Ma.gnolia: John Nunemaker's Bookmarks

Visualgui.com » University of Notre Dame Sites

2008-02-05T20:28:44-08:00

Some kind words about our work.

rails-twelve-hour-time-plugin - Google Code

2008-02-04T08:03:25-08:00

Gives a twelve hour option for times in date time selects.

Beanstalk — Version Control with a Human Face

2008-02-04T06:51:19-08:00

Beanstalk is a hosted Subversion system, making it easy to setup, browse, and track Subversion.

Git.tmbundle - Gitorious

2008-02-04T06:46:49-08:00

SwitchPipe - Process Manager and Proxy for Rapid Web App Deployment

2008-02-04T06:32:10-08:00

SwitchPipe is a proof of concept "Web application server" or, more accurately, a Web application process manager and request proxy.

Social Graph API - Google Code

2008-02-04T06:28:49-08:00

"With the Social Graph API, developers can now utilize public connections their users have already created in other web services." Be sure to check out the example applications. Pretty cool stuff.

acts as taggable on steroids

2008-02-04T06:21:13-08:00

This plugin is based on acts_as_taggable by DHH but includes extras such as tests, smarter tag assignment, and tag cloud calculations.

Recruiting the Top 1 Percent - Joel Spolsky - Fog Creek Software - Internship

2008-01-30T15:57:20-08:00

Guest Speaker: Recruiting the Top 1 Percent, Hiring and Interviewing Article - There's a better way to find and hire the very best employees.

The Untold Story: How the iPhone Blew Up the Wireless Industry

2008-01-30T15:34:37-08:00

Great article on the making of the iphone. Talks about costs, problems, and how apple overcame them to shake up the mobile industry.

nginx.conf

2008-01-30T15:21:20-08:00

Installing and Configuring Nginx and Mongrel for Rails

2008-01-30T15:13:06-08:00

Nginx Config Like Whoa — err.the_blog

2008-01-30T15:12:48-08:00

Err the Blog: Ruby and Rails from the front.

#134452 - Pastie

2008-01-30T15:11:57-08:00

A twitter bot that posts direct messages from certain users as public tweets.

UI-patterns.com

2008-01-30T15:10:25-08:00

User Interface Design Pattern Library. UI patterns for web designers. See examples and read rationale, solutions, and implementations for each pattern.

xssterminate - Google Code

2008-01-29T19:49:15-08:00

xss_terminate is a plugin in that makes stripping and sanitizing HTML stupid-simple. Install and forget. And forget about forgetting to h() your output, because you won‘t need to anymore.

Webrat - Agile Web Development

2008-01-29T19:14:56-08:00

Webrat lets you quickly write robust and thorough acceptance tests for a Ruby web application.

Cody Fauser - PayPal Express Payments with ActiveMerchant

2008-01-29T19:09:18-08:00

thoughts to blog: Building CouchDB on OS X

2008-01-29T19:05:29-08:00

“Can you get cp to give a progress bar like wget?”

2008-01-29T18:57:08-08:00

How to make cp work with progress bar.

ever the optimist

2008-01-29T18:45:30-08:00

Nunes Quotes and Other Things

2008-01-29T18:44:45-08:00

A CSS Sticky Footer

2008-01-27T12:30:49-08:00

A footer that always sticks to the bottom of the window using only css.

Living on the Edge (of Rails) #3 - X-Sendfile and many other sexy enhancements - redemption in a blog

2008-01-27T11:50:56-08:00

In edge rails you can still use send_file, just add :x_sendfile => true to the options and rails will do the addition of the headers and such.

Send files faster with X-Sendfile | John Guenin

2008-01-27T11:46:50-08:00

Rails' send_file has a beautiful, simple interface. Unfortunately, it ties up your Rails process with the rather mundane task of reading a file from disk.

How To: Use GMail as your mail server for Rails 2.0!

2008-01-27T11:43:39-08:00

Quick and easy. I did this on an app a while ago and it has been working great.

Welcome to Spreedly!

2008-01-25T20:30:48-08:00

Take one-off or recurring payments easily and securely with fully automated billing. Your users can upgrade and renew at anytime — if you want, Spreedly can even send them a gentle reminder. And if a subscriber ever wants to leave we make that easy too, with powerful refund and store credit options.

Shadowbox.js Media Viewer

2008-01-25T20:14:26-08:00

Shadowbox is a cross-browser, cross-platform, cleanly-coded and fully-documented media viewer application written entirely in JavaScript.

Fighting invalid page exceptions

2008-01-25T20:11:12-08:00

How to get rid of will paginate errors created by malicious users and bots.

Feeds for Free — err.the_blog

2008-01-25T15:07:09-08:00

Anyways, let us be painfully aware that we can get Atom feeds for free. Not as in beer or speech, but as in ‘zero lines of code.’ How? Microformats.

Environment Scripts in merb

2008-01-25T15:02:21-08:00

How to run scripts with the full merb environment.