July 2008
25 posts
“Developers love to talk about how software is about people. I know it’s...”
– Developers needed; Hackers need not apply
It's an HTTParty and Everyone Is Invited! →
“I think this is an important lesson for a User Experience Designer to understand...”
– Conversation with Michael B. Johnson of Pixar
“When working on a new version of the app, before I think about the features I...”
– inessential.com: ‘More about deleting features’
Instant Rimshot →
Recency Frequency and Monetization (RFM):... →
aka the art of spamming your users
iPhoneUnitTesting - google-toolbox-for-mac -... →
“Clarity is more valuable than density”
– The Brent Simmons Interview
Pablo Picasso - Bull →
Picasso is refactoring a painting
Setting up a long term fork with Git →
Y Combinator: Startup Ideas We'd Like to Fund →
Finally. Ruby on Rails gets internationalized →
Let’s hope this will improve things. I’m so sick of the state of I18n in rails.
Resurrecting libxml-ruby →
Yay!
“A frequent joke about all these new services coming out is ‘if it’s harder...”
– iPhone Mobile Social Networking Applications
Simple Asynchronous Processing →
and yet another solution for this
Useful Flash Messages in Rails →
User Story Estimation Techniques →
Great advice, especially the bit about luring developers into meetings with sugar
Portable Social Networks, The Building Blocks Of A... →
really good overview
model_stubbing: my favorite fixture killer →
Information radiator screen savers for MacOS X →
I always wanted to show the cruisecontrol status prominently in the office
Improving filesort performance in MySQL →
Good explanation of the sort_buffer_size variable
RAD - Ruby Arduino Development →
Pretty blocks in Rails views →
good overview on block helpers
How Facebook stays afloat adding 250,000 users per... →
Another comparison of HAProxy and Nginx →