Service-oriented Songkick James Coglan writing at the Songkick blog re: the migration of their monolithic Rails app into modularized components and a service-oriented architecture. Interesting case study, and definitely worth the 10 minutes. (tagged: service-oriented architecture Rails Songkick James Coglan ) Colson Whitehead’s Rules for Writing Colson Whitehead, writing at NYTimes.com: Most people say, “Show, […]
Rails went off the rails “does Netflix run on Clojure?” a Compass convert “Search Term Haiku” is a series wherein I examine this site’s log files and construct one or more haiku poems from search terms and phrases that led visitors to the site. Where possible, I attempt to keep the search phrases intact. However, […]
Read Wired’s piece on the 37signals guys last night and then saw it again this morning via DF. Haven’t looked around too much to see what others are saying but the DF emphasis seems to be on “ginned-up conflict” vs. doubled revenue in ’07. Coming away from the article last night, I find myself with […]
Mephisto “The best blogging system ever” (Ruby-on-Rails blogging/CMS app; no plans to switch F_D to it at this time…) (tags: blog Rails Ruby mephisto research)
Tracks Ruby on Rails-based GTD webapp… (tags: freeware GTD Ruby Rails opensource) Learn Ruby on Rails: the Ultimate Beginner’s Tutorial via Server Side Essentials (tags: dev Ruby Rails tutorial todo)
Rails Framework Documentation Ruby on Rails framework documentation … the nitty grits and naughty bits. (tags: api framework Rails Ruby reference) ))) unfoundsound + foundsound ))) (tags: mp3 dj music)
Recommended font resources for web designers A little light on content/resources but overall a not-too-shabby round-up of font resources for web designers. That said: this is NOT a discussion of deploying fonts in the actual page content (think: for your graphics). (tags: fonts) Mr. Neighborly’s Humble Little Ruby Book via LifeHacker: PDF download for a […]
HappyCodr (indirectly via HiveLogic) a Ruby on Rails Showcase (tags: Ruby Rails web) Moving Through Matter with Buckaroo Banzai via /.: an essay on the physics behind (within?) the film Buckaroo Bonzai… (tags: film geek scifi science essay)
Using Ruby on Rails for Web Development on Mac OS X (tags: dev framework Mac OSX Rails Ruby tutorial webdev todo) WinterTrails.org (tags: winter snowshoe exercise) sitemaps.org (tags: Google Yahoo search web xml)
Yahoo! UI Library: Grids CSS Yahoo!’s CSS-based grid system for flexible, componentized layouts… (tags: Yahoo webdesign webdev reference essay framework CSS) VoodooPad online documentation (tags: VoodooPad reference) Locomotive (tags: OSX Ruby Rails dev freeware software todo)