Movies!

Wat

Seriously hilarious. Also an awesome catalog of e-learning videos. Why didn't I know about this sooner?

Gems

acts_as_api

Putting view logic in your model is never a good idea. This is an anti-pattern. Use a presenter to handle this.

Factory Girl 2.5 Gets Custom Constructors

While we heavily use Factory Girl I can't help but think that it keeps getting more complicated. We're relying on stubs a lot more these days.

Essential Geek Reading

The Trello Tech Stack

I love this stack. Although I'm not completely sold on 100% single page apps things like pushState are slowly convincing me.

Distraction is a Symptom of a Deeper Problem: The Convenience Principle and the Destruction of American Productivity

We believe the right kind of distraction is a symptom that knowledge hasn't been properly socialized on the team. Cross team interruptions however are definitely bad.

An object is not a hash

I can see a whole new generation of javascript injection/cross site scripting issues because of this.

Reference

JSRef - JavaScript Reference Manual

Seems like a YARD style reference for JavaScript built on top of the MDN

How to run rvm scripts as cron jobs?

Dave was having problems with this one earlier this week.

Teamwork

visionmedia/git-extras

Seems like there are some good commands in here for working with teams.