Kanban vs. Iterative Development — Agile Web Operations

If you need big synchronization points, e.g. for big marketing campaigns, you might be better off using an iterative development approach. If you want to ensure a continuous flow of features, which are optimized for time to market (cycle time), Kanban might work better for you.

tbuser's acts_as_pradipta at master - GitHub

What Pradipta Archiputra (aka "MAX ARCHIE") uses to send his recruitment emails. This plugin pretends that CC and BCC

CSS Differences in Internet Explorer 6, 7 and 8 « Smashing Magazine

If I ruled the world, IE would not be used by people. Since that is not the case, we need to put these rules to memory.

Browsera - Automated Cross Browser Web Application Testing Service

Automated cross-browser testing finds layout problems and scripting errors on websites before users do.

The DevIL Image Library For Ruby « Like Dream of Banister Fiend

DevIL is a fast, lightweight image library for loading, saving, and basic manipulation across many graphics formats.

Codaset // joelmoss / Rails Concerns

Concerns is a simple Rails plugin that provides you with a simple way to organise your Controllers, Models and Mailers, and split them into smaller chunks of logic. It is especially useful when you have lengthly models, and you get fed with having to scroll through several hundred lines of code.

iPhone App Store roulette: A tale of rejection | Mobilize - InfoWorld

Apple's random rules for iPhone app approval are a recipe for trivial apps and alienated developers

Validatious 2.0 - Easy form validation with unobtrusive JavaScript

Client-side form validation in JavaScript can be concise and unobtrusive, with chained rules for required fields and email format.

Google Chrome Frame - Google Code

Google Chrome Frame is a plugin for Internet Explorer that embeds the entire Chrome web rendering engine inside IE.

SecureRandom -- Stop writing your own random number and string generators - Momoro Machine

Stop writing your own random string generators. Rails does this for you.

has_many :bugs, :through => :rails: Make your shoulda tests faster with fast_context

decided to go fixtureless with Shoulda + Factory Girl. All good, except one problem. Slow as fuck tests. So here’s fast_context as a solution for it. fast_context compiles all the ‘should’s within a context into a single test.

aanand's deadweight at master - GitHub

Deadweight is RCov for CSS, kind of. Given a set of stylesheets and a set of URLs, it determines which selectors are actually used and reports which can be "safely" deleted.

ActiveRecord Optimization with Scrooge - igvita.com

The idea behind scrooge is both surprisingly simple and powerful: instead of forcing the developer to manually specify each attribute column, simply observe and record for some period of time all of the attribute accesses and then reuse this knowledge in the future to automatically optimize your subsequent query requests.

Ruby Metaprogramming: Dynamically Inherited Methods™ | upstream agile - software

All methods generated by string_attr_reader are now added to that new module instead of the class. The result is that when overriding those methods you can now call super because they’re are inherited from the new module.

Background - cucumber - GitHub

Shared setup adds context to scenarios in a feature and runs before each scenario, after Before hooks.

Tracking Down Slow-Running Examples in RSpec » Idol Hands: An Alpha Geek Guide to Ruby on Rails, DIY, and More

Passing the --profile flag to RSpec produces some additional output, namely the running times of the ten slowest examples in your specs.

Using SSL in Rails Applications

On any page accessed with SSL, all Ajax requests must use SSL, or they will fail. To make this happen, all you need to do is include the names of the actions that service the requests in your ssl_required statement.

Testing with IE6, IE7 and IE8 on VirtualBox | Shape Shed

Free browser testing setup on OSX or Ubuntu using VirtualBox makes legacy Internet Explorer versions available without Parallels.