Notes en Vrac

The calculus of Caffeine consumption must read for anyone who wants to drink caffeine^Wcoffee efficiently. [via]

Vim Follow-up. Mentions lots of cool Vim plugins.

The Unremembered on the Urf, a webcomic.

Things Caches Do. Ryan Tomayko explains how gateway caches work, with beautiful diagrams.

Ruby community is coming up with new frameworks almost every week, but in midst of that, Rack isn’t getting enough attention. Attention that it deserves.

Ruby on Rack #1 – Hello Rack!

rdfQuery: Progressive Enhancement with RDFa rdfQuery is a set of plugins for jQuery that support RDFa parsing, querying and generation.

Polyglot (computing) on Wikipedia). Some of the examples blew my mind.

The True Path. How did I miss that?

Reconstructing the structure of the world-wide music scene with last.fm. A cool way to visualize what kind of music you listen to.

My Couch or Yours? Shareable Apps Are The Future. a Twitter client built with CouchDB.

A Quote on Testing Tools

<foca> rspec internals aren’t what’s important of rspec, the important thing about rspec is how the syntax makes you focus on other things when you test. If with context + matchy you get the same syntax with other internals, then yay! enjoy! Who gives a flying fuck if you’re running rspec or test/unit or minitest or whatever? :)

<foca> if you’re tests are good, run fast, and give you a safety net, then what’s running them isn’t important

<foca> but people usually don’t seem to get that and like to get into a holy war

<foca> meh, stop whining and get back to work, bitches :)

<foca> and I’m gonna go get lunch because a) it’s almost 5pm and b) I’m talking by myself here

<foca> =P

Nicolás Sanguinetti on #sinatra

acts_like_git. A Rails plugin that uses git to version ActiveRecord fields

Ruby Mendicant Post-Mortem

Blake Mizerany — the author of Sinatra — started a blog.

Rails meets Sinatra.

Visitors, a “very fast web log analyzer”. Why does it kicks AWStats and friends’ ass? visitor access.log > report.html done!

Pimp up the output of Visitors with Visitors SVG.

mails — file based mail reader [via]

A platform has three to four million lines of code," he said. “When Android has that many lines, we’ll make an assessment. Until them it’s just an announcement.” Nokia’s Niklas Savander talks Internet services and software [via]

The Philosopher’s Song