EmphasizedInsanity at /life

• noSQL Ecosystem – an article that make a little order in the recent ou-ha! around noSQL and the libraries around.
• recurly – recurring payments to your application.
• Creating Javascript custom events – this post form DailyJS explains how easy it is to bind and trigger custom events in jQuery.
• Google’s issue tracker API – i wonder if the times in which we miss the Microsoft dominance over us are near. shakes
• “Using ActionMailer for internal messaging” – simple tutorial that shows a very basic usage of AM.
• Simply buttons v2 – CSS/javascript <button> awesomeness.
• Starting Android development on your Mac – a brief tutorial for all of you infidels.
• Unit testing: the easy way – the guys at the SD ruby group are sharing some insights.
• How beautiful HTML looks like – Chris, you are awesome.
• show_response for a better functional tests debugging – Neeraj with a sweet little tool to display the response in functional tests.
• Using jQuery’s end() when building DOM elements – Another tip from Neeraj, who has a pretty neat blog.
• Why do i need to use sudo when i install gems? – a discussion on Reddit explains why you probably don’t have to.
• Great series of posts on Tokyo Tyrant – yes they are great, even more to come.
• Scaling servers with amazong: CloudFront and Amazon S3 – looks like a series of posts is coming to life on Amazon’s services, i’ll be sure to follow.
• Latency vs. Business – increase scalability, spend less money.
• The basics of Javascript OOP – Just in time.
• Gemcutter’s under-maintenance stack explained – rack + sinatra. nice.
• Ruby Design patterns code samples" – from the book carrying the same title.

Treasures

• rails_best_practices – rails_best_practices is a gem to check quality of rails app files according to ihower’s presentation from Kungfu RailsConf in Shanghai China
• jaml – javascript HAML.
• emile – emile.js is a no-thrills stand-alone CSS animation JavaScript framework, named after Émile Cohl, early animator.
• shoulda-addons – Awesome add-ons to make Shoulda more awesome.
• fitter_happier – A Rails Plugin for adding a simple health check to your application (note: i’d use metal for that).
• Naive Bayes – Simple Naive Bayes classifier
• Rack Streaming proxy – Streaming proxy for Rack, the rainbows to Rack::Proxy’s unicorn