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I wrote something like this a while back: https://github.com/nakajima/sinatras-hat It's no longer maintained, but it was fun to see how many assumptions I could jam into one framew…

Using #find in a Rails project tends to be a mistake, especially when used on an ActiveRecord association proxy.

Looks like they'll be moving to Mountain View: http://allthingsd.com/20110721/frid-ge-acquired-by-google-to...

Diaspora is on GitHub. :)

As a heavy user of twilio (I work at groupme.com, we're entirely text message based, and built entirely on twilio), I'll say that every time we've broached the topic of internation…

It's definitely faster, though I don't have any actual numbers (sorry about that). Developer performance has increased significantly though, since we we're no longer stuck in "step…

I like it a lot. My one quibble is that a lot of the animations seem to take forever.

That's not true at all. You don't need a Mac.

Ironically, it doesn't work on an iPhone.

You could always use the database to track games between players.

I use Rack::Flash ( http://github.com/nakajima/rack-flash ) in a bunch of Sinatra apps.

I'd argue no, at least until you have as good an idea of what your needs are as GitHub did.

It seems to me that the patch wasn't for "GitHub, the EngineYard client", but instead, "GitHub, the Ruby community resource", just as they support JRuby, Rubinius, and Rails develo…

The way I look at it is actually less AOP than it is event-driven SOA. All of your domain-specific event handlers are sort of like services.

Traditional object oriented programming is certainly easily at first, especially to those with a strong background in it. Unfortunately, in every app I've ever worked on, there's a…