Posted 3 days back at ZachInglis.com
Maniacal Rage: The Problem with Facebook's "Places":
Here’s the thing about Facebook that really gets under my skin: They are slowly incorporating the features from every other independent web application on the internet. This is not inherently a problem—companies get bigger and they begin to have the resources to widen their feature set—the issue is that Facebook doesn’t do these features any better. They win simply due to how many users they have. It feels like mass-produced mediocrity.
Posted 3 days back at GIANT ROBOTS SMASHING INTO OTHER GIANT ROBOTS - Home
A few of us participated in the Node Knockout this weekend. Our team built a real-time, multiplayer tower defense game named after this very site.
We’re all fairly new to Node, but it was a breeze working with express, a Sinatra like framework, and socket.io, a socket library with several transports for cross-browser support. The client uses canvas, CSS and JavaScript with some fancy graphics. We’re really looking forwarding to working on it more after the voting ends this Friday.
If you can find time between games, vote for it and the other awesome entries. And if you participated this weekend in an attempt to win some awesome gloves let us know what libraries you used.
Posted 3 days back at entp hoth blog - Home
We rolled out a new Support Density graph in Tender reporting. The density graph allow you to see a visual representation of your new discussion traffic in Tender. There is also a Supporter Activity graph that shows the density of outgoing supporter discussions.
Posted 3 days back at Riding Rails - home
Rails 3.0 is a gift from all of us who’ve worked on it to anyone who wants to build something. If you like our gift, please show it by donating to the Rails 3.0 release charity: Charity:Water. We’ve started a campaign to raise $100,000 in the name of Rails 3.0, which will give 5,000 people access to clean water if we make it.
Charity:Water is a fantastic charity (and not just because they run on Rails!). You’d make everyone working on Rails proud by helping us reach our lofty goal.
Donations can be made at http://mycharitywater.org/rails3.
Posted 3 days back at Nick Sieger
I’m pleased to be able to return to Oslo for JavaZone 2010. Whether you’re checking out JRuby for the first time or a veteran JRuby user, I’ll have something for you! And if I don’t, I encourage you to come badger me after the talk is finished.
Additionally, if you’re interested in meeting up for some JRuby discussion next week in Oslo, do drop me a note at the address in the upper right.
Posted 3 days back at Nick Sieger
I am pleased that my Engine Yard webinar on JRuby and deployment is available for general viewing. While the JRuby deployment story is still evolving and maturing, and the 60 minute time frame is too short to cover the issues in depth, I hope you’ll find the content at least gives you some ideas or directions to look.
As always, feel free to contact me with any questions!
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Deploying, Monitoring and Troubleshooting Rails on the JVM with JRuby from Engine Yard on Vimeo.
Posted 3 days back at Ruby Inside
RubyDoc.info is a new, automatically updated Ruby documentation site by Loren Segal and Nick Plante that builds upon their earlier success with rdoc.info (which we posted about in 2009). It's powered by YARD, a tool that puts out great looking Ruby documentation (there'll be more about YARD in a post later this week).
RubyDoc.info automatically generates documentation for all gems on rubygems.org (it updates its index once per day) but it does GitHub-hosted projects too. For RubyDoc.info to automatically update with documentation for your Ruby-related GitHub project, use the "Add Project" link on RubyDoc.info and then add http://rubydoc.info/checkout as one of your post-commit hook URLs in your repository's settings - on each future commit, your latest documentation will be built on RubyDoc.info.
Posted 3 days back at Ruby Inside
RubyDoc.info is a new, automatically updated Ruby documentation site by Loren Segal and Nick Plante that builds upon their earlier success with rdoc.info (which we posted about in 2009). It's powered by YARD, a tool that puts out great looking Ruby documentation (there'll be more about YARD in a post later this week).
RubyDoc.info automatically generates documentation for all gems on rubygems.org (it updates its index once per day) but it does GitHub-hosted projects too. For RubyDoc.info to automatically update with documentation for your Ruby-related GitHub project, use the "Add Project" link on RubyDoc.info and then add http://rubydoc.info/checkout as one of your post-commit hook URLs in your repository's settings - on each future commit, your latest documentation will be built on RubyDoc.info.
Posted 3 days back at InfoQ Personalized Feed for unregistered user - Register to upgrade!
We know that solving DevOps problems improves your business operations and improves the bottom line, but how do you do you explain that to your CEO or CFO? How do you get the executives to buy in and invest in DevOps solutions? By Kurt Milne, Jay Lyman, Rolf Andrew Russell, Jody Mulkey
Posted 3 days back at Ruby Inside
RubyKaigi is Japan's "home" Ruby conference and the organizers have just put 27 videos from the RubyKaigi 2010 conference online. Unfortunately I can't link to them individually as they're embedded on a single page, so head over to rubykaigi.tdiary.net and check them out.
Presentation titles include: Ruby 2.0, Ruby API is Improved Unix API, Rocking The Enterprise With Ruby, Mapping the World with DataMapper, The Necessity and Implementation of Speedy Tests, A Metaprogramming Spell Book, Conflicts and Resolutions in Ruby and Rails, and User Experience for Library Designers.
Two caveats: 1) Be aware that some of the presentations are in Japanese (unsurprisingly) although most of the slides include English and, of course, any Ruby is still readable. There were also several English language speakers including Sarah Mei, Carl Lerche, and Jake Scruggs. 2) The player/hosting for the videos seems to be super slow. Give it time and they'll load.
[jobs] Engine Yard are hiring! Did you know that Engine Yard - one of the biggest and brightest companies in the Ruby world - are hiring? They have Ruby Engineer and Ruby App Support Engineer positions open in San Francisco.
Posted 3 days back at Ruby Inside
RubyKaigi is Japan's "home" Ruby conference and the organizers have just put 27 videos from the RubyKaigi 2010 conference online. Unfortunately I can't link to them individually as they're embedded on a single page, so head over to rubykaigi.tdiary.net and check them out.
Presentation titles include: Ruby 2.0, Ruby API is Improved Unix API, Rocking The Enterprise With Ruby, Mapping the World with DataMapper, The Necessity and Implementation of Speedy Tests, A Metaprogramming Spell Book, Conflicts and Resolutions in Ruby and Rails, and User Experience for Library Designers.
Two caveats: 1) Be aware that some of the presentations are in Japanese (unsurprisingly) although most of the slides include English and, of course, any Ruby is still readable. There were also several English language speakers including Sarah Mei, Carl Lerche, and Jake Scruggs. 2) The player/hosting for the videos seems to be super slow. Give it time and they'll load.
[jobs] Engine Yard are hiring! Did you know that Engine Yard - one of the biggest and brightest companies in the Ruby world - are hiring? They have Ruby Engineer and Ruby App Support Engineer positions open in San Francisco.
Posted 4 days back at InfoQ Personalized Feed for unregistered user - Register to upgrade!
Much of the public discussion about DevOps focuses on Web Operations. This panel is about taking the lessons of DevOps to other types of IT. By Adam Fletcher, Gene Kim, Michael Stahnke, James Turnbull
Posted 4 days back at Railscasts
If you have frequently changing data on the server side, it's helpful to automatically display this to the user as well. Here I show how to accomplish this with polling in jQuery.
Posted 4 days back at zerosum dirt(nap) - Home
Last year we launched a little web service called rdoc.info for hosting public docs for Ruby libraries. It wasn't a completely new idea, but there was nothing else out there at the time that was free and open source and worked on Github post-commit hooks, so I put something quick together in a day and started using it. A bunch of other people started using it too, which was great, and people started contributing patches, which was even more great (thanks in particular to Jeff Rafter and Brian Turnbull). It grew as more people and organizations like our friends at Thoughtbot started hosting their library docs on it.
Today it hosts docs for almost 3000 different Ruby projects. And today we're killing it.
RubyDoc.info is Rdoc.info 2.0
Well, actually, it's more like we're replacing it. With something newer and better, of course. That newer, better thing is RubyDoc.info (source on Github), a project that originally started out as the yardoc.org doc server grew into a full-fledged rdoc.info replacement. Loren Segal (the author of YARD, easily the best Ruby documentation engine ever) and I have been working on merging the projects together for awhile now, and it's finally cooked well enough that we're ready to swap it over.
The new site addresses a number of outstanding issues / feature enhancements that people asked for on the old site, and it's much more tied into the YARD ecosystem. Also, in addition to supporting GitHub post-commit hooks, it also hosts documentation for all published RubyGems. We like it, and we hope you do too.
If You're Already Using Rdoc.info
If your docs are already up on rdoc.info, don't worry. Your old URLs should still work, so no need to update them right away. Your post-commit hooks will still work too. If you have any problems at all, please open a ticket on the project's Github repository and we'll do our best to get you squared away. Thanks!
Better Docs == Better Code
Also, in case you're not already familiar with YARD, now is a great time to learn about it and how it can help you improve documentation for your code. This new site deployment coincides with the release of the brand new YARD 0.6 and Loren's awesome new Yardoc.org site, which has some great guides and other resources to get you up to speed fast.
Posted 4 days back at Ruby Inside
Rails 3.0 has been underway for a good two years, so it’s with immense pleasure that we can declare it’s finally here. We’ve brought the work of more than 1,600 contributors together to make everything better, faster, cleaner, and more beautiful.
David Heinemeier Hansson
DHH rings the bell and announces that Rails 3.0 (final) has been released after two years of determined effort by the Rails core team (and, significantly, Merb team members, since Rails 3.0 is heavily influenced by the Merb merger). Grab it now with gem install rails --version 3.0.0 or, if you're in no rush, Rails 3.0.1 might come along within a week or two.
The Videos
DHH gives a quick roundup of some of Rails 3's new features but like Emma Watson's head PhotoShopped onto yet another naked body, it's nothing you haven't seen before. If you're really fresh to Rails 3.0, though, Gregg does an admirable job of boiling everything down into a digestible format with his (free!) Dive Into Rails 3.0 screencast series:
Ryan Bates has also produced a fistful of his typically succinct but precise RailsCasts videos on a wide array of Rails 3.0 topics. Ryan always focuses on code and practicalities so these are a good place to start if you want to follow along and do some coding yourself:
If you don't like videos, still follow the links, because there are links to the ASCIIcasts regular HTML versions of the Railscasts videos. These are regular blog posts that you can follow at your own pace.
Or some books
Michael Hartl's Rails Tutorial book is the #1 (and only, in my opinion) place to start when it comes to books about learning Rails 3.0. Not only is it available to read for free online, but you can buy a well formatted PDF too. It's an amazing piece of work and, unusually, walks you through building a Rails app from start to finish with testing. If you want to just read one book/site and feel like a Rails 3.0 master by the end of it, pick RailsTutorial.org.
If you speak German, though, check out this "Ruby on Rails 3" book by Michael Voigt and Stefan Tennigkeit. It's one of the first Rails 3.0 specific books to hit the presses.
Or just dive into some code
If you want to just "get started" and check out a working Rails 3.0 application, try Daniel Kehoe's Rails3-Subdomain-Devise app. It's a basic Rails 3.0 app that demonstrates using the Devise authentication system, as well as custom subdomain access. Not just that, but Daniel has put together a walkthrough of how the app works and how it was put together.
