January 2012
1 post
Wat →
A lightning talk by Gary Bernhardt from CodeMash 2012
December 2011
4 posts
“The whole debate about Facebook and MySQL was never really about whether it...”
– Facebook shares some secrets on making MySQL scale
Knyle Style Sheets →
Inspired by TomDoc, KSS attempts to provide a methodology for writing maintainable, documented CSS within a team. Specifically, KSS is a documentation specification and styleguide format. It is not a preprocessor, CSS framework, naming convention, or specificity guideline. This means it works great with ideas like OOCSS, SMACSS, SASS, and LESS.
WatchHeroku, Neo4j and Google Spreadsheet in 10min. Flat. (by Peter Neubauer)
November 2011
7 posts
Slowy app →
Slowy is a tool which simulates custom connection’s conditions and limits the network traffic to a specified destination port. It is created for web developers, like me, who need to test a website with a real-world connection, even on a local server.
http://flatironjs.org/ →
Flatiron, an unobtrusive framework initiative for node.js
No one agrees on frameworks. It’s difficult to get consensus on how much or how little a framework should do. Flatiron’s approach is to package simple to use yet full featured components and let developers subtract or add what they want.
“UILayer provides a JavaScript API on top of WebKit for working with the concept...”
– UILayer
“Latency Monkey induces artificial delays in our RESTful client-server...”
– The Netflix Simian Army
“One of the first systems our engineers built in AWS is called the Chaos Monkey....”
– 5 Lessons We’ve Learned Using AWS
“It is up to the database designer to define the channel names that will be used...”
– PostgreSQL 9.0: NOTIFY (via @tokumin)
“Pipeable Ruby - forget about grep / sed / awk / wc … use pure, readable...”
– grosser/pru
October 2011
6 posts
the understatement: Android Orphans: Visualizing a... →
understatementblog:
I went back and found every Android phone shipped in the United States1 up through the middle of last year. I then tracked down every update that was released for each device - be it a major OS upgrade or a minor support patch - as well as prices and release & discontinuation dates. I compared these dates & versions to the currently shipping version of Android at the...
“Simple JavaScript HTML5 browser storage cache. Persists to memory, webSQL,...”
– Sticky
“Docsplit is a command-line utility and Ruby library for splitting apart...”
– Doc⚡split
ShareJS →
Collaborative editing in any app.
“We have a dev machine at work which runs a variety of Sinatra and Rails projects...”
– Using rbenv to manage rubies
August 2011
2 posts
sstephenson/rbenv - GitHub →
rbenv lets you easily switch between multiple versions of Ruby. It’s simple, unobtrusive, and follows the UNIX tradition of single-purpose tools that do one thing well.
openmirage →
Mirage is an exokernel for constructing secure, high-performance network applications across a variety of cloud computing and mobile platforms. Code can be developed on a normal OS such as Linux or MacOS X, and then compiled into a fully-standalone, specialised microkernel that runs under the Xen hypervisor.
July 2011
5 posts
“VisualSearch.js enhances ordinary search boxes with the ability to autocomplete...”
– DocumentCloud’s VisualSearch.js
“Docsplit is a command-line utility and Ruby library for splitting apart...”
– Doc⚡split
Chosen - makes select boxes better →
Chosen is a JavaScript plugin that makes long, unwieldy select boxes much more user-friendly.
Pry →
Pry is a powerful alternative to the standard IRB shell for Ruby.
smoke.js →
A framework-agnostic styled alert system for javascript.
March 2011
1 post
“However, that celebration has turned into a fetish — placing the act of creating...”
– Have Startups Become a Fetish?
December 2010
3 posts
Lettering.js - GitHub →
Lettering.js, a jQuery plugin for radical Web Typography
“The App Store revolutionized mobile apps,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “We...”
– Apple’s Mac App Store to Open on January 6
November 2010
3 posts
Head JS :: The only script in your HEAD →
The HEAD section is the worst place to load scripts. It’s painfully slow. The more and the bigger the worse it gets. Move the scrips to the bottom of the page and you cannot use HTML5 and CSS3 safely. Enter Head JS. The single best solution to this universal problem.
“The App Store has received the expected “walled garden” critique, but having...”
– Apple’s Next Macintosh OS | Monday Note
MockSMTP.app →
MockSMTP is a native Mac application that embeds its own SMTP server. It also features an e-mail client browser, enabling instant viewing of both raw content and HTML rendering, so you can see how your mail looks when delivered.
Configuration couldn’t be simpler: just run the application and everything’s set up. You don’t even need an internet connection for it to work!
September 2010
3 posts
evercookie - virtually irrevocable persistent... →
evercookie is a javascript API available that produces extremely persistent cookies in a browser. Its goal is to identify a client even after they’ve removed standard cookies, Flash cookies (Local Shared Objects or LSOs), and others.
evercookie accomplishes this by storing the cookie data in several types of storage mechanisms that are available on the local browser. Additionally, if...
Lawnchair →
Sorta like a couch except smaller and outside, also, a client side JSON document store. Perfect for webkit mobile apps that need a lightweight, simple and elegant persistence solution
VexFlow - HTML5 Music Engraving →
VexFlow is an open-source web-based music notation rendering API. It is written completely in JavaScript, and runs right in the browser. VexFlow supports HTML5 Canvas and SVG.
July 2010
10 posts
Dia →
Through the use of technology found on Apple’s Leopard and Snow Leopard operating systems, Dia can create dynamic and robust sandbox environments for applications and for blocks of ruby code.
“Kandypot es un sistema de karma social, implementado en forma de API HTTP para...”
– Kandypot by @mort
Farmville clicker for Mac OS X with MacRuby →
The Basics of the Offline Application Cache →
“UISpec is a Behavior Driven Development framework for the iPhone that provides a...”
– uispec - Project Hosting on Google Code
facebook's three20 at master - GitHub →
Three20 is compiled as a static library, and the easiest way to add it to your project is to use Xcode’s “dependent project” facilities. Here is how
“How did we get here? We believe it’s a combination of creating a high...”
– Quality over Quantity: How We Built iTeleport into a Profitable Business on the App Store - The iTeleport Blog
“There are two reasons why we might want asynchronous testing. The first, and...”
– Vows « Asynchronous BDD for Node
June 2010
1 post
May 2010
7 posts
WatchSuccessful Web App Metrics (by Carsonified)
Comparing E-mail Address Validating Regular... →
I wanted to find a regular expression to validate e-mail addresses, but when I searched I found dozens of slightly different versions of the same expression. Almost all of them had people leaving comments about how it failed to validate or invalidate some rare but completely valid/invalid address syntax
Harmony Website Management →
