Customizing Form Elements with CSS3

37Signals wrote up this nice tutorial - it's specific to WebKit

Remote Cucumber Tests on IE

A great tutorial on getting your cucumber tests running on IE remotely

Gem Development

Use Bundler to create your ruby gems and laugh while learning how

OmniAuth

Let your users choose!

Quick Left-overs is a weekly series of things that end up in our "FancyBookLearning" Campfire room that we thought were interesting.

Improve your Cukes

Setting up more user-friendly and reusable selector calls in Cucumber

ImpactJS

Developing native iOS games with js

BDD

A great, full intro to outside-in development on the RubyLearning blog by Harold Giménez at thoughtbot

Socky

A rails implementation of a push server to be used with js websockets

Roodi

Nitpick

Reek

A whole grip of ruby code analysis tools - check yo'self before you wreck yo'self

Jammit

An alternative to asset packager for Rails

Backbone

A super lightweight JS app framework

Nested Attributes Rails Vulnerability

Beware if you're running versions 2.3.9 or 3.0.0!

Quick Left-overs is a weekly series of things that end up in our "FancyBookLearning" Campfire room that we thought were interesting.

Alpha JPEGs

JPEGs with Alpha Channels?!?

Options

Boulder's own Ara Howard from dojo4 released a sweet library for working with ruby options hashes

Fast Good Cheap

How potential clients can ask for the unachievable and what you should (maybe) tell them

RPG Chat

Made purely with html5 and JS websockets

Rock Star?

What not to say when attempting to hire developers

Dick Costolo

Some quick lessons from the CEO of Twitter

Quick Left-overs is a weekly series of things that end up in our "FancyBookLearning" Campfire room that we thought were interesting.

Stack Fu

Social server deployments (whatever that means)

yajl-ruby

A streaming JSON parsing and encoding library for Ruby (C bindings to yajl)

Almost out of IPv4 address space!

jQuery.Hive

jQuery Plugin for creating and managing web workers across implementations. Go here for a nice intro.

Beanstalkd

A simple, fast work queue.

iProcessing

Develop native iPhone applications using the Processing language! Pretty sweet.

APNS Gem

Gem for the Apple Push Notification Service.

Quick Left-overs is a weekly series of things that end up in our "FancyBookLearning" Campfire room that we thought were interesting.

Stickler

Host your own private gem server

SproutCore has new touch events

ControlTower

A web server in MacRuby

New Twitter

The tech behind the new Twitter

Google Two-Factor authentication

Google to roll out two-factor authentication

OpenX Security Vulnerabilities

We witness this first hand!

VideoJS

Slick HTML5 video player

QuickLeftovers is a weekly series of things that end up in our "FancyBookLearning" Campfire room that we thought were interesting.

Aruba

Great set of Cucumber steps for command line applications.

Really slick HTML5 video chat

A TimeCop GOTCHA

"when using Time.now in named scopes, that will method will only be called when the model is loaded in to memory. therefore, in the cukes if you are using timecop to advance the time, the model will still use the old time when calling the named scope. instead, use class methods such as "def self.find_after_today" and set the time in that method to Time.now"

Dragonfly

Paperclip replacement?

Named scopes in rails 2.x GOTCHA

"Seems to only happen in cucumber tests, but when using named scopes in rails 2.x, automatic association loads no longer seem to happen so views could break. things like "post.user.first_name" will throw mean errors. to fix, add :joins and :include in your named scope definition"

QuickLeftovers is a weekly series of things that end up in our "FancyBookLearning" Campfire room that we thought were interesting.

It was a sunny, hot Friday afternoon when we packed the cooler and headed to our nearby park to take on another local company, Slice of Lime, in a heated shuffleboard match.

It's hard to say who won…since we were playing with modified rules and not really keeping score. But it is safe to say that if your version of company team-building doesn’t include cold beer, shady benches and much laughter, then your company definitely isn't invited next time.

Many thanks to Slice of Lime for providing the equipment and the great idea. We just provided the hot shuffleboard moves.

I wanted to start some kind of blog series but was severely lacking in inspiration when my co-worker Ryan sparked an ‘Aha!’ moment. Someone was asking him about his lunch plans when he mentioned that he only had time for some quick leftovers.

Genius.

And many thanks Ryan.

With the back story out of the way, I present to you the first edition of Quick Leftovers. (Insert amazing theme song here.)