Sailing down the Hudson with RVM - GIANT ROBOTS SMASHING INTO OTHER GIANT ROBOTS
We recently decided our CI server needed an overhaul. I really enjoyed Integrity as a build server, but after trying out Hudson it’s hard to say I want to go back. Hudson has several huge advantages.
Rethinking PDF Creation in Ruby
We're excited to announce PDFKit, an open source library that makes working with wkhtmltopdf a snap.
wkhtmltopdf - Project Hosting on Google Code
Simple shell utility to convert html to pdf using the webkit rendering engine, and qt.
Transparency in Web Design | CSS-Tricks
Let’s take a gander at four different ways. Each of them handling the illusion in a different way, and each completely appropriate depending on the situation at hand.
Dokan » Blog Archive » Dokan Ruby 0.1.4 released
Dokan Ruby is a Ruby extension library to write a file system for Windows. This extension also has compatible API with FuseFS (Ruby extension for FUSE). You can write a file system only in 25 lines.
A tracer utility in 2kb « JavaScript, JavaScript
Inspired by a snippet of code in Oliver Steele’s legendary Functional library, here’s a lightweight tool to help keep track of JavaScript invocations. It works in Chrome, Safari, Firebug and IE8.
Handy! RGB to HSL and RGB to HSV color model conversion algorithms in JavaScript - Axon Flux // A Ruby on Rails Blog
Here is a set of additive color model conversion algorithms that I found published on Wikipedia and have implemented in JavaScript.
Creating Filesystems with Ruby and FUSE
The FUSE project allows you to create filesystems in userspace - which means you can create a filesystem without having to get your hands dirty and modify your kernel source. This is insanely cool, and can be used for many purposes. Here we're going to look at using the Ruby bindings to create a simple filesystem.
Wintermute Engine
Wintermute Engine Development Kit is a set of tools for creating and running graphical “point&click” adventure games, both traditional 2D ones and modern 2.5D games (3D characters on 2D backgrounds). The kit includes the runtime interpreter (Wintermute Engine, or WME) and GUI editors for managing and creating the game content (WME tools) as well as the documentation, demonstrational data and prefabricated templates.
Handy: A regex that validates all valid email addresses (give or take) - Axon Flux // A Ruby on Rails Blog
/^([\w!#$%&'*+-/=?^`{|}~]+.)*[\w!#$%&'*+-/=?^`{|}~]+@((((([a-z0-9]{1}[a-z0-9-]{0,62}[a-z0-9]{1})|[a-z]).)+[a-z]{2,6})|(\d{1,3}.){3}\d{1,3}(:\d{1,5})?)$/i
Lessons learned from 13 failed software products « Successful Software
I asked other software entrepreneurs to share their stories of failure in the hope that we might save others from making the same mistakes. To my surprise I got excellent 12 responses, which I include below along with one of my own. It is a small sample and biased by self selection, but I think it contains a lot of useful insights.
Will Rails 3 obstruct plugin innovation? - Gem Session
Where there was once a consistent API to manipulate and hook into the lifecycle of a persistent object, plugins must now perform very careful checks whether an object supports more advanced traits like transactions, observers or dirty attribute tracking.
jnicklas's carrierwave at master - GitHub
File upload solution that supports form roundtrips when a validation fails.
How bad is link rot? A study of dead links
In order to find out whether I'm having a problem with link rot, I wrote a script that goes through my bookmarks and checks for dead links.