Warren Seen

• Rails Envy: Ruby on Rails Rake Tutorial (aka. How rake turned me into an alchoholic)
  “Did you realize that you can write your own tasks or create your own library of useful Rake files?” – why yes, yes I did. Interesting nonetheless.
  (tags: rake rails ruby programming)

• Dr Nic » 8 steps for fixing other people’s code
  Fairly obvious to anyone who’s been using open source software for any length of time, but an excellent writeup. I feel like I should use the word codify here…
  (tags: programming)
• Jay Fields Thoughts: Testing: Replace Mock with Stub
  Understanding mocks and stubs and where they fit in with testing takes a little bit of effort, but once it clicks you really start seeing the benefit in doing the least testing you can.
  (tags: ruby testing mock stub programming)

• Blaine Cook on Scaling Twitter – Google Video
  Blaine gave this talk on how they scaled Twitter. Twitter is probably the largest ruby on rails application in production today, so it was filled with lots of great insights including many not so obvious tips.
  (tags: rails scaling twitter)

• Scaling Twitter » SlideShare
  Scaling Twitter – Slides for a talk presented at the SDForum Silicon Valley Ruby Conference 2007 on Twitter’s challenges scaling Rails.
  — but I want audio/video to go with this!
  (tags: development programming rails ruby scaling)

• Scruby : A Ruby shell for packet sending and sniffing
  Scruby (not to be confused with the ScRUBYt! site scraping tool) is a Ruby application that works on UNIX-related operating systems and provides a shell where you can perform packet creation, sending and sniffing functions in a Ruby-esque fashion.
  (tags: ruby networking)
• stompserver’s stompserver-0.9.1 Documentation
  Don‘t want to install a JVM, but still want to use messaging?
  (tags: ruby messaging stomp)
• Stomp – Home
  The Stomp project is the Streaming Text Orientated Messaging Protocol site (or the Protocol Briefly Known as TTMP and Represented by the symbol :ttmp). Stomp provides an interoperable wire format so that any of the available Stomp Clients can communicate
  (tags: messaging ruby jms programming stomp)
• activemessaging – Google Code
  ActiveMessaging is a messaging framework for Ruby and Ruby on Rails ActiveMessaging is an attempt to bring the simplicity and elegance of Rails development to the world of messaging. Messaging, (or event-driven architecture) is widely used for enterprise
  (tags: messaging ruby rails development activemq stomp)

• InfoQ: Ruby on Rails case study: ChangingThePresent.org
  The founder considered Java for scalability and stability, but the early bids came back and the project looked too expensive and complex. We settled on Ruby on Rails because it gave us the best combination of great productivity, a clean programming model,
  (tags: development programming rails ruby scaling)

• igvita.com » Blog Archive » Dynamic Stat Graphs in Rails
  a guide with some neat Ruby tricks to create dynamic stat graphs (sample above) with the help of Gruff library
  (tags: Graphs programming rails ruby reference gruff)
• Prototype Javascript Library easing the development of dynamic web applications
  Prototype is a JavaScript Framework that aims to ease development of dynamic web applications.
  (tags: ajax javascript programming rails web2.0 prototype)
• SimpleRip: Ripping/Encoding DVDs to XviD with Mencoder :: f0rked.com
  With this document, you can generate the necessary commands to encode a movie directly from a DVD title to an XviD file using mencoder, without the need for other applications or helper scripts.
  (tags: linux dvd ripping xvid mplayer mencoder video)
• the { buckblogs :here }: Named, explicit routes
  Names routes are hotsauce. We are all forever indebted to Marcel Molina, Jr. and his gift for elegant API’s.
  (tags: programming rails ruby routes)

Err, yeah. I remember, once upon a time, I used to have time to blog. That was before we built this:

Oh, and before he was born:

So despite the fact that I’m lying on the couch there, I’ve been far from idle.

My yard still looks like this:

so it’s not as though i don’t have enough to do! However, I *am* committing to finishing up, in the very near future, the Ruby Web Spider I began to write about some 5-6 months ago.

Consider this, a dusting off of the cobwebs kinda post…