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Quick Left-overs for May 11th - May 23rd

Skeleton

CSS and JS boilerplate for mobile-friendly development. Naturally, Paul Irish is already a committer.

TermKit

An interesting proof-of-concept for a graphical terminal.

Scrollability

Nice and fancy native scrolling in CSS for mobile devices.

pjax-rails

Sample code from DHH on implementing PJAX in Rails.

Ruby HTTP Libs

Benchmark examples with a bunch of ruby HTTP libraries.

jQuery Chrono

Adding some syntax love to timeouts and intervals in javascript.

Learning to Love Javascript

A Google IO talk.

CoffeeScript - the cool parts

A quick overview of CoffeeScript.

jQuery Masonry

A jQuery based layout helper.

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Quick Left-Overs for Mar 2nd - Mar 15th

Canvas/SVG Performance on iOS

Some quick benchmarks.

Sinatra 1.2 Release

Check out the new features!

Knockout.js

A dynamic UI JS library.

Cleavage

Code to allow a PhoneGap built iOS application to be included in an existing native app.

Extendable.js

JS object namespacing.

Exec.js

Execute javascript in ruby and get back ruby objects.

Goliath

A non-blocking asynchronous web server utilizing fibers in Ruby 1.9

Yepnope.js

Asynchronous conditional JS loading.

Now.js

Client/Server variable and code syncing with Node.js

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Quick Left-Overs for Feb 15th - Mar 1st

JavaScript Typing

Did you know that typeof [ ] evaluates to an object? Funky stuff.

Chrome Caching

Get up to speed on Chrome's complex caching system.

JS Hint

The evolution of JS Lint begins.

Google web fonts

Google's new hosted web font service.

Rails Benchmarking

Deciding which metrics are valuable and which are garbage.

Dot JS

Easily run a custom script on any page, every time it loads.

HTML5

The HTML5 spec pared down for developers, not browser builders.

Nesta CMS

CMS on top of Sinatra. Heroku ready. Developer friendly.

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Quick Left-Overs for Feb 9th - Feb 15th

Ruby 1.9.2 and Heroku
Heroku announced their plans for full support of 1.9.2!

Comfortable Mexican Sofa
A fancy CMS with a silly name

Loading Spinners

Some examples of loading spinners using only CSS

Git Immersion

Learn the fundamentals of Git

Deferreds in jQuery 1.5

A great tutorial full of examples on the deferred functionality that is new to jQuery

Vim Fugitive

A full featured git plugin for vim

dust.js

Yet another JS templating engine

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Quick Left-Overs for Feb 2nd - Feb 8th

Isotope

Pretty impressive jQuery plugin for layouts by David Desandro.

Formtastic

Nice Rails from builder.

Some nice CSS snippets

Custom scrollbars for webkit

Awesome @font-face syntax

Killer JSON viewer

History of the User-Agent string

Another JS HTML5 Chart Engine

Rails 3.1 mountable engines

Really looking forward to this.

HTML5 canvas sprite optimization

Video on jQuery Templates


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Quick Left-overs for Jan 19 - Jan 27

Fog
A Ruby gem to help simplify working with clouds. Support for Amazon AWS, Blue Box Group, Brightbox, Google, Linode, Local, Rackspace, Slicehost, Terremark, and Zerigo. As the saying goes, to the CLOUD!!

Putting Apps on the Web
Will the new trend towards encapsulating functionality into apps steer us away from the Web as we know it? Discuss amongst yourselves (and with Couch).

Clever Algorithms: Nature-Inspired Programming Recipes
Step your algorithm game up! Including 'Complete code examples in the Ruby programming language.'

Sight - The Syntax Highlighter Chrome
Is your code reading in the browser lacking in joy? Could you use some pick-me-up as you learn and/or debug? Sight's here for you.



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Quick Left-overs for Jan 10 - Jan 18

Rush

Replacement for the unix shell (bash, zsh, etc) which uses pure Ruby syntax.

Plupload

Upload handler with extensive jQuery widget.

Dom Monster

Cross-platform, cross-browser bookmarklet JavaScript performance tool.

jsPerf

Easy way to create and share JavaScript test cases.

DIY @font-face

Deep thoughts on using @font-face and generating your own.

Git Immersion

Guided tour that walks through the fundamentals of Git.

CSS3 Pie

Teach Internet Explorer 6-8 several new CSS3 decoration features.

New Twitter Has Become Browser Poison

Does New Twitter kill browsers?

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Quick Left-overs for Dec 4 - Jan 10

Backbone.js

MVC structure for Javascript heavy applications.

Impact js

HTML5 game engine. No plugins necessary.

T-Minus

Generate a landing page for your Rails app with campaign monitor integration.

Rails Admin

Rails 3 engine for easily managing your app's data.

vim: A text-object for Ruby block

Select blocks of Ruby code with vim.

Zombie.js

Insanely fast, headless full-stack testing using Node.js

Find Unused CSS with Deadweight

Find unused legacy selectors in your bloated CSS files.

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Quick Left-overs for Nov 29 - Dec 3

Style Up!

A history of CSS resets.

Janus

Setup your MacVim dotfiles with style!

Relish

A gorgeous UI for your cucumber tests.

HeadJS

Download in parallel - execute in order.

SSL in Rails

Some good tips and information on enforcing SSL in Rails.

Rails 3 Engines

A nice little demo Rails3 Engine packaged in a gem.

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Quick Left-overs Catch Up Edition

Get Your Refinements On!

Using RVM, load up the bleeding-edge Ruby with Shugo Maeda's refinements feature.

Speed Tracer

A neat site profiling tool from Google.

Object Scopes in Rails 3.1

An update from Aaron Patterson on some new features coming in Rails 3.1.

Akephalos

An up-and-comer in the headless browser testing arena, Akephalos uses HTMLunit and is fast as all get-out. Checkout this article from thoughtbot and their fork as well.

Selenium: Headless

If Akephalos isn't for you, try having selenium run headless on your CI box.

Named Arguments in JS

A cool library to add named arguments to your javascript functions.

Rubular

A web-based Ruby regular expression editor.

mod_pagespeed

An apache module from Google to decrease page load times.

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