Ruby, Rails, Rails Plugin, CSS

Ruby

• The state of the Lambda in Ruby 1.9

Rails

• RESTful admin Part 3 – the interesting stuff is towards the end to the post. Part 1 and Part 2 of the RESTful admin serious is also a good read.
• PeepCode – RSpec Usr Stories – You can now write plain-text stories that fit into the XP style of development.
• Is your Rails application XSS safe?
• spec_converter released – It converts Test::Unit tests to test/spec style. Check it out!

Rails Plugin

• AttributeFu – makes multi-model forms so easy you’ll be telling all of your friends about it.
• assert_efficient_sql – the assertion intercepts and copies out your MySQL SELECT statements, then calls EXPLAIN on each one, and inspects the results for common problems.

CSS

• 6 Keys to understanding modern CSS-Based layouts

SEO

• Six AdSense optimization tips for forums

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Ruby

• Hash#tomod – extend your class to except a hash of values in the constructor and then access the values as if they are read accessors on the object. Very enlightening post, I’m sure ActiveRecord::Base implements something.

Rails

• Managing a high performance rails application without tearing your hair out (presentation)
• composedof – Format your data using the Rails composed_of Value Object

OS X (Leopard)

• Exploring DTrace on Leopard

CSS

• What CSS did we learn in 2007

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Ruby

• Ruby’s method_added object life cycle hooks
• Reading Gem Specifications
• nil – The nil keyword compared, prodded and poked…
• Naming conventions – what you need to know

Rails

• Rails route globbing – it works by grabbing everything past a certain point in a url and storing the elements in an object that behaves like an Array.
• Rails 2.0 – Concatenate your stylesheets and javascript
• Ferret – Hack for partial matches
• Collapsing Migrations

CSS

• Clear your Floats the right way
• How to clear floats without structural markup

Tools

• XRAY - a bookmarklet you can use to see the box model for any element on any web page. (supports IE6, Safari, Firefox, Camino, etc.)

HTML

• Absolutely gorgeous DHTML demos -  worth having a look

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Rails plugins, CSS, SEO

Rails Plugins

• browserized_styles – plugin to help with browser compatibility.

CSS

• Iconize text links with CSS
• Creating Sexy stylesheets
• Conditional Statements
• Never hack your CSS files again
• htmlPlayground - very nice interactive html api lookup

SEO

• A visual tour through the basics of social media marketing

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Ruby

• Defining Class Methods

Rails

• Amazon S3, Ruby and Rails slides

Rails Plugins

• acts-as-subscribeable – add email subscriptions to various types of models like blog posts,
  comments, forum threads and more and wanted to have a single model
  handle all of it.

JavaScript

• Seven JavaScript Techniques you should be using today
• Keeping my JavaScript files organized

CSS

• 25 Rounded corner techniques with CSS

Safari

• Safari Web developer tools – Actually, Safari provides advanced debugging tools for web developers. By default, it turns off. Run the command explained in the post to enable the tools.

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Ruby

• Time::is – s useful for freezing time at a certain point and executing a block of code.
• Enumerable#sum – Sum the elements of the array.
• Structural Duplication – Taking DRY to the next level

Rails

• Caching makes your brain explode
• The secret to Memcached
• Visualize your Rails model associations
• Setting up multiple asset hosts in rails
• Synching your Amazon S3 asset host using Capistrano
• Security, Security, why the heck – Cheatsheet
• Star Rating System – Using Ajax and CSS
• Mocking and Stubbing in Rails

Rails Plugins

• Email Veracity Plugin – in addition to checking the format, the email domain is checked for MX records.

JavaScript

• prototypers – common mistakes and how to avoid them
• JavaScript Method Overloading – the ability to run different code depending on the number of arguments passed into the same function name.

HTML

• HTML5 Media Support – video and audio tags and scriptability

CSS

• Hip to be square – Are you baffled to find square brackets in other peoples CSS code? If so, you might find this of interest.
• CSS for Programmers – and anyone else who appreciates clean, approachable CSS
• Essential CSS Code – Some pointers on what you should start with in a ready made CSS file that contains some code to make the actual coding of the layout easier.
• CSS Png image fix for IE
• Create an image pre-loader with CSS only
• Fancy form design using CSS

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Ruby, Rails, TextMate, JavaScript, CSS, Web Usability, Mac OS X

Ruby

• String#constantize = tries to find a declared constant with the name specified in the string. It raises a NameError when the name is not in CamelCase or is not initialized.
• How to build a drawing application using shoes, OS X and ruby

Rails

• RSS in Rails 2.0 how to
• Writing custom validators
• Rails fixtures – tips and tricks
• Partial flash messages in Rails
• Rake task to remove css selectors not in use (needs Dust-Me Selectors firefox add-on)

TextMate

• Tasks (ToDo) bundle
• Minimize parentheses in TextMate

JavaScript

• Prototype 1.6.0, script.aculo.us 1.8.0 and Pragprog book released in three way whammy

CSS

• How to design a website – A fully comprehensive step by step tutorial, from design to HTML & CSS.
• CSS Image Replacement, The how to
• CSS rounded corners generator

Web Usability

• clickdensity – analyse the user experience and identify usability and information architecture issues

Mac OS X

• Installing Freeimage/ImageScience on OS X 10.5 (Leopard)

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Ruby

• String#classify – Create a class name from a table name like Rails does for table names to models
• RDDB – RESTful ruby document-oriented database

JRuby

• An introduction to JRuby

Rails

• How to upgrade your RESTful routes to Rails 2.0
• Sending mail with Rails

Rails Plugins

• auto_complete – add auto complete to a input field
• restful_open_id_authentication – provides both OpenID based authentication AND regular restful auth against the local databasej

RSpec

• New RSpec callbacks – before_action & after_action

JavaScript

• Prototype & Scriptaculous – tips #1
• Extend DOM elements with custom methods in Prototype
• Prototype-based context menu solution
• Detect idle state with custom events – the idea is to capture the moment when user has been idle for certain period of time.
• PopBox – an image magnification javascript solution for dynamically moving and resizing images on your web page.

CSS

• Understanding CSS floating
• CSS color generator using images

SEO

• The Website Health Check tool – aims to provide a simple and intuitive interface to seeing if your site has any major SEO issues.

Subversion

• Pretty SVN commit emails

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Ruby

• String#pluralize – Returns the plural form of the word in the string.
• String#cemelize – converts strings to Upper or Lower CamelCase string.
• Hash#asset_valid_keys – gives you the ability to verify that each of the keys in the Hash are expected.
• Renum – a ruby enum gem
• Advanced Ruby Tips & Tricks – You want to include some small class which has dependencies the rest of
  your library does not have, and whose use is only optional, but you
  don’t want the end user to have to require the files manually.
• IRB – Using IRB to find methods on objects (grep_methods)
• Presentations by the San Diego Ruby users group Podcast
• Use ruby and atompub to post to WordPress

Rails

• Preparing for Rails 2.0
• Validatable 1.6.6 released – replace custom validation assertions with the newly introduced validate_only instance
• Active Record – A few tips & tricks working with callbacks (after_create)
• Pagecaching highly personalized web pages in rails
• Theme your Rails application
• Unobtrusive Autocompletion

Rails Plugin

• response_visualizer – open the response body in the default browser allowing easy visual inspection of the page content or pass :html symbol to open content in default text editor.
• calendar_maker – Calendar helper plugin for rails
• auto_migrations – making your migrations kick-ass

JavaScript & CSS

• Faster Page Loads – minimize your javascript and css files
• Brilliant list of tips & techniques for better CSS, totally awesome

TextMate

• “Open in Textmate” in Leopard – I need to upgrade

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CSS, JavaScript, Rails, Ruby, Rails Plugins, TextMate

CSS

• CSS Layout – Working with divs, floating elements, positioning, layering.

JavaScript

• Accelerated DOM Scriptiong with Ajax
• JavaScript code in a CSS file
• Shorthand tips and tricks
• Extending the limits – exploring prototype by example
• $ – Now with more magic!
• Validation Libraries
• JSValidate
• TinyMCE
• Really easy field validation (works with prototype & scriptaculous)

Rails

• Production maintenance and backups

Ruby

• Array#to_sentence

Rails Plugins

• Full text searching using Ferret
• User authentication with acts_as_authenticated tutorial

TextMate

• Setup Tutorial
• Basics Tutorial

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