Roundsman – Combine Capistrano and Chef solo for easy Ruby deployment
Capistrano makes deployment a snap. Chef takes the pain out of managing server dependencies. Roundsman from Iain Hecker aims to combine the best from both: # config/deploy.rb before...
View Articlerack-worker – Easy worker pattern implementation for Rack
Rack::Worker is a simple project from Heroku’s Chris Continanza for serving up results from backgrounded processes in Rack: class App < Sinatra::Base use Rack::Worker get '/long_ass_request' do...
View ArticleFocused Controller – Aiming for “real OOP” in Rails controllers
While Rails controllers are Ruby classes and have some OOP support as a result, the lack of true encapsulation and awkward before_filter-based sharing of code between actions leave some OOP die hards...
View ArticleClik here to view.
gaskit – Git-backed issue tracker
GitHubber Brandon Keepers blew a Gaskit at the Bacon conference in London today. Gaskit is a proof of concept for using a local git branch as a backend for an application. The front end is powered by...
View ArticleMeteor now MIT licensed
Why MIT? To make Meteor the best possible platform for JavaScript development, it has to be part of a robust ecosystem. That means ubiquity and flexibility: permitting a wide variety of use cases and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
GitHub ❤ ~/ – a guide to dotfiles on GitHub
Sharing dotfiles is one of the best ways we learn from others in the community. Adam Jahnke and I have set up a quick starting point for those looking to join the party. We’ll also be sharing snippets...
View ArticleRails::API – Lightweight Rails stack for headless API apps
“Rails is just an API,” say Alex (featured on Episode 0.7.1) and others. Rails core team member Santiago Pastorino might not endorse the “just” part, but his Rails::API aims to provide a slimmer stack...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Cubism.js – time series plugin for D3
Cubism.js is seriously cool JavaScript time series visualization project from Square with support for horizon charts: … horizon charts reduce vertical space without losing resolution. Larger values are...
View ArticleJSCheck – random property testing tool for JavaScript
Douglas Crockford has released JSCheck, a lightweight JavaScript testing tool. Inspired by the Haskell library QuickCheck, JSCheck will generate random test cases against the specified properties of a...
View ArticleBwoken – iOS UIAutomation testing in CoffeeScript
Testing iOS apps is hard. Apple’s UI Automation lets you write test scripts in JavaScript and simulate user interaction, but who wants to hang out in the Instruments GUI app? Bendyworks has improved on...
View ArticleAkavache – async, persistent key value store for .NET
On my last trip to San Francisco, Paul Betts was gushing about an unnamed cache store for .NET he was working on. Today he announced the release of Akavache on the GitHub blog. Packaged up for Nuget,...
View Articlet – Powerful command line interface for Twitter
As regular listeners know, I love Earthquake, the super awesome text mode Twitter client from jugyo (十行). What Earthquake is to the streaming API, t from Erik Michaels-Ober is to REST API in the...
View Articlemarkx – Convert Markdown, Jade, and more to static HTML with Node.js
Markx from Greg Allen is a command line tool for creating static web sites from Markdown and Jade and includes built in live preview and syntax highlighting. # convert markdown and code blocks to html...
View Articlegitignore-boilerplates – Shell script for cloning GitHub .gitignore templates
GitHub’s .gitignore templates are awesome, but mashing them up into a new project can be a pain. Simon Whitaker has created a handy shell script to make that easier: gibo Python vim >> .gitignore...
View ArticleScreenfull.js – Simple cross browser wrapper for Fullscreen API
The Fullscreen API is fairly new with growing support but the implementation varies across browsers. Screenfull.js is a simple script from Sindre Sorhus to change that, changing:...
View ArticleClik here to view.
StandaloneWebInspector.app – Simple wrapper for WebKit inspector for remote...
Thomas Aylott has created a simple wrapper for WebKit’s Inspector to simplify remote debugging. It works with any WebKit remote debugger, including Chrome for Android. Download or clone from GitHub....
View ArticleClik here to view.
picture-tube – Render images in the terminal
Picture-tube is a fun project from James Halliday to render images in the terminal using ANSI terminal codes. The project can be used as a Node library or from the command line: $ npm install -g...
View ArticleOpa – Event-driven, non-blocking, strongly statically typed web framework...
It seems our industry’s search for a unified theory of web development is resulting in a blurring of the line between client and server. Opa, the latest on our radar even goes so far to introduce...
View ArticleImperator – Command pattern for Ruby apps
Jon Leighton isn’t the only one picking a fight with Rails controllers. Keith Gaddis suggests in The Problem With Controllers that we’ve relegated the command pattern to the depths of our queuing...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Gitspective – Facebook style timeline for your GitHub feed
A great looking use of the GitHub API from Zach Moazeni to visualize your GitHub timeline. Create your own timeline or browse the source on GitHub. The post Gitspective – Facebook style timeline for...
View Article
