Archive for the ‘Web development’ Category

Business 2.0 recently published an article on the world’s hottest startups outside the US and Bezurk was picked. Nice to know that ;)

YSlow is a Firefox extension that works with Firebug to grade your web pages’ performance and gives you advice on how to fix any problems. Awesome. It has JSLint built into it too. And yes I got a big freaking F. Via Arun (IRL).

Tom Preston-Werner (of Gravatar and Chronic fame) wrote about this neat MySQL command line “trick” where instead of ending your SELECT statements with the usual semi-colon, using a “\G” gives you a very readable output. mysql> select * from locations where location_code = ‘SIN’ limit 1\G *************************** 1. row *************************** location_code: SIN location_name: Singapore Changi [...]

God is a new process monitoring Ruby framework with a rather apt name (no, it’s not that God). The config files looks something like that: God.meddle do |god| god.watch do |w| … end end Interesting code to write. And feels safe too to have God watching over your mongrels. Oh and you can use it [...]

Update: Edge Rails now does whatever Jsonifier does (and more). Check out my blog post on JSON serialization maturity in edge Rails. This means that this plugin is virtually obsolete if you’re using edge Rails. If you’ve tried to output JSON from your Rails applications before, you’d probably have noticed how inadequate it all seems. [...]