February 2010
6 posts
bebanjo's delorean at master - GitHub →
go forward and backward in time for tests.
A Better Finder Rename 8: The Batch File Renamer... →
batch renamer gui, looks pretty slick
Simple, Semantic Graphing for Ruby on Rails with... →
a newer google charts ruby wrapper
topfunky's osxscreenshot at master - GitHub →
take a screenshot programmatically. A ruby wrapper to a python library
gist: 296055 - GitHub →
a gemset for Rails3 experimentation
dcparker/temporals @ GitHub →
parse plain-english time ranges
September 2009
9 posts
Exporting data to CSV and Excel in your Rails apps... →
Quicksilver plugins in Objective-C › Vacuous... →
development guide for quicksilver plugins
Binary Minded Software - Remember The Milk for... →
nicely written plugin for RTM, written by an independent developer
Tweet = Twitter + Quicksilver | Archives |... →
very simple script to update twitter from quicksilver
How I use Quicksilver II: Scripts | jwdunn →
links to several examples of quicksilver scripts — see the twitter one linked from here
Things plug-in syntax - Things Wiki →
this desktop app (a todo app) provides support for quicksilver, launchbar, and google quick search box. Source for all three is available.
Single-Loop Knots →
vinsol's Launching-Soon at master - GitHub →
provides a “launching soon” splash page and a way to collect email messages
JPoz - Heroku + Sinatra + Gmail →
lightweight email library in Ruby
August 2009
10 posts
gist: 177368 - GitHub →
no bs guide for updating critical ruby /rails stuff post-leopard-upgrade
laserlemon's vestal_versions at master - GitHub →
stores deltas only in serialized hash in one table
Basic Cloud Server Security - Mosso :: The... →
basic setup (ssh, iptables) for rackspace cloud, but a nice succinct summary for any new server
How to create a proxy class in ruby - Binary Logic →
simple but understandable example of proxy class (add your own method to a collection of things, for example)
In-Field Labels: A Better Way + jQuery Plugin |... →
small (1k), fades labels when you click in
Sangmi Lee Pallickara: Store and Register your EC2... →
bundle and store your ec2 image
Help test our new Amazon EC2 Images | Webficient →
ec2 image with ubuntu, REE, and passenger
EC2 AMI Creation Tips Part 2: Work with Images,... →
customizing a mounted EBS volume, not a running ec2 instance.
Understanding Linux CPU Load - when should you be... →
Good methods for monitoring EC2 instances - Server... →
July 2009
6 posts
Text Rotation with CSS →
cross-browser text rotation technique (including IE) — but only FF 3.5 +
Lessons Learned: Embrace technical debt →
Custom Quicksilver Actions in Ruby » David... →
very simple way to invoke ruby script from quicksilver and pass args
Behold! My Mac mini media center →
Sneaky's - San Francisco's Premier Underground BBQ →
recommended by thrillist. delivers smoked bbq in any quantity
collectd - The system statistics collection daemon →
June 2009
2 posts
HTML email inline styler →
Takes a url or pasted-in HTML (with a css include) and generates in-line-styled html. Useful for creating html emails.
tomaszmazur's trixy_scopes at master - GitHub →
a collection of named scopes for AR; may be nice shortcuts for console interactions.
May 2009
8 posts
Woot: The Community: The Community: Woots: Asus... →
ssd options for asus 900 (see bottom of the page)
Andy Millar » Blog Archive » Linux Load Average... →
plain-English explanation of load averages, with a bit of troubleshooting advice
MySQL :: MySQL 5.0 Reference Manual :: 7.2.1... →
understanding the output of expain
Sam's Blog - Railsconf: HTTP's Best-Kept Secret:... →
http caching — Railsconf talk by Ryan Tomayko
How do I background something in bash over openssh... →
how to really background an bash command so you can log out and the command will still run. NOTE: have to provide full paths. setsid /home/deploy/innodb_convert.rb </dev/null >&/home/deploy/out2.txt
James Smith • loopj.com » Blog Archive » jQuery... →
very nice facebook-style multi-select, can navigate selected items with cursor keys and delete items.
Linux and NetBSD Xen VPS hosting. →
incredibly reasonable vps hosting. only supports centos 5 and debian 5 at the moment
Ruby - Don’t Dump. Debug! | Linux Magazine →
good refresher on command-line ruby debugging
bmizerany's sinatra-dj at master - GitHub →
sinatra + db + captcha — good example sinatra code from blake
April 2009
11 posts
The Best Free Web Icon Sets - WebIconSets.com →
nice summary of a bunch of popular icon sets
Home or away, find wifi everywhere you go →
Webrat: Rails Acceptance Testing Evolved →
presentation on webrat, a few good details
redis - Google Code →
Redis is a key-value database. It is similar to memcached but the dataset is periodically persisted to disk.
Capistrano recipe: update shared assets and... →
a few techniques I haven’t used: get(remote_path) to fetch a remote file. Loads the database.yml for local database password.
jQuery plugin EZPZ Hint - The EZPZ Way →
sets a hint in your form field which disappears when you click into the field. small plugin.
nakajima's jquery-glow at master - GitHub →
glow — rocks in safari
http://slideshow.rubyforge.org/svn/samples/ruby19mi... →
since summary of ruby 1.9 changes