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#062 - apr 13th 2014

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The week of the bleeding heart was busy with server upgrades. ruby recompilation, SSL renewals, passwords and keys rotations. There are so many posts about it this week.

Look

Examples of UI/UX, graphic performance, web design and flashy things.
Active Theory
An impressive portfolio.
Mental Notes
A set of cards representing psychology traits that belong web design world.
Design for the web
A free book about web design.

Use

Web applications, resources and tools, available for making our life easier or funnier.
Heartbleed tests tool
This one is obvious, but there is also a reverse Heartbleed tester and ruby standlone testing code.
Cross platform password manager tool
All this password changing may be a good time to consider using one of those tools (but I prefer pass personally).
Flaticon design
The largest database of free vector icons.
Ruby Survey 2014 rb
Started in 2008, this survey is the 4th of its kind.
Angular-rails rb
A free Micro eBook on Getting Started with Angular on Rails.
Designer resources design
160+ sites, apps & books that I recommend any designer should check out.
RegExr tool
An online tool to learn, build, & test Regular Expressions.
Superhero.js js
A collection of the best articles, videos and presentations about javascript.
Developer Agents tool
A shared newsletter promoting talented developers as soon as they become available.

Install

A selection of gems or applications updated during past week.
Rails 4.1 rb
Spring, Variants, Enums, Mailer previews, secrets.yml.
Passenger 4.0.41 devops
The OpenSSL Heartbleed security update.
ExpressJS 4 js
Some nice performance improvements (but upgrading can use some attention).
Web-repl rb
Javascript/Web REPL in Ruby.
iHover css3
CSS3 hover effects pack.
PredictionIO tool
An open source machine learning server from Mozilla.

Read

From the blogosphere or news feeds ...
Go for Rubyists apr 3 go
Another go primer that covers the very basics of Go and compares with ruby code.
Crafting a conference talk apr 4 tool
An extensive fedback about how to give talks.
4 Signs You're Doing Agile Development Wrong apr 4 tool
Agile is nice, when it works. When it doesn't, here are some hints about why.
Running ElasticSearch, LogStash and Kibana in Docker apr 6 ops
Comments about getting the ELK up in containers.
Linking docker containers with a Serf ambassador apr 7 devops
An example setup for linking containers.
Ruby 2.1 GC: ready for production apr 8 rb
A good reason to use Ruby 2.1.1 in production.
Using a Ruby Class To Write Functional Code apr 8 rb
A post from Pat with once agin very deep insights into ruby language.
How To Build A Ruby Gem apr 8 rb
With Bundler, Test-Driven Development, Travis CI And Coveralls. A long article.
The Insider's Guide to JavaScript Interviewing apr 9 js
Questions to ask to see if your JS candidates are what they think they are.
Heartbleed and ruby apr 10 rb
How is Ruby affected by the bleeding.
Extract Mostly-Constant Data from the Database apr 11 rb
Just some common sense to the sake of performance.

Watch

Screencasts and conferences videos, or other video feeds ...
AngularJS and i18n (34m) apr 9 js
A talk by Pascal Precht at kod.io 2014.

Listen

What could be heard last week ..
Giant robots #93 (42m) apr 7 web
Diversity of Approach (David Nolen from NY Times).
Ruby5 454 (6m) apr 8 rb
postgres, tips for hiring, ruby love, proposals, conference talk, json schema, build a ruby gem, apis with rails.
Ruby5 455 (9m) apr 8 rb
Heartbleed, tco gem, ruby 2.1 GC, hound, rails 4.1.
Ruby Rogues 151 (1h02) apr 9 rb
The Jim Weirich Tribute Episode.
Javascript Jabber 103 (1h04) apr 9 js
Robots with Raquel VĂ©lez.
Links curated by mose (editor).

Green Ruby News was a feed of fresh links of the week about ruby, javascript, webdev, devops, collected by mose, xenor and tysliu every sunday.