threedaymonk + reevoo-developer   50

The Decline and Fall of Agile
‘Without continuous, incremental design, Scrum teams quickly dig themselves a gigantic hole of technical debt.’
programming  agile  scrum  xp  reevoo-developer 
november 2008 by threedaymonk
Why use a VARCHAR when you can use TEXT?
Arbitrary constraints are daft (especially with multi-byte encodings).
database  mysql  postgresql  reevoo-developer 
november 2008 by threedaymonk
CSSTidy
‘CSSTidy is an opensource CSS parser and optimiser.’
webdev  css  reevoo-developer 
october 2008 by threedaymonk
Rules of Productivity
The effects of overtime and working conditions on programmer productivity.
programming  work  business  reevoo-developer 
september 2008 by threedaymonk
Infobright
Open source data warehouse designed for analytics.
reevoo-developer  datawarehouse  opensource  data 
september 2008 by threedaymonk
Reducing coupling through unit tests
A significant benefit of TDD that’s sometimes overlooked.
programming  testing  reevoo-developer 
may 2008 by threedaymonk
Firefox 3 uses fsync excessively
A cautionary tale about excessive attachment to data integrity.
firefox  bug  linux  reevoo-developer 
may 2008 by threedaymonk
BBC Sound Index
Crawls major music-related sites, find out what people are listening to and talking about, and constructs a list of the hottest bands and tracks.
bbc  music  reevoo-developer 
may 2008 by threedaymonk
Multi-Pointer X Going Mainline
Could be very interesting for pair programming.
unix  linux  gui  reevoo-developer 
may 2008 by threedaymonk
rails100 wiki
I've added us. We're in a respectable position.
reevoo  reevoo-developer  ruby  rails 
may 2008 by threedaymonk
Piwik
Open source Google analytics-alike. Sounds useful.
webdev  analytics  reevoo-developer 
april 2008 by threedaymonk
Hey Rails developers: I bet...
A handy bookmarklet to turn a remote URL into a local one.
webdev  bookmarklets  reevoo-developer 
april 2008 by threedaymonk
Javascript: Introducing Using (.js)
Lazily load JavaScript source files as needed. Can be used to simplify templates.
webdev  javascript  reevoo-developer 
april 2008 by threedaymonk
When Designers Get Too Clever
Web design anti-patterns and how to avoid them.
webdev  design  usability  reevoo-developer 
march 2008 by threedaymonk
Workplace Experiments
37 Signals are experimenting with three-day-weeks.
reevoo-developer  work  business 
march 2008 by threedaymonk
PottyMouth
Text-to-XHTML converter designed for use by non-technical users who neither know nor care about markup.
python  html  webdev  markup  reevoo-developer 
january 2008 by threedaymonk
Protecting custom SQL in Rails from SQL injections
How to use placeholders in full-custom SQL. I've griped about the absence of this for ages.
ruby  rails  activerecord  sql  webdev  security  reevoo-developer 
january 2008 by threedaymonk
thrudb
‘Thrudb is a set of simple services built on top of Facebook’s Thrift framework that provides indexing and document storage services for building and scaling websites.’
thrift  database  queue  search  reevoo-developer 
january 2008 by threedaymonk
Varnish
High performance reverse proxy.
reevoo-developer  proxy  webdev 
december 2007 by threedaymonk
HowTo: CSS Refresh for Mozilla Firefox
Just reload CSS without reloading the whole page. Makes CSS tweaking much quicker and less frustrating.
webdev  css  bookmarklets  firefox  reevoo-developer 
november 2007 by threedaymonk
DataMapper
Looks like a nicer alternative to ActiveRecord for Ruby ORM.
database  orm  ruby  sql  reevoo-developer 
november 2007 by threedaymonk
WebRunner
Run a website as a separate application using WebRunner.
xul  webdev  gecko  reevoo-developer 
october 2007 by threedaymonk
DeepTest
Save time by running Ruby tests in parallel.
ruby  reevoo-developer  testing 
october 2007 by threedaymonk
Practical Fascism
Using XSLT, RelaxNG, jslint etc. to enforce good practice. We should do this.
webdev  html  javascript  css  reevoo-developer 
october 2007 by threedaymonk

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