#086 - sep 28th 2014

Edito

This is the week of ShellShock, as most of you already know, this is going to be a troubled time for old servers again (well, who still uses cgi scripts, right?). On a brighter side, I also went to rails pacific yesterday, it was nice to meet some Green Ruby subscribers there.

Look

Examples of UI/UX, graphic performance, web design and flashy things.

Guillaume Bouvet
Very graphical website for a carpenter craftsman.
Dropbox Guides
New guide for dropbox users is a piece of work.

Use

Web applications, resources and tools, available for making our life easier or funnier.

Regex 101
Yet another regexp online testing tool.
Ruby Science
(Book) The reference for writing fantastic Rails applications.
Material Design
Bootstrap theme based on Google Material design.
Awesome Shell
A curated list of awesome command-line frameworks, toolkits, guides and gizmos.

Install

A selection of gems or applications updated during past week.

ScrLib
Polyglot code analysis library, built with hackability in mind.
Trailblazer
Thin layer on top of Rails, with a more modern code structure.
Rails Disco
A distributed party with commands, events and projections.
Pact
Consumer driven contract testing framework.
TTY
The Ruby toolbox that you can use for building CLI projects.
Bash Booster
When Chef is too heavy, use Bash Booster, using Bash only.

Read

From the blogosphere or news feeds ...

You Don't Have to Be Afraid to Test Your UI	sep 21
About Page Object Pattern and Site prism gem.
npm 2.0.0 details	sep 22
All the story behind npm 2.
Various ways to create structs	sep 22
Some thinking about creating structs.
Onboarding Junior Developers	sep 23
Thoughts on Kate Heddleston’s talk at GoGaRuCo 2014.
How I deploy a Rails app using Docker	sep 23
Getting an app deployed inside a Docker container..
Wrapping Your API In A Custom Ruby Gem	sep 25
If you have an API, publishing a gem for using it makes sense.
Build a rails application without database	sep 26
Occasionally, you may want to build a Rails app without ActiveRecord.
Prefer Objects as Method Parameters, Not Class Names	sep 26
Some kind of class-oriented programming.
Why You Should be Excited About Hadoop 2.0	sep 26
Hadoop 2.0 is a whole new elephant.

Watch

Screencasts and conferences videos, or other video feeds ...

Velocity Conference 2014 (30 videos)	sep 21
Web performance and operations.
AtoZ CSS: Unicode-range (6m)	sep 24
About font-face and unicode-range.
Gorails #25 (16m)	sep 28
Forum Series Part 1: Architecture.

Listen

What could be heard last week ..

Giant robots #117 (27m)	sep 22
Designing Quality (Will Sulinski).
Ruby5 498 (7m)	sep 23
Ruby 2.1.3, Goldiloader, Airborne, Eager Loading, Daemons, Swift for Rubyists.
Ruby Rogues 175 (41m)	sep 24
Civic Hacking with William Jeffries.
Javascript Jabber 127 (56m)	sep 24
Changes in npm-Land with Forrest Norvell, Rebecca Turner, Ben Coe, and Isaac Z. Schlueter.
Web platform #12 (57m)	sep 26
Flux Application Architecture & React.
The Cloudcast #163 (27m)	sep 26
Evolution of CoreOS.
Ruby5 499 (5m)	sep 26
shell shock, hangar, rubytapas, from tails 3.2 to 4.3, burn.

Links curated by mose (editor).

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