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CKEditor NonEditable Contents
Another very useful CKEditor feature, Non-Editable content areas.
ckeditor  smartsettle 
16 days ago
CKEditor Placeholder
Very useful for Smartsettle FFA editing feature
ckeditor 
16 days ago
OO JS in 15mins or Less
Properties, methods, and the elusive this oh my what’s a developer to do? Read this guide to writing elegant object oriented (OO) JavaScript.
JavaScript  OOP 
24 days ago
Why Postgres
Very often recently I find myself explaining why Postgres is so great. In an effort to save myself a bit of time in repeating this, I though it best to consolidate why Postgres is so great and dispel some of the historical arguments against it.
postgresql 
24 days ago
Mailboxes International - Blaine, WA
U.S. Address service for Canadians
28 days ago
User Authentication with Rails and Backbone.js
Backbone.js is a small framework for developing web apps. Since there are no guiding conventions it can sometimes be difficult for the beginner to understand what is going on. The early contributors have different ideas of how things should be done. The community is still young, but over time sources for beginners will grow.
backbone.js  rails  tutorial 
28 days ago
Rails Tutorial for Devise with CanCan and Twitter Bootstrap
Ruby on Rails tutorial showing how to create a Rails 3.2 application using Devise with CanCan and Twitter Bootstrap. Devise gives you ready-made authentication and user management. CanCan provides authorization which restricts what resources a given user is allowed to access.
rails  tutorial 
28 days ago
HSL Colour Scheming Tool
Nice tool for figuring out a colour scheme
"colour  picker" 
4 weeks ago
jQuery Core Style Guidelines
Good JavaScript style guide
JavaScript 
4 weeks ago
VIM Adventures
Leaning VIM while playing a gam
vim 
4 weeks ago
Squeak Smalltalk
Squeak is a modern, open source, full-featured implementation of the powerful Smalltalk programming language and environment.
smalltalk 
4 weeks ago
Amber Smalltalk
Amber is an implementation of the Smalltalk language that runs on top of the JavaScript runtime
smalltalk 
4 weeks ago
Pharo Open Source Smalltalk
Pharo is a clean, innovative, open-source Smalltalk-inspired environment
smalltalk 
4 weeks ago
Instagram Recollect
Download your Instagram photos
instagram 
4 weeks ago
Mid-Side (MS) Mic Recording Basics
If you've never heard of MS recording, or you've been afraid to try it, you're missing a powerful secret weapon in your recording arsenal.
recording 
7 weeks ago
Zero to Jekyll in 20 Minutes
Jekyll is a blog-aware static website generator
ruby  jekyll 
7 weeks ago
Building and implementing a Single Sign-On solution
Nice tutorial on building a single sign-on solution
tutorial 
7 weeks ago
Zero to Ruby Course
Free Ruby Course
ruby  teaching 
7 weeks ago
RVM Cheatsheet
A nice cheatsheet for RVM
rvm  ruby 
8 weeks ago
Ruby Styleguide
If you're visiting from the internets, feel free to learn from our style. This is a guide we use for our own ruby apps internally at GitHub.

Much of this was taken from https://github.com/bbatsov/ruby-style-guide. Please add to this guide if you find any particular patterns or styles that we've adopted internally. Submit a pull request to ask for feedback (if you're an employee).
ruby 
9 weeks ago
The Ruby Refresher (Draft)
This document aims to refresh one's memory of Ruby syntax, semantics, common operations, and standard libraries as quickly and efficiently as possible. The reader is expected to have some past experience with the Ruby language.
Ruby 
10 weeks ago
Backbone: Dealing with stateful applications
Building a Backbone application with state-related patterns.
backbone.js 
10 weeks ago
Backbone patterns
A documentation of the best practices to use when building a Backbone.js application
backbone.js 
10 weeks ago
Restify - A node.js module for REST web services
restify is a node.js module built specifically to enable you to build correct REST web services. It borrows heavily from express (intentionally) as that is more or less the de facto API for writing web applications on top of node.js.
node.js 
10 weeks ago
Detecting ‘Idle’ and ‘Away’ Timeouts in Javascript
A short Javascript program to improve detection of users idling or away from their keyboards, which should in turn improve how online users are detected.
JavaScript 
10 weeks ago
PHP Simple HTML DOM Parser
A HTML DOM parser written in PHP5+ let you manipulate HTML in a very easy way.
PHP 
10 weeks ago
Messenger.js - Node.js Communication Library
Insanely Fast Communication Library For Node.js Services. Messenger.js is a library that makes network communication via JSON dead simple and insanely fast!
node.js  JavaScript 
10 weeks ago
Rubeque - Ruby challenges
Rubeque challenges users to solve ruby koans or short problems using ruby code.
ruby 
10 weeks ago
String.js - JavaScript String Library
String.js is a lightweight (< 2k Gzipped) JavaScript library for the browser or for Node.js that provides extra String methods.
JavaScript 
10 weeks ago
Style Bootstrap
Create unique designs with Bootstrap v2
twitter-bootstrap 
10 weeks ago
Built with Boostrap
A list of sites that have been built with Twitter Bootstrap
twitter-bootstrap 
10 weeks ago
Dan Frakes’ Tips to Be More Productive With LaunchBar, Part 1
10 weeks ago
What is docrails?
This post explains everything you want to know about docrails. docrails is a branch of Ruby on Rails with public write access where anyone can push doc fixes.
rails  documentation 
11 weeks ago
Carsonified Toolkit
The Carsonified Tool Kit is a small gift from us to you. It contains stock photography, textures, icons and more. It's all free to use wherever you like, free of charge.
11 weeks ago
Let's Write a Gem: Part 1
Gems. Gotta love em. If you’re a Ruby developer then you already know that gems are simply fundamental to Ruby programming. Let’s write one. Right now.
ruby  gems 
11 weeks ago
Refinery CMS for Ruby on Rails
Refinery is an awesome Rails based CMS.
rails  cms 
11 weeks ago
Making Ruby Gems
While making a gem is really easy, there are a few additional concens that you should be aware of when you distribute your code as a gem. Here’s an example of building a simple Gem, with some notes on best practices along the way.
ruby  gems 
11 weeks ago
God - A Process Monitoring Framework in Ruby
God is an easy to configure, easy to extend monitoring framework written in Ruby.

Keeping your server processes and tasks running should be a simple part of your deployment process. God aims to be the simplest, most powerful monitoring application available.
Ruby  Rails 
12 weeks ago
Rubular
A Ruby regular expression editor and tester
ruby  regex 
12 weeks ago
Comparison of Interpreted Languages: PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby
A side-by-side reference sheet
programming  reference 
12 weeks ago
Free eBooks in epub and kindle formats
Collection of free ebooks
ebooks 
12 weeks ago
feibeck/application.ini - GitHub
Zend Framework application.ini "cheap sheet"
12 weeks ago
24 Extremely Useful Ruby Gems for Web Development
february 2012
Breathtaking NASA photos
Awesome collection of NASA photos
nasa  photos 
february 2012
Mixu's Node book
A book on using Node.js
node.js  JavaScript 
february 2012
MacSparky - Screencasts
Videos from David Sparks
videos 
february 2012
The Ultimate Steve Jobs Video Collection
Big collection of Steve Jobs videos
february 2012
Ruby Inside: Net::HTTP Cheat Sheet
Norwegian Rubyist August Lilleaas has been busy putting together a ton of examples of using the Net::HTTP Ruby library that comes with most Ruby distributions. I asked him if it'd be okay to put some of them directly on Ruby Inside for reference purposes and he said "No problem!"
Ruby  NetHTTP 
february 2012
Wonderflux - free, open source theme framework for Wordpress
Wonderflux is a powerful, free WordPress theme framework.
wordpress  theme 
february 2012
Lisp: Tears of Joy
First in a series of articles on Lisp.
lisp 
february 2012
Capistrano deployment with git failing periodically
If you’re using Capistrano to deploy from a git repository on OS X with the copy strategy and a copy cache you might be running into a problem where every now and then your deployments will end up not having any files in the deployed directory.
capistrano 
february 2012
How to Install mysql2 gem on OS X Lion
Good reference for when installing the mysql2 gem on OS X Lion
mysql2  gem 
february 2012
A Small Introduction to Nikola Tesla
february 2012
Podcasts for Hackers - Design Pepper
february 2012
Giving away the secrets of 99.3% email delivery
Post on how 37 signals handles all their email delivery
email 
february 2012
SQL Fiddle
Create and view SQL schema
sql 
february 2012
Testing Backbone.js Best Practices
Great article on the best practices of using Backbone.js when testing your JavaScript.
Backbone.js  JavaScript  testing 
january 2012
Deploying Zend Framework apps with Capistrano
Nice tutorial on using Capistrano to deploy Zend Framework apps
zend  zf  capistrano  deploy 
january 2012
Google's Python Class
Introduction to Python from Google Code University
python  tutorial  programming 
january 2012
Ruby Quiz
Ruby Quiz is a weekly programming challenge for Ruby programmers in the spirit of the Perl Quiz of the Week.
ruby 
january 2012
Create a Dev. Environment for ZF Projects
Great post on getting up and running with a professional development environment with Zend Framework
zend  capistrano  tutorial  zf 
january 2012
How to Create an Xcode 4.0-style Window-based Application in Xcode 4.2
Great post if you are using XCode 4.2 with Aaron Hillegass’s iOS Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide 2nd edition.
xcode  "os  X" 
january 2012
30 books everyone in software business should read (and why)
Excellent list of software industry books
books 
january 2012
Haskell web programming
A simple yesod tutorial. Yesod is an Haskell web framework. You shouldn’t need to know Haskell.
Haskell  Yesod 
january 2012
FitVids.JS - jQuery Plugin for Fluid width video
A lightweight, easy-to-use jQuery plugin for fluid width video embeds.
HTML5  jQuery  video  responsive 
january 2012
MediaElement.js - HTML5 Video/Audio Player
HTML5 audio and video players in pure HTML and CSS. Custom Flash and Silverlight players that mimic the HTML5 MediaElement API for older browsers
HTML5  video 
january 2012
MIME Types
Big list of file extensions and their associated MIME types
MIME  Types 
january 2012
Open Source IP Address to Country Database
GeoLite Country is similar to the GeoIP Country database, but is slightly less accurate
ProvideChat  geolocation 
january 2012
The IP Addresses database - IP Address Lookup
The IP Addresses database - IP Address Lookup
ProvideChat  geolocation 
january 2012
NotificationAPI - Desktop notifications for web apps
The Gears Notificatations APIs are responsible for managing notifications from web applications, and showing them on the user's desktop. Incoming notifications are not displayed when the user is considered not available for the notifications, i.e. the user is away, idle or in full-screen presentation mode.
JavaScript  ProvideChat 
january 2012
Desktop Notifications with WebKit
How to do desktop notifications in Chrome with WebKit
ProvideChat 
january 2012
Writing Quality Third-Party JS - Part 1: The First Rule
How to write quality third party JS, very good article
JavaScript 
january 2012
Badget - Super sexy iOS style badges for jQuery
Give your users a dose of familiarity with iOS style badges. Badger will easily add a beautiful badge to your element without the need for images. Modelled after the badges found on the iPhone and iPad, Badger is an incredibly attractive way to notify your users in a manner that they may already be familiar with.
jQuery  JavaScript 
january 2012
The Wirecutter
A list of the best gadgets
january 2012
Backbone Boilerplate
Backbone Boilerplate: a set of best practices and utilities for building Backbone.js applications
backbone.js  JavaScript 
january 2012
Git - the simple guide
Great, simple and concise guide to Git
git  tutorial 
january 2012
5 Ways To Kick Your Moleskine Notebook Up A Notch
Here are a few ways you can elevate your Moleskine from “just another notebook” to “I can’t live without this anymore.”
notebook  moleskine 
january 2012
Slim Framework for PHP 5
Slim is a PHP 5 Micro Framework

What began as a weekend project is now a simple yet powerful PHP 5 framework to create RESTful web applications. The Slim micro framework is everything you need and nothing you don't.
php  framework 
january 2012
30 Free Programming eBooks
A collection of 30+ programming book available for free
programming  books  free 
january 2012
NASA open source website
The site serves to surface existing projects, provide a forum for discussing projects and processes, and guide internal and external groups in open development, release, and contribution.
january 2012
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