If we want mobile applications to stay around as a sustainable business, we need to be more honest about the strengths and weaknesses of a touchscreen UI, rather than salivating...
...in the age of CD-ROMs now. Our price-points are all over the shop, and a sealed environment like the iPad permits all kinds of unnatural pricing inversions. We...
They can ship their own product and give it away till you go bust, then start charging for it; and use secret APIs you can’t see; and they can...
You know how you tell when an app for the iPhone was written in MonoTouch? It doesn’t leak memory...
Pretty print your Ruby objects with style -- in full color and with proper indentation
Steak is like Cucumber but in plain Ruby...
Rails plugin which adds a convenient way to override attr_accessible protection.... You can mark certain attributes as trusted for...
Rack middleware for rate-limiting incoming HTTP requests.
...a REST API, in fact, does not. The closest I’ve found is the Sun Cloud API which actually defines a number of custom media types for resources and is...
...discoverable based on a single known end-point. Everyone else, thanks for playing...
When so many obviously spammy and trademark-infringing apps are getting through, it makes every trivial rejection by real developers even more frustrating...
...Plugin for Ruby on Rails - allows you to use md5 or timestamps in query string or in asset filenames as suggested by Google Page Speed
Because javascript has something called "Hoisting" which makes your code do things it doesn't look like it should be doing. Basically, that means a javascript interpreter will move all...
File upload solution that supports form roundtrips when a validation fails...
Provides an irb session to an existing ruby process...
Priority a billion: EVERYTHING YOU CARE ABOUT
Test spies are a form of test double that preserves the normal four-phase unit
LiveReload applies CSS/JS changes to Safari or Chrome w/o reloading the page
A behavior for Internet Explorer allowing it to recognize and render various CSS3 box decoration properties
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...
We didn’t want to leave front-end developers in the dark when their Javascript throws errors, so we’ve...
Run your Jasmine specs without a browser
...execute browser-less, console-based, javascript + DOM code right from within your Rails test suite...