A decent laundry list for setting up an Ubuntu production server that includes: security, nginx, monogo, memcached, node, ruby+rails, monit, and lograte.
Not the best written, but, not terrible either. Use it as a guide, not as cannon.
Cute little tool that picks a random color and displays the palettes of the most popular shots from Dribbble that contain that color.
Just what it sounds like, a browsable repository of jQuery plugins, for good and for justice!
Sly is a JavaScript library for advanced one-directional scrolling with item based navigation support. And it’s damn well built.
If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the people to gather the wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.
Practicalcloud boostrapping is probably one of the easier ways to provision an EC2 instance for your app. Be sure to check out how EC2 tags and a bucket of scripts on S3 can provision entire clusters!
If you’re anything like me, all these game engine JS libs sound pretty interesting to you, but, you’re not sure what your options are.
Problem solved!
Awesome demo of a radial menu in pure CSS3.
Flat UI color trends, what else is there to say really.
Lots of nice flat UI examples, too.
TraceView by AppNeta provides deep performance monitoring of web applications.
It gives you insight into your web application performance such as this:
and a per request drill-down that shows you the nitty gritty detail of where time is spent in individual requests (full-size):
and…
An awesome little gem that buys you some of the same behavior as a client-side MV* framework. By reworking the render partial helper, including a few JS libs, and adding an extra method to your controllers you can get that “real time” look and feel from your browser while still using Ruby and Rails. Definitely worth the time to check out.
Great little post on estimation, System I and II thought process(ala Kahneman’s “Thinking, Fast and Slow”) and what we can learn about software estimation from studies on human cognition.
This might contain a ton of information you have read elsewhere(or conclusions you had made earlier based on Kahneman’s book), but, it might be one of the most illuminating reads on productivity and estimation you’ve ever seen.
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