drive Twitter’s backend, and is in production across Twitter’s cluster.
In search of the ultimate pagination
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“Let’s face it: the browser is an operating system. It’s time it...”
– alex - CPU Leak
Why I chose git →
Thin - A fast and simple web server →
Thin is a web server that glues together 3 of the best Ruby libraries in web history
Writing Efficient Ruby Code →
I’m not convinced that micro optimizations help in a web app, but always good to know the ruby vm shortcomings
wrapping up 2007 →
Yegge-esque, but a lot of good stuff in it
“In order to keep going, the path of a user through a website must be designed to...”
– wrapping up 2007
Thrudb - faster, cheaper than SimpleDB →
objects
Exclusive: Yahoo! Brickhouse launches BravoNation →
I still think employing game/level designers in a web 2.0 company would be a great idea
Coding Horror: Size Is The Enemy →
“As I mentioned a year ago, I’ve started a cottage industry mining Steve’s insanely great but I-hope-you-have-an-hour-to-kill writing and condensing it into its shorter form points”
Stevey's Blog Rants: Code's Worst Enemy →
just linking to it for completeness. Great, but long, read
Practical Guide to Controlled Experiments on the... →
paper about a/b testing