YouTube - Authors@Google: Michael Lewis
June 29th, 2009 / No Comments » / by admin
YouTube - Authors@Google: Michael Lewis.
The best part of this is that the youtube adult content warning is about the words of a three year old.
Photos of our visit to Kew Gardens
June 26th, 2009 / No Comments » / by admin
Velocity 09: John Allspaw, “10+ Deploys Per Day: Dev and Ops Cooperation at Flickr”
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Velocity 09: John Allspaw, “10+ Deploys Per Day: Dev and Ops Cooperation at Flickr”.
Broken Social Scene @ Courthouse - New Song - Forced to Love
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YouTube - John Hodgman at Radio & TV Correspondents’ Dinner
June 20th, 2009 / No Comments » / by admin
YouTube - John Hodgman at Radio & TV Correspondents’ Dinner.
YouTube - Andrew Bird - “Cold Blooded Old Times” Smog Cover - Live at Grimey’s
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YouTube - Andrew Bird - “Cold Blooded Old Times” Smog Cover - Live at Grimey’s.
2009-06-15- Today’s Ruby/Rails Reading
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Tender Lovemaking » Blog Archive » Easy Markup Validation
Gem to test for markup validity
Great set of slides from a RubyNation presentation about Testing & Refactoring. No video yet. Anybody know if there will be some?
EdgeCase Ajax File Uploads Made Easy (screencast)
10 minutes. Using JQuery & Rails to upload a file. With a nice show of firefox and firebug debugging. Then shows how to use jaxy file uploads plugin.
How to select an array of values in Rails @ Ramblings on Rails
A cheat: sql = Model.send(:construct_finder_sql, :select => ‘id’, :conditions => [...])
Model.connection.select_values(sql)
Improving the Usability of Your Ruby on Rails Applications - Confreaks: MountainWest RubyConf 2009
30 minutes. Can the user do what they want? 7 principles of Usability.
An attempt at how to manage RFP in an agile way. Cost estimates are unreliable look at Team Composition, Iteration Costs, Experience and Skill match, Compatibility, References
LakTEK – [Rails Tips] ActiveRecord Querying : Be Smart and Vigilant
An example of using group option with active record to reduce queries.
Profiling Ruby With Google’s Perftools - igvita.com
Perftools.rb - a ruby adaptation htat can do CPU profiling and provide visualizations.
Ian Bogost - Cascading Failure
Interesting post on the cascading implication of having your site hacked by the malwariens and Google detecting it.
linkiblog (linki… what?) | How to Build a Popularity Algorithm You can be Proud of
Walkthrough of the logic of creating a popularity algorithm.
A wonderful detailed analysis of thoughtworks’ experience with Ruby.
Designing for Sign Up (video & slides) - Bokardo
Webstock video 45 mins - Signup is hard. Free account sign up is around 8% and pay accounts are around 1% with a big drop off after the first month as well. Interface friction - password strength, check user name availability, refilling fields on error, sending user name in email. Motivation is the primary problem. Several examples of start pages.
Jay Fields’ Thoughts: Developer Testing: Welcome to the Beta Test
23 minute m4v video of a talk about the whys of testing. A bit of Java focus but really language independent stuff.
Ruby Best Practices - “And your Mom, too.” Ruby-talk best practices.
Best Practices for participating in Ruby mailing lists. Basically - be nice, don’t top post, be specific, show your code, do your homework first and search archives and the web.
GitHub Firewall Install - Pricing
Published prices. Given that their github.com hosted Giga plan gives you 60GB for 100 users for $2400 I am pretty surprised that unsupported local costs for the same number of users would be $60,000. The premium for moving off the cloud is a bit too steep and doesn’t reflect any economies of scale but I guess that says more about the premium that the github guys put on their time. I’d prefer to see cheaper licensing per user after a (hefty) install fee and more expensive support particularly since it is really just a web GUI for an open source source control applicaiton but I think the real message here is that they don’t really want you to host your own github but they will let you if you bring bags of cash.
Agile Ajax » Cucumber Rocks - But it’s not a replacement for unit tests » Pathfinder Development
Cucumber is great but it seems to often break TDD. Use Cucumber with unit tests and functional tests for the best results.
Ajaxian » Web Developer Collection: Packaged up Firefox extensions
Firefox plugins for web developers
YouTube - Her Morning Elegance / Oren Lavie
June 14th, 2009 / No Comments » / by admin
YouTube - Grizzly Bear - Two Weeks music video in HD Veckatimest out now
June 12th, 2009 / No Comments » / by admin
YouTube - Grizzly Bear - Two Weeks music video in HD Veckatimest out now.
YouTube - Neil Halstead - Elevenses Music Video
June 10th, 2009 / No Comments » / by admin
