Barack Obama Directs All Federal Agencies to Have an API @ API Evangelist
For some reason, I’m extremely excited about the prospect of government API’s of any sort.
My friend machuga(who’s awesome) takes a swing at hacking his wedding escort cards with Laraval, a new PHP(which I hate) framework for developing web applications. He does a pretty great job of showing you how to set up a simple MVC on a dev environment using a fresh install of Laravel. Show him some love!
John Mueller explains how google uses sitemap.xml
A brief(but informative) SO answer on how Google uses your sitemap to help crawl your site, and what sort of things you can learn about the map of your site URL’s by generating your own sitemap. Thanks for the great answer John!
giant robots smashing into other giant robots: Trail Map
How do I learn Ruby on Rails? Vim? Test-Driven Development?
Someone asks us these questions weekly. We think we finally have good answers.
Extracting answers from apprentice.io
apprentice.io is a program designed around 1-to-1 mentor-to-apprentice relationships with a heavy emphasis on…
SkullSecurity » Blog Archive » Battle.net authentication misconceptions
Really cool and detailed explanation of Battle.net login system, new and old. TL;DR: Battle.net converts passwords to uppercase before hashing them, inexplicably.
Real Time Web with Node.js is now available on CodeSchool and I’m excited to say, it’s quite educational. Learn something new and support CodeSchool!
giant robots smashing into other giant robots: Remove Duplication with FactoryGirl's Traits
FactoryGirl’s traits are an outstanding way to DRY up your tests and factories by naming groups of attributes, callbacks, and associations in one concise area. Imagine defining factories but without the attributes backed by a specific object. Here’s a basic example of a factory with two traits:
Somewhere in Zurich, 2000 Credit Suisse employees are working in 2500 non-territorial, highly designed and modern workspaces. I envy their progress as a company…
Backbone Fundamentals by Addi Osmani
This is ‘Developing Backbone.js Applications’, an (in-progress) book about the Backbone.js framework for structuring JavaScript applications. It’s certainly one of the best resources I’ve found yet(you can get the early O’Reilly edition here). I’m excited to be using new MV* technologies from the JavaScript community, and Backbone is by far one of the most established, active, and documented.
RubyMotion - Ruby, for iOS
Ruby has had some faux iOS options for a while. MacRuby has been the only real “Ruby” option for some time now, if you don’t count building a Ruby backend to serve some kind of Titanium or PhoneGap’d project. Now the creator of MacRuby took things a step further and has written RubyMotion. I’m really excited about what this project might mean, but really need to see some cannon and real-world examples before there’s any kind of investment. The $150 price tag to adopt offends my sensibilities, but I can’t wait to hear about other people trying it!
