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Links of the Week 5

Instead of posting links the minute I find them, I've started holding on to them for a week and then blasting you with them if they still hold my interested by the end of the week. Read more...

The Twelve-Factor App

If we wanted to move our app to Heroku here is how we'd have to design it!

Evaluating alternative Decorator implementations in Ruby

Decorators, and presenters, and patterns! Oh, my!

Media queries and multiple columns

A cool way to use @media queries to create dynamic columns based on the vertical height. Not applicable to our upcoming redesign though.

wbailey/command_line_reporter

We have lots of scripts which execute on the command line. This seems like a good way to get feedback from them. We currently use "puts" :)

Factory Girl 2.4.0 (Factory Girl 2.4 Goes Meta)

Our application has 6000 factory instances in it. This should speed things up a lot.

Paulasmuth/fnordmetric - GitHub

Seems like a self-hosted version of mixpanel.com with less analysis.

Exceptional Ruby: Master the art of handling failure in Ruby

Avdi has some great blog posts and this is sure to be great as well.

Android Design

Design reading for all, not just Android developers.