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Posted by Nate Murray - Mar 13, 20080

Bookmarks for March 13th

[from jashmenn] Rails Performance Link Fest - A nice set of links on Rails performance
[from jashmenn] Relevance, Inc. - Have you killed a design pattern today? - I'm still not convinced that design patterns are as evil as people are trying to make them out to be, but this is an interesting snippet of ruby code nonetheless.
[from jashmenn] Coding Horror: Maximizing The Value of Your Keystrokes - "in the middle of composing an email when I suddenly realize that there's no reason to silo this information in a private email exchange. I convert that email into a blog entry."
[from hislave] eEye Digital Security » Internet Security | Vulnerability Assessment | Computer Network Security | Vulnerability Management<BR> - antivirus/firewall

Posted by Nate Murray - Feb 21, 20080

[from jashmenn] Matt Blodgett’s Dev Blog: Corollaries to Blodgett’s First Law - Fantastic and short. Some excerpts:
* Great developers feel a moral obligation to eliminate tedium.
* Prefer unit tests over comments.
[from jashmenn] Exception Handling in Software Development - If doing things “The wrong way” is common practice on your team, it isn’t exceptional: It’s business as usual.
[from jashmenn] New Javascript Project Generator - I think standardization, organization and unit testing of javascript is going to be more and more important to all of us in the coming year.
[from hislave] Chapter 15. User Rights and Privileges - Samba windows PDC rights management
[from jashmenn] processing physics test - a really awesome example of the power of Processing
[from hislave] xen users manual - Looks like a great howto for Xen, although, it might be an older version
[from jashmenn] Giles Bowkett: Make ActionView::Helpers Available To Models And Controllers - Good use of bending the MVC pattern in Rails. Interesting that I just posted about doing something similar yesterday by rendering whole pages from a helper.
[from jashmenn] rails ec2 amazon appliance - I wonder who is using this and what kind of success they've had.

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