Hoptoad and Javascript, Sitting in a Tree, S-E-N-D-I-N-G - GIANT ROBOTS SMASHING INTO OTHER GIANT ROBOTS

We didn’t want to leave front-end developers in the dark when their Javascript throws errors, so we’ve added a Hoptoad notifier for Javascript!

Too Smart for Git

The problem isn't that Git is to hard, it's that smart developers are impatient and have exactly zero tolerance for unexpected behavior in their tools. While Git is the trendy thing right now, perhaps some day you will come across a grizzled developer who is using SVN, and when you ask him why, his answer won't make sense, because it's a Zen thing.

gerrit - Project Hosting on Google Code

Gerrit is a web based code review system, facilitating online code reviews for projects using the Git version control system.

When can I use...

Compatibility tables for features in HTML5, CSS3, SVG and other upcoming web technologies

defunkt's fakefs at master - GitHub

A fake filesystem. Use it in your tests.

Think Vitamin » Recurring Billing For Web Apps

Increasingly web application developers and entrepreneurs are turning to the “Software As A Service” (SaaS) model to monetize their products.<br />
Together with this growth has come the need for reliable recurring billing systems and in turn a number of enterprising folks have built said solutions and fittingly used the SaaS model to monetize their efforts.

Derek Powazek - Thoughts on Designing for iPad

Apple’s App Store was a constant source of stress in the development process. Every time another story of Apple randomly booting an app from the store came out, the whole team quaked. The idea that we could do all this work and then Apple could deny the app, or even keep it in limbo forever, made us second- or third-guess every design decision. “Will this pixel hurt our chances of getting accepted?”

ArchitectNotes – Varnish

Well, today computers really only have one kind of storage, and it is usually some sort of disk, the operating system and the virtual memory management hardware has converted the RAM to a cache for the disk storage.

mezzoblue § A CSS3 Tip

All browsers that support the CSS text-shadow and box-shadow properties also support the new CSS3 RGBa syntax. Which means you can safely combine them today.

Stubbornella » Blog Archive » Overflow – a secret benefit

Overflow does some cool things you should know about.

Insertion/Deletion callbacks

All ActiveRecord associations except for has_many :through support callbacks for pre- and post-insertion/deletion via the following, self-documenting parameters:

Cliffski’s Blog » Epic opinions

It turned out this guy was Mark Rein from Epic, although he seemed to assume everyone within earshot knew exactly who he was, and why he must obviously be right. I got the impression he was there to laugh at the little guys, or to just inform us how we are all wrong.

JCommander

JCommander is a very small Java framework that makes it trivial to parse command line parameters.

lojjic's PIE at master - GitHub

A behavior for Internet Explorer allowing it to recognize and render various CSS3 box decoration properties

About PIE – CSS3 PIE: CSS3 decorations for IE

CSS Level 3 brings with it some incredibly powerful styling features. Rounded corners, soft drop shadows, gradient fills, and so on. These are the kinds of elements our designer friends love to use because they make for attractive sites, but are difficult and time-consuming to implement, involving complex sprite images, extra non-semantic markup, large JavaScript libraries, and other lovely hacks.

Ultimate rspec matcher to test named_scope or scoped - Web development blog

What do we expect from the custom finder? We expect that it should find assets A, B, C and should not find assets D, E, F. And sometimes the order is important: it should find A, B C with exact order.

mockko's livereload at master - GitHub

LiveReload applies CSS/JS changes to Safari or Chrome w/o reloading the page

Stubbornella » Blog Archive » Object Oriented CSS, Grids on Github

How do you scale CSS for millions of visitors or thousands of pages? Object Oriented CSS allows you to write fast, maintainable, standards-based front end code. It adds much needed predictability to CSS so that even beginners can participate in writing beautiful websites.

Netty - the Java NIO Client Server Socket Framework - JBoss Community

The Netty project is an effort to provide an asynchronous event-driven network application framework and tools for rapid development of maintainable high performance & high scalability protocol servers & clients.

thoughtbot's bourne at master - GitHub

Test spies are a form of test double that preserves the normal four-phase unit