"After a year using RSpec, I’m happy to share “(My) RSpec Best Practices and Tips”. Let’s make your specs easier to maintain, less verbose, more structured and covering more cases!"

"The YouTube Nonprofit Program provides for extra benefits like branding capabilities, increased uploading capacity, and call-to-action overlays. Non-profits can use the call-to-action feature to drive sign-ups, donations, website traffic, and any other response in which users take action. This feature was effectively used by the World Food Programme to raise $36,000 on World Food Day with this video.…"

"Deploying to Heroku with git push is awesome. I’m running a couple of different environments, though, and there’s extra stuff that I want to do when I deploy. Rake to the rescue!"

"This document is a collection of Unix/Linux/BSD commands and tasks which are useful for IT work or for advanced users. This is a practical guide with concise explanations, however the reader is supposed to know what s/he is doing.

Unix Toolbox revision 14.1
The latest version of this document can be found at http://cb.vu/unixtoolbox.xhtml. Replace .xhtml on the link with .pdf for the PDF version and with .book.pdf for the booklet version. On a duplex printer the booklet will create a small book ready to bind. This XHTML page can be converted into a nice PDF document with a CSS3 compliant application (see the script example). See also the about page."

"Here is a trick that saves me a lot of typing and frustration. If you are using git, you are probably using its branches feature. If this is true, you are already aware that you need to specify every time the correct branch with every pull and push:"

"When you call load or require a new file, Ruby searches through the files in its load path. This allows you to require files relative to the load path without specifying the files full system path."

"In this tutorial one of our senior members from our forums Japaslavian (Jeff Masamori over at Flickr) shares a simple photoshop technique for enhancing contrast."

"I think you’ll agree that this second sample induces the kind of familiar sugar shock that Ruby coders know and love. It accomplishes the same goals and actually wraps the lower level code rather than replacing it. But is there some sort of dark magic behind this? Let’s peek behind the curtain:..."

"While it’s fantastic to be able to instantly download an album from iTunes or Amazon.com to your iPod, many classic recordings will never make the jump to a digital store. If your music collection stretches back several decades, odds are you have at least a few beloved analog titles on cassette or vinyl. They need not languish unloved and unheard simply because they’re in an old format. With just a few steps, very little money, and a reasonable amount of time, you can bring those classic recordings into the digital era."