August 2008
28 posts
A Fresh Look at 'Technical Debt' →
Some good links in there
Disable updated_at and created_at in migrations →
would be nice to have a save_without_updating_timestamps for these things
Non-blocking JavaScript Downloads →
Capacity Planning, Architecture, Scaling, Response... →
some very useful commands to get system stats
Everyday GIT With 20 Commands Or So →
What Games Can Learn from Social Software →
this is the good stuff
“We’re living in the “anyone can play guitar” era of software entrepreneurship.”
– Sci-Fi Hi-Fi: Weblog
How Hard Could It Be?: How I Learned to Love... →
“But for software developers, it’s moronic. Your software isn’t being...”
– How To Launch Software
Visualization Strategies: Text & Documents →
nice overview
Amazon’s Elastic Block Store explained →
This is really useful and solves a lot of the current EC2 and s3 limitations
“Good designers are inhibited by a myopic view of their current capability,...”
– Beethoven’s Heiligenstadt Testament: A Study in Capability vs. Capacity
The Framework Age →
“These days we’re designing frameworks for user interaction rather than static artefacts.”
WhatLanguage: Ruby Library To Detect The Language... →
Merging Active Record models →
:jasonrudolph => :blog » Testing Anti-Patterns →
Good and clear writeup
The Art Of Braid: Creating A Visual Identity For... →
With lots of great screenshots
Leapfroglog - The making of a travel-time map of... →
Business Requirements are Bullshit →
Great and as always lengthy rant from Steve Yegge, but well worth the read. This really resonates with me.
Why Apple doesn’t do “Concept Products” →
Big Contrarian → Divide. →
Great article about engineers and designers working together
Why Jargon Feeds on Lazy Minds →
“I think planning a project is ultimately a little like throwing a donut at the...”
– Task Times, The Planning Fallacy, and a Magical 20%
Patterns of Web Architecture →
The Artful Gamer · Narratives and Interactivity... →
Stories built around core mechanics →
Craken →
“In a nutshell it manages and installs rake-centric cron jobs.”
Bounces-handler →
“Bounces-handler package is a simple set of scripts to automatically process email bounces and ISP‘s feedback loops emails, maintain your mailing blacklists and a Rails plugin to use those blacklists in your RoR applications.”