More useful vim stuff.

A few short tips on find; one of the bash tools I use least, and should probably use more.

"Get an accountant, abstain from sex and similes, cut, rewrite, then cut and rewrite again – if all else fails, pray. Inspired by Elmore Leonard's 10 Rules of Writing, we asked authors for their personal dos and don'ts." Huge, two-part article (presumably from Saturday's Review) with a great deal of advice - some sensible, some common sense, some insightful, some entertaining - on writing. And: much of it applies to other creative disciplines, too.

"Better alternatives [to the RAILS_ constants] have existed for a while in Rails core (some since 2.1.0), and it’s about damn time you start using them properly. There’s also some other helpful methods on the Rails module we’ll explore in this post." That was handy.

Some good stuff here; the tips on the stash were new to me, and particularly handy.

"In this post I present the development model that I’ve introduced for all of my projects (both at work and private) about a year ago, and which has turned out to be very successful. I’ve been meaning to write about it for a while now, but I’ve never really found the time to do so thoroughly, until now. I won’t talk about any of the projects’ details, merely about the branching strategy and release management." It's a detailed strategy, but well thought-through; I'm certainly going to bear some of this in mind in future (and, indeed, the way the release branches are handled is familiar).

Comprehensive notes on Ben's talk from Ruby Manor - looks really, really good, and lots of things I should probably know. This is the kind of hacking I'm a big fan of.

"Here’s a complication of some common and useful time & date calculations and equations. Some, though very simple, are often misunderstood, leading to inefficient or incorrect implementations. There are many ways to solve such problems. I’ll present my favorites." These are, indeed, useful, and I've been using a few of them recently.

A good list of tips - lots of compiled stuff needs to be recompiled to x64, and this will be confusing. I am not upgrading quite yet.

"Accept that everything you say will be forgotten and ignored but write as if you and your words are immortal. Don’t just describe but justify – make sure the reader knows WHY the record exists whether the reasons are righteous or rascally. And always remember you’re not here to give consumer advice or help with people’s filing. You’re here to set people’s heads on fire."

"It may be a little hidden but Git actually comes with auto completion, you just have to set it up." I did not know that. Useful!

"In this article, let us review 15 practical examples of Linux find command that will be very useful to both newbies and experts." I've never really understood find, so these are very helpful.

God, Nethack is far, far, far too complicated. This only reminds me why I hated it so much (compared to Rogue, or even Larn).

"The original Keynote Kung-fu article describes how to set up and use Keynote for the first time, but once you’ve done a couple of presentations, you’re going to want more." Rands drops some Keynote science, and I learn at least one new thing.

A technique page from a working photographer with quite a few useful tips and technique articles linked off it.

How to get proper HD out of iMovie 09, which is something it makes surprisingly difficult.

I've got a way to go with Abel yet; I can't do FADCs at all, but the earlier stuff looks useful.

Some well-worn tales here, but also some good new ones, particularly when it comes to query-profiling and all forms of caching.

Kyle Gabler of 2D Boy gives the first Global Game Jam keynote. Seven minutes, seven tips, packed with goodness. He's not wrong.

A useful guide, although perhaps more detailed than you'd normally need. Still, clear instructions for handling reverting changes in git.

"This is by no means an exhaustive list, just a start. In each of these you’ll find other resources to help you dig deeper." Which, right now, is what I need. For a former front-end-dev, I'm a bit behind the curve.

Daily git tips. So far, they've all been rather handy, and given they're nice and short makes recommending this as a subscription easy.

Nothing out of the ordinary, but the take-on-release tip is a good one, and I'll be checking out Pano.

Very good - some good stuff around how the library works, but also lots of basics around how to optimise Javascript.

Amazingly, a few in here I didn't know - "move selection" and "delete only whitespace" for starters.

Simple, straightforward, pretty much correct.

A strong article from Joe on some guidelines, based on experience, for writing RSpec user stories.

"With a recent project, we really started utilizing extensions with named_scope which is very powerful and cleaned up our code considerably." Some really nice examples of using named_scope effectively.

A nice simple explanation of what using Git is really like.

Now that's what I call a UI. Nice idea!

This is actually a useful way of thinking about writing almost any kind of documentation; single line up to large document. Tools like Scrivener actually make some of the techniques described even easier than using a spreadsheet.

These are useful.

When they say "rules", they mean "of thumb", but they're still handy yardsticks to have.

A quick guide to how you unlock all the other bits of armor in Halo 3.

Many developers have learned to dread branches, either becasue of poor practices or weak tools, or both. With that here are twelve tips for working with branches in Subversion.

More sed & awk goodness from the caboo.se

Some good tips from Geoffrey Grosenbach

"I hate the term User Generated Content... I consider it a pejorative that reveals a lot about the person saying it. It makes members of your site feel like dutiful robots, crapping content that you convert into cash." Great article!

Lots of meaty/head-scratchy examples in here, but it's definitely a lot of best-practice for your money.

A few things in here I've not seen before; worth a bookmark.

The "delegate" method: "the User model says I don’t feel like dealing with the inbox method so why don’t you deal with it Action."

Some useful resources on basic film-making collated in one place on YouTube. The stuff on lighting is particularly good.

A nice trick for wrangling content_for, something I'm doing a lot of at work at the moment.

A series of fantastic, well-written, clear articles about some of Aperture's nuances. Definitely a piece of software on my "one day" list...

Yes - I definitely should be using this. Will refactor some code to take account of it at the weekend. A really elegant construction.