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gist: 566725 - How to use Rails 3.0’s new notification system to inject custom log events- GitHub How to extend the logging / instrumentation of Rails 3 (tags: notification rails3 logging)

xkcd: Online Communities 2 The follow up to the online communities map that hangs on our office wall How Google works [Infographic] | The Wall Blog Great infographic on how Google finds, indexes and displays search results (tags: google)

Lunch over IP: Reboot8: How to be a Renaissance man, and help Google eat itself Notes on the famous Ben Hammersley Reboot 8 talk about Renaissance man (tags: reboot8 renaissance) You’re cuking it right Hints & tipps on using Cucumber (tags: testing cucumber howto) A few git tips you didn’t know about Advanced git tips (tags: tips git) Vimcasts More screencasts (tags: vim video) An Introduction to Vim Macros - video tutorials for introduction, python, vim, screencasts, blog, tutorials, installing, install, select, features ...

Manifesto for Half-Arsed Agile Software Development Sounds (at least) partially true (tags: agile humor enterprise) Fast user switching with Devise how to use devise and rails3 concerns to implement a “sign-in as” functionality (tags: Devise rails3)

I’m in the middle of starting a (potentially) huge project with a couple of friends. Having just finished (well, technically, almost finished) a large enterprise Rails project, I am really looking forward to working in a small agile team, on an extremely tight deadline, but doing stuff that is relevant and interesting. The enterprise project was an interesting experience, partly because of the technology stack we had to use: Rails on JRuby, developing on Windows machines (which is so painful, you just want to give up) and deploying on Websphere (bad) on zLinux (think IBM big iron) with a host DB/2 database. ...

JRuby: Rails console direkt aus einer gewarbleten .war-Datei heraus starten | LessCode (tags: jruby ruby console)