Jon-Paul Lussier

A decent laundry list for setting up an Ubuntu production server that includes: security, nginx, monogo, memcached, node, ruby+rails, monit, and lograte.

Not the best written, but, not terrible either. Use it as a guide, not as cannon.

Cute little tool that picks a random color and displays the palettes of the most popular shots from Dribbble that contain that color.

Just what it sounds like, a browsable repository of jQuery plugins, for good and for justice!

Sly is a JavaScript library for advanced one-directional scrolling with item based navigation support. And it’s damn well built.

Practicalcloud boostrapping is probably one of the easier ways to provision an EC2 instance for your app. Be sure to check out how EC2 tags and a bucket of scripts on S3 can provision entire clusters!

(via Slant - What are the best programming fonts?)

If you’re anything like me, all these game engine JS libs sound pretty interesting to you, but, you’re not sure what your options are.

Problem solved!

Awesome demo of a radial menu in pure CSS3.

Flat UI color trends, what else is there to say really.

Lots of nice flat UI examples, too.

gmfce:

TraceView by AppNeta provides deep performance monitoring of web applications.

It gives you insight into your web application performance such as this:

and a per request drill-down that shows you the nitty gritty detail of where time is spent in individual requests (full-size):

and…

An awesome little gem that buys you some of the same behavior as a client-side MV* framework. By reworking the render partial helper, including a few JS libs, and adding an extra method to your controllers you can get that “real time” look and feel from your browser while still using Ruby and Rails. Definitely worth the time to check out.

Great little post on estimation, System I and II thought process(ala Kahneman’s “Thinking, Fast and Slow”) and what we can learn about software estimation from studies on human cognition.

This might contain a ton of information you have read elsewhere(or conclusions you had made earlier based on Kahneman’s book), but, it might be one of the most illuminating reads on productivity and estimation you’ve ever seen.

An excellent deck with another set of DevTool tips from Ilya Grigorik. Check out the newest shinies in JS profiling, USB remote device tooling, and customization(new tabs + themes).

Especially note the section on PageSpeed Insights.

These are certainly 3 things I can’t remember hearing anyone advice(save maybe the version hiding). In any case, they’re kind’ve interesting, and, might be worth trying. Have a read just to see if you can learn something new.

A comparison of several JS MV* frameworks, the author takes his experiences with each and rates them 1-5 in 10 categories. Hard to tell which of these frameworks is really the “best” choice, but, great for answering questions like, “Does this framework have an active community?”.

A thoughtful take on web applications designed for Mobile versus the native approach. Plus a short list of easy ways to make your web app rock on mobile devices. Worth a quick read, if only for the inspiration.

Great talk from Rob Pike about Go language and why it’s not bleeding any edges as a programming language, but instead, what real world, real company problems that the language is solving. Kind’ve inspiring in a pragmatic sort of way.

_why updates his site, with a suggestion that he might return to the community. I’m interested to see how this develops, perhaps, you are too! Check HN comments for images of the update.