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In praise of “boring” technology | Spotify Labs

jnunemaker — 2013-04-18T12:51:28+00:00

In Praise Of Small Code - Development - Architecture & Design - Informationweek

jnunemaker — 2012-06-01T21:58:32+00:00

stripe/einhorn

jnunemaker — 2012-05-30T16:51:09+00:00

the lanuage-independent shared socket manager

Benchmark Your Bundle

jnunemaker — 2012-05-11T19:02:58+00:00

Interesting piece of code that shows the time it takes bundler to require each of your dependencies.

Issue 2.7: "Unobtrusive Ruby" in Practice - Practicing Ruby

jnunemaker — 2012-04-13T04:19:14+00:00

Some good thoughts on unobtrusive ruby.

jbarnette/watchable

jnunemaker — 2012-03-19T16:11:40+00:00

A simple event/notification mixin for Ruby.

ohler55/oj

jnunemaker — 2012-03-16T18:28:49+00:00

Optimized JSON. Supposedly 2x faster than yajl. Impressive. Love the name too.

bitmonkey - Introducing Metriks

jnunemaker — 2012-03-09T17:33:28+00:00

New metrics library from Eric Lindvall. Allows you to measure anything, store it in memory, and flush it to external services. Very cool.

Large Ruby File Downloads Done Right! - Dan Watsons Coding Zen

jnunemaker — 2012-01-02T02:41:22+00:00

Fast, easy, realtime metrics using Redis bitmaps

jnunemaker — 2012-01-01T22:11:54+00:00

Interesting use of bit sets to determine daily active users.

Writing Ruby Scripts That Respect Pipelines

jnunemaker — 2012-01-01T21:11:28+00:00

Pusher notifications with EventMachine

jnunemaker — 2011-08-31T01:46:36+00:00

Demeter: It’s not just a good idea. It’s the law. | Virtuous Code

jnunemaker — 2011-07-08T14:15:19+00:00

Long but good post on cleaning up your code.

MailCatcher

jnunemaker — 2011-07-02T05:23:22+00:00

Just tried this out tonight. Super handy for doing basic testing of HTML email.

grosser/url_store

jnunemaker — 2011-05-03T02:34:15+00:00

Data securely stored in urls.

robertsosinski/retryable

jnunemaker — 2011-05-03T02:18:13+00:00

Easy to use DSL to retry code if an exception is raised.

josh/rack-mount

jnunemaker — 2011-04-22T16:44:02+00:00

Stackable dynamic tree based Rack router

Rodreegez/powder - GitHub

jnunemaker — 2011-04-14T21:06:04+00:00

Syntactic suger for http://pow.cx/

mperham/girl_friday

jnunemaker — 2011-04-12T16:22:52+00:00

girl_friday is a Ruby library for performing asynchronous tasks. Often times you don't want to block a web response by performing some task, like sending an email, so you can just use this gem to perform it in the background. It works with any Ruby application, including Rails 3 applications.

juliocesar/rack-pagespeed

jnunemaker — 2011-03-24T16:35:23+00:00

Cool idea. Uses rack and ruby to do several of the things that google's mod_pagespeed does.

The Greatest Developer Fallacy Or The Wisest Words You’ll Ever Hear?

jnunemaker — 2011-03-22T00:58:18+00:00

Great post on how to get better or at least how not to get worse.

Passing Blocks in Ruby Without &block

jnunemaker — 2011-02-10T17:10:43+00:00

Some tips on passing blocks around in Ruby without a performance hit.

ddollar/foreman

jnunemaker — 2011-02-07T19:24:48+00:00

Manage Procfile-based applications. Allows exporting to json and upstart.

weppos/whois

jnunemaker — 2011-02-07T19:18:01+00:00

An intelligent pure Ruby WHOIS client and parser

samg/diffy

jnunemaker — 2011-02-03T16:03:42+00:00

provides a convenient way to generate a diff from two strings or files

Riot - Ruby Testing Framework

jnunemaker — 2011-01-28T16:33:32+00:00

"Riot is a fast, expressive, and contextual ruby unit testing framework." My first thought was why, this is stupid, but after reading the docs, color me intrigued. Definitely give it a look.

libphonenumber-ruby

jnunemaker — 2011-01-23T15:33:50+00:00

Ruby wrapper for google's phone number normalization stuff.

envato/safe_shell

jnunemaker — 2011-01-22T13:44:04+00:00

Safely execute shell commands and get their output.

soniciq/iq-color

jnunemaker — 2011-01-22T13:35:52+00:00

Allows converting between rgba and hex css colors.

Write Code Like You Just Learned How to Program

jnunemaker — 2010-12-31T05:32:15+00:00

It's extremely difficult to be simultaneously concerned with the end-user experience of whatever it is that you're building and the architecture of the program that delivers that experience. Maybe impossible.

augustl/net-http-cheat-sheet

jnunemaker — 2010-12-29T22:24:47+00:00

A collection of Ruby Net::HTTP examples.

geemus/excon

jnunemaker — 2010-12-29T22:23:32+00:00

EXtended http(s) CONnections. Built on top of ruby's tcp lib.

Zombie.js

jnunemaker — 2010-12-29T22:19:17+00:00

Insanely fast, headless full-stack testing using Node.js

Gash

jnunemaker — 2010-12-29T22:17:57+00:00

Gash lets you access a Git-repo as a Hash.

Hash Tricks

jnunemaker — 2010-12-27T19:46:28+00:00

The use of a hash as a net/http response cache is a neat idea.

TwP/turn

jnunemaker — 2010-12-22T02:43:13+00:00

"A new look and feel for Test::Unit output -- Test::Unit Reporter (New)." Pretty slick!

MacRuby: The Definitive Guide

jnunemaker — 2010-12-17T05:37:57+00:00

MacRuby book online and updated as it is being written. Neat.

Head JS :: The only script in your HEAD

jnunemaker — 2010-12-17T05:31:22+00:00

Tiny little script that does a lot. Seems interesting.

uber-glory-tmbundle

jnunemaker — 2010-12-17T05:29:54+00:00

Wonderful bundle for textmate that strips whitespace and doesn't have weird behaviors.

Capistrano cowboy deploys

jnunemaker — 2010-12-06T15:27:28+00:00

Deploy like a cowboy!

SSL with Rails

jnunemaker — 2010-12-01T19:49:17+00:00

Great post on how to integrate ssl with rails in the age of firesheep.

Shopify's path to Rails 3

jnunemaker — 2010-11-17T16:42:34+00:00

Great read on updating a huge rails app to rails 3. Loved the difference in aesthetics of the routing files.

sdsykes's fastimage

jnunemaker — 2010-11-16T19:46:52+00:00

Interesting project that downloads the minimal amount needed to get info about an image on the net somewhere.

Phusion Passenger 3.0.0 final released

jnunemaker — 2010-10-18T14:17:02+00:00

Passenger 3 is released. Hot.

Ajax Upload

jnunemaker — 2010-10-17T21:17:09+00:00

File upload script that provides allows you to show progress bar in latest FF, Safari and Chrome. Does not use flash.

Auto-detect timezones, time zone offsets and daylight saving in javascript

jnunemaker — 2010-10-16T02:19:45+00:00

Library for working with timezones in JavaScript.

How to use Rails 3.0's new notification system to inject custom log events

jnunemaker — 2010-10-15T17:38:24+00:00

Interesting gist on how to instrument anything using Rails 3's notifications.

moowahaha's despamilator

jnunemaker — 2010-10-15T17:15:56+00:00

"spam detection in text, made specifically for web forms" Very interesting idea, though it means that you have to get better at spam protection yourself instead of passing that off to a company who does spam as its only service.

gem development with bundler

jnunemaker — 2010-10-14T14:45:55+00:00

Good intro on building a gem, specifically by using bundler.

bblimke's webmock

jnunemaker — 2010-10-12T02:53:20+00:00

"Library for stubbing HTTP requests and setting expectations on HTTP requests in Ruby."

RSpec-2.0.0 is released!

jnunemaker — 2010-10-10T22:52:11+00:00

newtwitter performance analysis

jnunemaker — 2010-09-29T18:19:11+00:00

Interesting read on #newtwitter's performance by Steve Souders.

Documentation by YARD 0.5.8

jnunemaker — 2010-09-28T18:23:48+00:00

"Dragonfly is a Rack framework for on-the-fly image handling in Ruby." Seems interesting. I definitely feel that on the fly image resizing is the way to go, but I'm not convinced dragonfly is the answer.

Making Posterous faster with Varnish

jnunemaker — 2010-09-24T17:22:35+00:00

How posterous is using varnish to speed things up. Timely as I'll be looking into varnish soon for Harmony.

Bundler for gem development

jnunemaker — 2010-09-24T17:21:07+00:00

How to share gemspec and bundler dependencies.

masuidrive's pr_geohash

jnunemaker — 2010-09-06T03:51:17+00:00

"GeoHash encode/decode library for pure Ruby." Had not heard of geohash but it seems cool.

Cached Commons

jnunemaker — 2010-09-02T17:43:35+00:00

"Cached Commons is a collection of user-contributed javascript libraries that have been cached, optimized, and hosted on Github’s fast CDN."

Anemone - Ruby Web-Spider Framework

jnunemaker — 2010-09-02T15:34:34+00:00

"Anemone is a Ruby library that makes it quick and painless to write programs that spider a website. It provides a simple DSL for performing actions on every page of a site, skipping certain URLs, and calculating the shortest path to a given page on a site." This sounds really cool.

Ops Middleware

jnunemaker — 2010-09-02T03:13:19+00:00

"A collection of useful middleware for exposing information about deployed Rack applications." Cool idea.

Skinny daemons

jnunemaker — 2010-08-30T04:05:18+00:00

How to create skinny daemons (aka tiny, self-contained web apps).

Cinch IRC Bot Framework

jnunemaker — 2010-08-25T03:37:39+00:00

"Cinch is an IRC Bot Building Framework for quickly creating IRC bots in Ruby with minimal effort. It provides a simple interface based on plugins and rules. It's as easy as creating a plugin, defining a rule, and watching your profits flourish." Looks really nice.

Github File Finder

jnunemaker — 2010-08-25T03:30:30+00:00

Really cool project. Allows you to browse github projects all in the browser. No need to clone. Slick.

topfunky's sinatra-geoip

jnunemaker — 2010-08-17T13:28:22+00:00

"Simple IP to lat/long API application using the MaxMind GeoLite database."

Smoothie Charts

jnunemaker — 2010-08-12T17:09:44+00:00

"Smoothie Charts is a really small charting library designed for live streaming data. I built it to reduce the headaches I was getting from watching charts jerkily updating every second." Cool idea. Wish I had a reason to play with this.

bayes_motel – Bayesian classification for Ruby

jnunemaker — 2010-08-06T00:50:29+00:00

Multi-variate Bayesian classification engine with a nice API and simple persistence.

Detecting Duplicate Images with Phashion

jnunemaker — 2010-08-06T00:45:15+00:00

Ruby wrapper that uses an algorithm to detect duplicate media such as images. Pretty darn cool.

colszowka's rvm-completion

jnunemaker — 2010-08-04T22:40:08+00:00

Shell completion for rvm ruby versions and gemsets. Handy.

Happy Git Commits

jnunemaker — 2010-08-04T04:07:41+00:00

Brandon posts on how they are using happy git commits at Collective Idea. Love it.

Quick and Easy Logging with LogBuddy

jnunemaker — 2010-07-23T21:33:29+00:00

How am I just now discovering this. Sweet stuff.

Stashboard: The open source status dashboard

jnunemaker — 2010-07-20T20:22:57+00:00

Open source app that allows you to create a service dashboard like amazon, twitter, etc. Deploys to google app engine.