Another week, another sweep.
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Garbage Collection is Why Ruby on Rails is Slow: Patches to Improve Performance 5x; Memory Profiling
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SwitchPipe. Supposably an easy way to deploy web applications written in Rails, Camping, Ramaze, Merb and what have you.
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Tapping Method Chains with Ruby 1.9. A nice gem in Ruby 1.9.
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Static typing considered harmful. While the post itself is spot on, it was more the quote from Stuart Halloway that caught my eye: “In 5 years, we’ll view compilation as the weakest form of unit testing.” I have nothing to add.
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21 Merb Links, Tutorials and Other Resources. Kudos to Peter Cooper for putting these lists together.
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Heroku. An in-browser Rails environment. Code, collaborate, click deploy, and see your app running on EC2, all from your browser. Looking forward to giving it a go.
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FancyZoom. My word, that is smooth JavaScript image zooming, Panic style.