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Avdi Grimm's List: VirtuousCode
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Mar 30, 11
Wise words.
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I think many developers (myself included) are easily seduced by new technology and are willing to burn a lot of time rigging it together just for the joy of tinkering. So nowadays we see a lot of fairly uninteresting web apps with very technically sweet implementations. In designing Pinboard, I tried to steer clear of this temptation by picking very familiar, vanilla tools wherever possible so I would have no excuse for architectural wank.
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Apr 05, 11
Detailed coverage of Ruby features, just the sort of thing I love :-)
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I just created a quick Ruby screencast on creating hashes. I don’t cover all of the possibilities, but I do show 5 ways—including one you should never use.
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Apr 05, 11
A rundown of some of the lesser-known additions to Java 7.
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There are numerous new classes, enums, methods, and interfaces being added to JDK 7 that may not get significant coverage in the blogs and articles on Java 7
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Unfortunately, Rails stands out as a major exception to this simple principle. It creates its own log directory and writes various files into it; some plugins even take it upon themselves to write their own, separate logfiles. This hurts the local development experience: what you see in your terminal isn’t complete, so you have to open a separate window with
tail -f log/*.logto get the information you want. But it hurts the deployment experience even more, because you end up having to tinker around with a bunch of Rails logger configuration options to get your logs from all your web machines to merge into a single stream.
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Apr 05, 11
A different cloud-based logging service
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Apr 05, 11
Configure a Rails 2 or 3 app to log to STDOUT by default
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Sausage is a jQuery UI widget for contextual pagination. It complements long or infinite-scrolling pages by keeping the user informed of her location within the document
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Apr 07, 11
A lovely strange loop of a post: a literate program about literate programming. Thanks to Larry Marburger for pointing it out to me.
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if you can write it in Ruby, Wrong can make a sensible failure message out of it
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Apr 10, 11
This is the first I've heard of this project: it's an LLVM-to-Javascript compiler. Which means you can (for instance) compile C++ to Javascript. I can't decide if this is amazing or just batshit insane. Probably both.
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Overall Emscripten is now in very good shape. It can probably compile most any C/C++ project out there, subject to some limitations (like JS not allowing C-style multithreading).
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Apr 14, 11
A terrific article on statically analyzing Ruby code to infer whether a given method will yield to a block.
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Apr 14, 11
I knew about SPDY. But I didn't realize Google was already using it in production.
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Turns out, while the original work and tests around SPDY were done in the Chromium project, since then, the official Google Chrome client has shipped with built-in SPDY support, and not surprisingly, Google's servers are also SPDY enabled. In other words, if you use Chrome, and you're using Google services, then many of those pages are not arriving to you over HTTP - you are actually running over SPDY!
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Apr 15, 11
Handy list.
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