Interesting tidbits from around the web (August 6th):
- Son of Grok » Blog Archive » (Almost) Primal Poppers – everything is better with bacon
- olauzon’s tempatra at master – GitHub – A Sinatra application generator providing Blueprint CSS, jQuery, Haml, Sass, Compass, RSpec, Cucumber, and Capybara.
- WeeChat, the extensible chat client – another text based irc client, feels a bit like irssi
- Upstack – Products – Looks like another crowd sourced design platform.
- Auto-scale your Resque workers on Heroku | Verbose Logging – interesting post on how to get resque to auto-scale workers and how to get it all working on heroku
- Redis To Go | Resque with Redis To Go – Setting up resque with redis to go
- Komodo Media » Blog Archive » Social Network Icon Pack – huge set of social networking/media icons.
- matej’s MBProgressHUD at master – GitHub – MBProgressHUD is an iPhone drop-in class that displays a translucent HUD with a progress indicator and some optional labels while work is being done in a background thread. The HUD is meant as a replacement for the undocumented, private UIKit UIProgressHUD with some additional features.
Spent some time hacking away on project MSM. Was trying to get it pushed out to heroku today but I’m losing that fight. Has something to do with compass, sass and sass-on-heroku. I’ve moved compass out of the gem manifest, put it in environments/development.rb, wrapped the initializer with a check for Rails.env == “development”. I’m storing the generated css in git to push it across. I’ll play with it tomorrow I guess. Might be related to where compass likes to store sass and output the generated css.
Interesting tidbits from around the web
Still not sure whether to watch github repos, follow the authors, or bookmark them in delicious.
- fancy-buttons – Fancy CSS buttons using compass
- Designing CSS Buttons – Lots to say about buttons today.
- readernaut – in beta, found while trying to solve my heroku problems, oddly enough. Social reading. Here’s the 100 Best Books of the Decade (according to TimesOnline) to get you started. In case you were wondering, The DaVinci Code was #10.
- FFb3- Another beta, another opportunity. Still not happy with tabs and firefox, mostly restoring tabs, I won’t be trying until after I’m done here. This is why I care if they get restored.
- 7 Tips To Make Your Web Site Mobile-friendly – Browsed a couple of my sites on the Droid, and I have a pretty sizable display, there’s plenty of work for me to do in this area.
- MacRuby 0.5b2 – Keeps moving along, want to play with this at some point, soon I hope.
- Passenger 2.2.7 – WordPress updates, passenger update, going to be a server admin party in someone’s future.
