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Nick here from Coveralls -- we're actively monitoring this outage but unfortunately entirely reliant on our infrastructure provider to mitigate and bring us back online. Please fol…

For anyone interested in more contemporaenous context around Engelbart's Augmentation Research Center, the book "What the Dormouse Said" closely follows Engelbart's trials and trib…

Hi, Coveralls CTO here, the pass/fail status of any commit is shown as a green check / red x in the commit list and at the top of the repo details page as the "most recent commit".…

Here's a great Rails learning resource: https://www.railstutorial.org

Here at Coveralls.io we can't recommend Replicated enough. We were able to migrate our internally-developed, Github Enterprise style packaged VM delivery approach over to their sys…

This is one of the things about being a web developer and part-time DBA that keeps me up at night (sometimes literally all night). Around a month ago the source file table on Cover…

I gave a talk on delivering Rails apps behind corporate firewalls at Railsconf'2015[0], but have since migrated Coveralls Enterprise[1] from our home-baked, pre-packaged VM to Repl…

NPR.org itself has a great JSONP API that makes apps like the one in this article possible. Here's a site I put together that uses it and HTML5 audio for a very quick and minimal N…

Seeing his series of animal eyes right after makes it very hard not to anthropomorphize: http://www.behance.net/gallery/Animal-eyes/2123112

We built something very similar a couple years ago except all encryption/decryption is done broswer side, so no keys are ever sent through our server. Also, it uses actual tweets a…

Close! It'd still be great to be able pass to a file or directory path to have opened...

As we grew as a company, we found that we frequently had people working remotely on a project, sometimes from home, sometimes from another country. trying to keep track of what eve…

"ruby on rails" vs "django" has a much different take: http://www.google.com/insights/search/#cat=31&q=django%2... I always wondered why Python consistently ranks higher than Ruby …

For the rails kids, we have Bort ( http://github.com/fudgestudios/bort/tree/master )

Been playing around with the new AIR / EXT app, "Simple Tasks v2" http://extjs.com/blog/2008/02/24/tasks2/ pretty sexy stuff!

On a UX note, please add a afterFinish function to the slide animation that focuses the first form field. Thanks!

If your environment supports Ruby, I have lots of experience with a great library called Scrubyt... yickster at gmail

Coming from a Ruby background, Prototype will feel like a logical extension (enumerables and array helpers abound): http://prototypejs.org/api Knowing how to wield a library like P…