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Skipping Asset Compilation with Capistrano

~1 month ago by Ben on BenCurtis.com.
Capistrano has a handy task that runs rake assets:precompile for you when you are deploying your Rails 3.1 application. This gives you an easy way to get...

Amber.js (formerly SproutCore 2.0) is now Ember.js

~1 month ago by wycats on Katz Got Your Tongue?.
After we announced Amber.js last week, a number of people brought Amber Smalltalk, a Smalltalk implementation written in JavaScript, to our attention. After...

#306 ElasticSearch Part 1

~1 month ago by Ryan Bates on Railscasts.
Add full text searching using ElasticSearch and Tire. Here I will show the steps involved in adding this search to an existing application. This is the...

Facebook Key navigation for Chrome

~1 month ago by stJhimy on stJhimy - Playing around with codes!.
A day without coding is a completely wasted day. I was free last weekend then I decided to give Chrome Web Store Api a shot. I'm a VIM user and also a...

Packaging from a gemspec is not the Best Way

~1 month ago by drbrain on Segment7.
Or, why you should use Hoe (or a tool like it) to package your gems. A while back Yehuda wrote Using .gemspecs as Intended and asserted that packaging...

Shape Mesh Progress

~1 month ago by John Croisant on blog.jacius.info.
Yesterday, I completed the code to generate triangle and circle meshes: The triangle looks like it’s too small, but it fits perfectly in the circle...

Announcing Amber.js

~1 month ago by wycats on Katz Got Your Tongue?.
A little over a year ago, I got my first serious glimpse at SproutCore, the JavaScript framework Apple used to build MobileMe (now iCloud). At the time...

Testing associations with factory girl

~1 month ago by Siva Gollapalli on Josh Software - Where Programming is an Art!.
Associations are very important when we are working with relational databases. Writing relations in models is easy but when it comes testing them, it is...

Fixing JQuery UI 1.7.3 Draggable bug

~1 month ago by stJhimy on stJhimy - Playing around with codes!.
Well, I was playing with a project this week and I was kind of stuck on an old JQuery ui version. Turns out dragging images around, using Chrome, was, at...

Adventures with the OpenGL shader pipeline

~1 month ago by John Croisant on blog.jacius.info.
For the past several weeks, I’ve been learning “modern” OpenGL programming practices, by which I mean using a GLSL shader pipeline with...