EmphasizedInsanity at /life

So yeah, i’ve been away for December on a vacation i’ve been waiting for in the last 3 years, bag of links was not on top of my schedule obviously, but i’m going back on track. here we go:

• blazing speeds with sinatra and memcached – a good combination for speed and profit.
• selenium and CruiseControl.rb – tests and behavior work well.
• Anti-patterns in the making – javascript declarations in training.
• Backup your static html site with wget – first answer ftw.
• iPhone’s CSS support – iPhone support for CSS selectors and funage.
• Future of RDBMS – Igvita on the future of DBs and how SSD and RAM falls into place.
• High performance – Facebook’s way – how facebook tackled the scaling monster (Hive is awesome fwiw).
• Javascript template libraries benchmarking – a benchmark comparison between common template engines in JS.
• Learn rails by example – free online rubyonrails book, pretty good. not perfect.
• Javascript chart roundup – weee, more charts!
• Generic actions in Rails 3 – There will be A LOT to learn about Rails 3 when it hits the shelf, maybe too much.
• VIM destroys all other rails editors – it urges me to drop textmate, well, at least try it.
• Improved network reachability routines in iPhone development – good tips on how to manage your network connectivity on your iPhone application.
• EC2 recipe for puppet – win.
• Free programming e-books – and lots of them.
• vector drawing in javascript – hell yeah! HTML5 is fun, too bad IE is here.
• Learn HTML5 and CSS with rendera – a cute sinatra application by Brian Hogan that will help you get ready for the future, IE users, begone.
• The code paster from heaven – don’t know how many languages it has, but i think it’s the one that has the most, at least from the ones i know.
• PastryKit – UI library for iphone – from Apple! yay.
• Rails 3 information center – blog posts, tutorials, overviews… i am still not sure it like it.
• grid based designs – a collection of grid based designs.
• AmpleSDK – open source GUI framework – Ample SDK is a standard-based cross-browser JavaScript GUI Framework for building Rich Internet Applications.
• UKI – Simple UI library – Uki is a fast and simple JavaScript user interface toolkit for desktop-like web applications.

Treasures

• alice – rack based HTTP client.
• health_monitor – Monitor individual aspects of your rails application’s health
• Drizzle nginx module – upstream module for nginx, run sql queries directly from nginx!