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PostgreSQL Performance Considerations

Know the Postgres index types such as multicolumn indexes and partial indexes, don’t over-index, use more joins, prefer INNER JOINs, understand the EXPLAIN output, and don’t try to optimize on your development machine.
Harold Giménez
January 7, 2011
Design Driven Development

The benefits of designing, then developing, rather than vice-versa.
Fred Yates
January 5, 2011
- Playbook
- Design
Use Deadweight in Your Integration Suite to Automatically Find Unused CSS Rules

How to find unused CSS rules in your Ruby test suite.
Jason Morrison
January 4, 2011
- Web
- Testing
- CSS
Ruby's Pessimistic Operator

Do you know Ruby’s pessimistic operator? It looks like this: ~> You’ve...
Dan Croak
December 29, 2010
- Web
- Ruby
- Open Source
Let it REST

You are building a boring blog application. A blog has many comments. Your...
Harold Giménez
December 22, 2010
- Web
- Good Code
- Rails
Yuletide Logs and MongoDB Capped Collections

This Christmas, maybe you’re thinking of the long trip back home through...
Nick Quaranto
December 21, 2010
- Web
Learning Japanese the Rubyist way

If you know Ruby then you already know some Japanese grammar.
Makoto Inoue
December 17, 2010
- Japanese
- Ruby
- New Bamboo
- Web
The best design books I read this year (that weren't about web design)

Besides being a great place to meet attractive single people, bookstores are...
Chad Mazzola
December 17, 2010
- Design
Writing matchers for shoulda

Shoulda provides assertions that allow developers to quickly test common...
Joe Ferris
December 16, 2010
- Web
- Ruby
- Testing
- Shoulda
Fishing For Trout In Our Suspenders

The means by which we update our templates.
Dan Croak
December 14, 2010
- Web
- Open Source
- Ruby
- Rails
- Suspenders
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