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Yeah, i know i said bag’o’links will go out of service a few months ago and that i’m going to move it the Nautilus6 website, but overall there were few other things i had to do with Nautilus6 prior to that.. i’ll get to it when i can but it doesn’t mean i can’t re-post links does it?

Links and fun

• 25 points of usability checklist – Some points to follow when your UXing.
• Learning Javascript with object graphs – Javascript is hard, graphs are easy.
• Asynchronous javascript queue – Elad Ossadon (the less-adorable Elad) is showing some JS techniques.
• Rails views in Javascript – an old post yeah, but might be a good baseline for a solution i heard about to the “maintain templates on both client side and server side” problem. sounds weird but i’ll explain everything in a future post.
• W3’s guide to RTL supported web pages – yes, we’re a minority but we need support too :)
• Cross browser CSS guidelines – from smashing.
• Scaling with Hadoop – from sitepoint.
• Callbacks in Rails3 – slideshow.
• Useful CSS3 tools – timesaving.
• Cuking it right – writing maintainable acceptance tests.
• Beginning Erlang for ruby developers – slideshow.

Favorite RailsRumble Apps

Last weekend this year’s “RailsRumble” took place, of course i missed it but i did had a chance to peek in and choose some favs:

• RailsWizard – generate your own Rails template by a simple click/choose interface. i like it so far and anxious to see how far it goes.
• Caviar – charge your clients by results.
• Empower – build a development environment around your app, nice.
• FontStacks – generate CSS that contains awesome fonts (font-face).
• GitWrite – blogging for nerds, looks like a web supported Jekyll.. nice, i like it and waiting for some improvements and additions.

Treasures

• webmock – Library for stubbing HTTP requests and setting expectations on HTTP requests in Ruby
• RailsERD – tool that extracts an ERD schema out of your models.
• Test Driven Javascript – that’s a good book folks, go get it.
• jsKata.timezone – a javascript library that works with timezones and makes it easy to handle for us noobs.
• Cool set of CSS3 buttons – nice.
• Backbone.js – MVC to your JS. wicked.
• 50 free CSS templates – some are really good looking.
• Formalize – CSS framework for forms.
• Updated list of Cheatsheets for developers – web developers that is.
• MVC in Mootools – an MVC framework that uses Mootools.

Last sad note

About 10 days ago we lost a friend. Fares Yussuf Donaldson (a.k.a invalidrecord on IRC) died.
We will miss you buddy.