Daily Dose


20
Aug 08

Daily Dose #4

Bourbon Creams and Bananas are not a balanced diet.

Phusion Passenger on Amazon EC2
Some useful stuff relating to Phusion Passenger (mod_rails) on Amazons Elastic Computing Cloud.

Moving from Java to C#
A senior ThoughtWorker talks about his first C# project 10 years after he first tasted the Java bean.

IPhone GUI PSD
Some photoshop goodies for mocking up IPhone UI’s.


14
Aug 08

Daily Dose #3

More estimating today! Calculating velocity tomorrow… Joy!

Y Combinator’s Demo Day Summer 2008
Some y-combinator startups show of there stuff.

YUI 3 Preview
Personally i prefer ExtJS but more choice in this area is good for all.

AppStore Developer TapTapTap Publishes Sales Figures
Interesting stats from TapTapTap – Makes me think I should building IPhone apps ;-)


13
Aug 08

Daily Dose #2

Spent the best part of the day estimating development effort for an upcoming project… Yarn.

CMS Rails Kit
Ben Curtis has released a new CMS Rails Kit.

The Ruby Hoedown in 10 minutes
The guys from Rails Envy give a quick review of the Ruby Hoedown.

Ruby Visual Identity Team
Want to show the world that you love Ruby? Get a high quality Ruby image for your website.

ar-extensions 0.8.0 released!
Some handy extensions to Active Record that now work with Rails 2.1


12
Aug 08

Daily Dose #1

A few links to get us going…

IPhone Development

iphone-universal
Normalized CSS & HTML framework to develop iPhone webdev applications

C#

Simple REST Client
Some .NET code for consuming RESTful web services.

Rails

Understanding Map and Reduce
Some underused collection functions in Ruby

OS X Utils

Expandrive
Cool app that allows you to mount a sFtp folder.

MarsEdit
Powerful Blog Publishing For Your Mac.