September 2008
47 posts
Optimization Tips: Ruby on Rails and MySQL -- →
Optimizations for Rails SQL queries.
Sep 30th
TextMate reigns supreme with ‘Ack in Project’ |... →
Adding faster “search in project” functionality to TextMate.
Sep 29th
Sep 29th
CSS Systems for writing maintainable CSS | Natalie... →
Malarkey recommended reading this. No time right now. Soon?
Sep 29th
Sep 29th
Sep 29th
JulioCapote - Highlight link based on current page... →
An easy way to change the style of the current (active) page. Like … making the current page bold in the navigation list.
Sep 28th
Sep 28th
Leveraging Cognitive Bias in Social Design →
Joshua Porter covers how heuristics and cognitive biases affect rational decision making, and how to leverage that in web app design.
Sep 26th
Ruby on Rails Code Quality Checklist - Articles -... →
A brilliant write-up of things to keep in mind when developing Rails apps.
Sep 25th
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Setting up your personal site with Open ID...
My goal was to be able to use my chi.mp Open ID account (charliepark.mp) to log in to my Backpack account. BUT, I didn’t just want to log in through chi.mp directly … I wanted my Backpack account to log in via my personal site (charliepark.org). So on 37signals’ Backpack Open ID login form, rather than entering “charliepark.mp”, I wanted to enter...
Sep 23rd
Sep 23rd
How do I protect stock market gains? →
Unusually helpful advice from the Google Finance message boards: ————— Twice this year I’ve been up 25% only to fall back down to the red. … So, I’ve looked at trailing stop strategies and…
Sep 23rd
Using jQuery for Background Image Animations -... →
Cool write-up of how to use jQuery to animate links and whatnot.
Sep 22nd
(mt) Media Temple : AccountCenter - Server Guide →
How to install gems at Media Temple.
Sep 22nd
WebAIM: Web Accessibility Gone Wild →
A fantastic overview of some common misconceptions and antipatterns for web accessibility.
Sep 22nd
Vixiom Axioms » MT GS RoR A-Z: The complete guide... →
A step-by-step guide on getting Rails working at Media Temple.
Sep 22nd
god - process and task monitoring done right →
A Ruby server monitor.
Sep 22nd
Rail Spikes: Is your Rails application safe? →
You’d hope any dangerous security flaws would be covered by core. Nevertheless … something to check out.
Sep 22nd
CS193H: High Performance Web Sites →
What an incredible-looking class. I think college students often have no idea how good they have it.
Sep 22nd
Sep 21st
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Protonotes: HTML prototyping collaboration tool. →
A really cool Prototype add-on: persistent sticky notes. Maybe add to PearBudget?
Sep 18th
Sep 18th
Anxiety - Lightweight To-do Management →
Leo recommends this. Looks pretty sweet.
Sep 18th
Smarticus — Increasing your testing vocabulary →
A good overview of testing and how language matters. Sapir-Whorf and all that.
Sep 17th
Sep 17th
jQuery and JavaScript Coding: Examples and Best... →
This looks like a great overview of main points of jQuery. Definitely something to come back to.
Sep 16th
Naan Recipe: If You Can Make Pancakes, You Can... →
Easy naan.
Sep 15th
Sep 15th
Sep 15th
Coding Horror: How To Advertise on Your Blog... →
Looks interesting.
Sep 15th
Geek To Live: The art of the doable to-do list →
Gina’s take on having a productive to-do list.
Sep 13th
Obie Fernandez - Do the Hustle →
Obie Fernandez on the feed and care of a Rails startup.
Sep 12th
Lightning Talk: God Monitoring Tool →
PJ Davis at the 2008 Ruby Hoedown, giving a talk on God as a monitoring tool for your servers.
Sep 12th
ConsumerReports.org - Prepaying your mortage: When... →
JD - Thought you’d appreciate this. “When we extended our trials to 15- and 20-year periods of home ownership, the mutual fund had the advantage 100 percent of the time. The average dollar gains from…
Sep 11th
Getting Started with Git and GitHub on Windows -... →
A tutorial for getting Git working on a Windows machine.
Sep 11th
$ cheat git →
A quick writeup with the various commands for Git.
Sep 11th
Unobtrusive jQuery + Rails | Lambda @ Copa →
Potentially useful, in case jQuery yield authenticity token problems in Rails.
Sep 10th
Automatic input focus | Lambda @ Copa →
Using jQuery to focus on the first input. Should implement in PearBudget to focus on the Date field (or would that auto-select the calendar?).
Sep 10th
Announcers: A layer between the controller and... →
I’m not sure if I’ll ever need this, but I suspect that I might: So we came up with the idea of moving all the presentation related logic out of the controller and into helper objects we call…
Sep 7th
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I think this is, pretty much, the best music video ever. It’s like the offspring of the unholy union of The Selecter, The Oompa Loompas, and The 700 Club. Thanks to @frauenfelder for suggesting it. (via Vimeo)
Sep 5th
The Torah In Haiku →
Sep 5th
Sep 5th
Simplify Ajax development with jQuery →
An overview of using jQuery for AJAX development.
Sep 4th
Update: A New & Improved jQuery Script to... →
A jQuery plugin that traverses the CSS file to preload all referenced images, loading them into the cache. Spiffy.
Sep 3rd
Tutorial AJAX interface menu using jQuery/PHP |... →
Sep 3rd
CSS constants with SSI: CSSI! →
Using server-side includes with CSS to enable variables.
Sep 2nd