Episode #97 Lieutenant Commander Boson reporting for duty. Get the ring tone.
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Show Notes
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RPM For Java
RPM 2 Now supports Java and Ruby 1.9.
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nginx push module
Nginx HTTP push module – Turn nginx into a long-polling message queuing
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Railscast episode on Formtastic
Ryan Bates shows how to use Formtastic in your views.
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The Art of the Library
Wesley Beary posts on the Engine Yard blog about what makes a good library.
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TDD in Objective-C with MacRuby
Joshua Ballanco walks through creating a pig latin translator in objective c using MacRuby to TDD.
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Sunspot
Sunspot exposes all of Solr’s most powerful search features using an API of elegant DSLs. That means robust, flexible fulltext search with no boolean queries and no string programming.
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Inploy
Inploy is another way of doing deployments with different opinions than Capistrano.
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Full Text Search on Heroku using Texticle
Aaron Patterson posts on the Tender Lovemaking blog about using Texticle to do full text searching using Postgres
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Boson
Gabriel Horner put up a tutorial on using Boson to create commands for watching GitHub repos on your shell.
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DeVIL
DevIL is a fast and lightweight image library that supports the loading and saving of images in almost any graphics format. It also provides some basic image manipulation functionality.
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How to Start Sub-processes part 3
Avdi posts on the Devver blog part 3 of starting sub-processes in Ruby.
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rails_on_pg
This is timesaver for middle/large Rails application which used PostgreSQL as database. Create/drop Views, Functions, Triggers, Foreign keys in your migrations using ruby syntax.
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Mappoint/VE
Using the new handsoap gem, Jeff wraps all the nastiness of the VE and Mappoint web SDK SOAP into two very easy to use gems.
http://github.com/jmhodges/mappoint
http://github.com/jmhodges/virtualearth
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“Mark Bates shows how to use Formtastic in your views.”
Umm, his name is Ryan Bates…
http://sadtrombone.com/
@Kieran Whoops, thanks, updated the post
MacRuby can be compiled in the latest release but it needs to be garbage collected, which the iPhone doesn’t do right now…
That being said, the people behind MacRuby seem to be pretty optimistic about the possibility of MacRuby iPhone apps in the future, and might even be able to work it out even without garbage collection.
You guys need some new jokes…
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I gave the nginx_http_push module a try and it works pretty well, although from what I can tell the module’s code is in flux and should settle down in the next couple of days. I wrote up some quick notes on how to get started:
http://gist.github.com/218400
Texticle on the Tender Love Making Blog? yeah thats one I cant click at work haha
I love your old jokes…
yes, I’m a few episodes behind
but, I’ve been systematically converting all my apps to Postgres – absolutely no regrets
it’s great for dev, great for testing, great for production
when it comes to deciding on a DB for a new app, you have to have a good reason to use something other than Postgres – thus far, no good reason has emerged