Essential Reading

The Hacker Way

Essential Reading.

Introducing Chrome for Android

I hope this spurs some competition from Apple. I'd love to use that remote debugging everywhere.

thoughtbot presents: The Playbook

Noticed a bunch of new improvements on the playbook. Very inspiring.

Testing

Decoupling Data from Presentation

I'm not a fan of using data-attributes for this purpose but it's an interesting take. Storing state in data-attributes always seems so non-semantic to me.

Yes, You Should Write Controller Tests!

Yes. Yes you should.

Acceptance and Integration Testing With Kookaburra

I feel like I dreamt about this after reading the same book. This is killer, I can see even non-developers using the Domain Driver.

Ruby/Rails

ileitch / hijack

I'm not sure where I would use this, but I have a feeling I should save it for reference.

josevalim / active_model_serializers

I really want these to be in Rails. In any case I really want to convert our application to use them. Great idea.

assembler / browsernizer

An easy way to inform people that they need to upgrade their browser.

Ruby Trick Shots

Cool tips that you may not know about Ruby.

Database

PostgreSQL by Harold Giménez

Cool Presentation on PostgreSQL. Thanks to @releod for tweeting it.

VIM

Vim anti-patterns

I do basically everything that they say you should not. Slowly...weaning...

JavaScript

Backbone versus Ember Transcript

Long and civil argument between wycats and jashkenas. Very very interesting.

UIkit Modern UI components for the modern web

Some of these components are pretty sweet. I can see myself using them on new projects.

JavaScript Jabber

New weekly JavaScript podcast.

Design

engineyard / engineyard-theme

This is an interesting way to make your theme easily includable in other projects. We're following this approach for our next redesign of Woople.

What's the difference between a dashboard and an activity stream/feed?

Surprisingly interesting thread. Last version of Woople we basically called everything a dashboard. Next version we be much clearer.

Pears

I was a little confused at first thinking this was another html/css framework. It's actually much better, a framework for documenting your framework. Huzzah!