résumé of shorts

Yaketee (‘ya-ke-t’E) is a message board with a twist. To post...

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:05:10 -0800

Yaketee (‘ya-ke-t’E) is a message board with a twist. To post and read messages, you have to be on the same network as the people you’re exchanging messages with.

Vanity, the first Experiment Driven Development framework for...

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 01:15:00 -0800

Vanity, the first Experiment Driven Development framework for Rails.

Necktie: dress to impress Our minimalistic server configuration...

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:18:09 -0800

Necktie: dress to impress

Our minimalistic server configuration tool, on Github

Apartly, an exciting new service coming in November. Check out...

Sat, 24 Oct 2009 12:29:37 -0700

Apartly, an exciting new service coming in November.

Check out Apartly and read more about it here.

880river

Tue, 18 Aug 2009 22:46:50 -0700

880river:

My new venture. What exactly we do, you’ll get to find soon enough.

Ruby In Practice

Sat, 07 Mar 2009 21:32:00 -0800

The best tool is the one that gets the job done in the most efficient and effective way possible. Many developers are discovering that the best often happens to be Ruby. As the authors of Ruby in Practice observe, by using Ruby you can impress your friends, appease your boss, get work done, have fun, go home early, and have a life.
Ruby in Practice increases your productivity by showing you specific Ruby techniques you can use in your projects. The book offers detailed strategies for using Ruby in a large-scale environment. You’ll see concrete examples of integration, messaging, web development, and databases, all presented in a clear Problem/Solution format. This book won’t help you push your deadline back, but it will help you get the job done in less time.

PDF and paperback available from Manning. Paperback from Amazon.

Singleshot

Sun, 01 Mar 2009 00:57:00 -0800

Singleshot, atask manager you’ll enjoy using.

Assaf's Profile — GitHub

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 16:38:08 -0700

Assaf's Profile — GitHub:

Pretty much everything I’m working on these days has source hosted on the wonderful GitHub and is only a git clone away.

Buildr

Mon, 05 Nov 2007 21:20:00 -0800

Buildr is a build system for Java applications. We wanted something that’s simple and intuitive to use, so we only need to tell it what to do, and it takes care of the rest. But also something we can easily extend for those one-off tasks, with a language that’s a joy to use. And of course, we wanted it to be fast, reliable and have outstanding dependency management.

Besides being a kick-ass build system that doesn’t force XML down on you, it’s also the first full on Ruby project at Apache. Check it out.

scrAPI toolkit for Ruby

Tue, 11 Jul 2006 00:00:00 -0700

Scraping HTML with style. A toolkit for writing scrapers using CSS selectors and a scraping DSL.

assert_select plugin for Rails

Mon, 03 Jul 2006 00:00:00 -0700

Write functional tests using CSS selectors. (Now part of Rails)

co.mments

Sat, 04 Feb 2006 00:00:00 -0800

You post a comment on a blog. How do you know if anyone responded? You read an interesting post. How do you know when there are new comments?

Use co.mments to bookmark posts you want to follow. It tracks new comments for you, so you don’t miss out. You can see all the new comments from your tracking page, or subscribe to the feed.

WP Plugin - Advanced Wysiwyg

Mon, 26 Dec 2005 00:00:00 -0800

A plugin for WordPress 2.0 that adds more styling options to the WYSIWYG post editor.

The latest releases of WordPress provide the same functionality, but back then it was a killer. A few lines of code I hacked over coffee that ended up being the no.1 post on Labnotes.

Ruby - Reliable Messaging

Fri, 02 Dec 2005 00:00:00 -0800

Reliable messaging and persistent queues for building asynchronous applications in Ruby.