Jon-Paul Lussier

For some reason, I’m extremely excited about the prospect of government API’s of any sort.

My friend machuga(who’s awesome) takes a swing at hacking his wedding escort cards with Laraval, a new PHP(which I hate) framework for developing web applications. He does a pretty great job of showing you how to set up a simple MVC on a dev environment using a fresh install of Laravel. Show him some love!

A brief(but informative) SO answer on how Google uses your sitemap to help crawl your site, and what sort of things you can learn about the map of your site URL’s by generating your own sitemap. Thanks for the great answer John!

thoughtbot:

How do I learn Ruby on Rails? Vim? Test-Driven Development?

Someone asks us these questions weekly. We think we finally have good answers.

Extracting answers from apprentice.io

apprentice.io is a program designed around 1-to-1 mentor-to-apprentice relationships with a heavy emphasis on…

Really cool and detailed explanation of Battle.net login system, new and old. TL;DR: Battle.net converts passwords to uppercase before hashing them, inexplicably.

Real Time Web with Node.js is now available on CodeSchool and I’m excited to say, it’s quite educational. Learn something new and support CodeSchool!

thoughtbot:

FactoryGirl’s traits are an outstanding way to DRY up your tests and factories by naming groups of attributes, callbacks, and associations in one concise area. Imagine defining factories but without the attributes backed by a specific object. Here’s a basic example of a factory with two traits:

Somewhere in Zurich, 2000 Credit Suisse employees are working in 2500 non-territorial, highly designed and modern workspaces. I envy their progress as a company…

This is ‘Developing Backbone.js Applications’, an (in-progress) book about the Backbone.js framework for structuring JavaScript applications. It’s certainly one of the best resources I’ve found yet(you can get the early O’Reilly edition here). I’m excited to be using new MV* technologies from the JavaScript community, and Backbone is by far one of the most established, active, and documented.

Ruby has had some faux iOS options for a while. MacRuby has been the only real “Ruby” option for some time now, if you don’t count building a Ruby backend to serve some kind of Titanium or PhoneGap’d project. Now the creator of MacRuby took things a step further and has written RubyMotion. I’m really excited about what this project might mean, but really need to see some cannon and real-world examples before there’s any kind of investment. The $150 price tag to adopt offends my sensibilities, but I can’t wait to hear about other people trying it!

Calvin Harris - The Rain (by TheAlex462)

Frog Pocket- Dungeon Hills (by Xyrofen)

A nifty build-along-with-me tutorial for Rails & Ember.js with bootstrap. Not only is it project that you might actually use once it’s done, it seems to introduce Ember pretty well. Make sure you check out the slides as they give you an overview of what you’ll be accomplishing and gives you a pleasant (but short) overview of the whole, snappy-feeling native app browser experience… “thing”

This little gem is probably old news, but it’s new to me and I can’t count the times I wish I had something exactly like this. Send mail straight at this thing and you can view it in the browser(JSON, plaintext, html, and source), download originals to stick in other clients, fairly full featured in terms of making sure mail gets sent, and getting an idea for what it might look like. Includes some nifty extras like growl notification and instant refresh over WebSockets.

GitHub added some project page templates! Many thanks to the designers who put these together. Of course, it pales in comparison to the beautiful fabricationgem.org but it’s a very big step in a better direction. Looking forward to seeing more templates get added!

Helping feels good :D

mullsmeck:

I just spent about an hour and a half trying to track down weird behavior in the application I am developing for a client. For some strange reason a row in the database was created for one of the models every time the application started up in development mode. This is the output from my logs when…

An exclusive world launch from HSN for the VIPRE Mobile Security product. Really, really proud of this moment, feels so good to see your work helping the public. Many thanks to GFI for this opportunity, and HSN for getting our product to the people who need it.

Yehuda Katz doesn’t have to convince me that he’ll nail this thing. Get involved for $100 or more, you won’t regret it.

Not so much.