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5 Things you ought to know when designing metro screens.
The post gives five practical metro UI guidelines: use a tight color palette, keep typography consistent, balance chrome text with content text, minimize elements but add some life, and mine fantasy UI for inspiration.
How To Use Mina to Deploy a Ruby on Rails Application
The page explains how to install Mina, configure deploy.rb, set SSH and repository options, and run setup and deploy tasks for a Rails app using Mina.
Faster web application deployments using Mina instead of Capistrano
The page compares Capistrano and Mina for Rails deployments and argues that Mina is much faster because it runs the deployment as one Bash script over a single SSH session.
Agile Is Dead (Long Live Agility)
Dave Thomas argues that “agile” has been emptied out by consulting, marketing, and misuse as a noun, and that software teams should return to the manifesto’s values as practical agility.
No Mundo da Mutação
O texto lê o pensamento chinês a partir do Ijing: o mundo muda continuamente, e a filosofia busca ajustar-se a ciclos, oposições complementares, ritmo e harmonia, sem fixar uma essência.
How to start your first podcast - equipment, editing, publishing and more
Scott Hanselman outlines podcasting basics: pick workable equipment, record in better quality files, edit with layered tracks, and publish through a host, feed, and directories.
Eleven Years of MJLO Kung Fu Family!
The post links Si Fu Julio Camacho’s 2003 qualification and the growth of the Moy Jo Lei Ou family to earlier moments in his training, arguing that his path was built by remembering the purity of the beginning.
Capybara Using Selenium, With RSpec, in the Vagrant (Remotely)
The post shows how to run Capybara JavaScript specs from a Vagrant box through Selenium Server on the host machine, so RSpec can use the real browser instead of a local Firefox inside Vagrant.
10 fatos interessantes que podem mudar completamente a sua percepção do tempo
Sequência de dez montagens, cada uma com duas fotos e uma legenda, que comparam datas históricas para mostrar coincidências de cronologia.
Mulher Maravilha, a primeira super-heroína dos quadrinhos... #sqn
O texto contesta a ideia de que a Mulher Maravilha seja a primeira super-heroína e propõe uma cronologia em que outras personagens femininas vieram antes, até chegar a Shiera Sanders como a primeira a reunir uniforme, identidade secreta e poderes.
What's Relevant in the Ruby Universe?
Omniref describes a rebuilt Ruby indexing pipeline that links every gem’s code and documentation, then uses that graph to improve cross references, symbol resolution, and search quality.
WebSockets in Ruby
The post describes moving a geocoding service in Ruby from HTTP to WebSockets, compares Ruby WebSocket options, and settles on webmachine-ruby with Celluloid actors for per-client CPU-heavy work.
Rumors of Ruby’s Demise
The post argues that Ruby is still a strong choice because developer joy and productivity matter, and that concurrency hype often reflects problems faced by only a small slice of teams.
Ruby Gotchas that will come back to haunt you
The page lists Ruby pitfalls that can change program behavior or hide bugs, from operator precedence and equality to `super`, exceptions, scope, bang methods, assignment return values, and class-method privacy.
Reading Rails - The Adapter Pattern
The article surveys how Rails uses the Adapter Pattern to hide differences between JSON libraries, databases, and time classes, keeping a uniform API while still handling library-specific details.
Are You Too Old to Land a New IT Job?
The piece argues that age is not the main barrier in IT hiring. What matters is showing accomplishments, staying current on technology, and proving adaptability and business value.
Microsoft creating ‘open source’ framework for gaming, formed a new team for iOS, Windows Phone and Android
Microsoft is forming a new gaming team around an open source, lightweight, extensible framework meant to run on Windows Store, Windows Phone, iOS and Android, with the aim of winning back game developers.
The enterprise technologies to watch in 2014
The article argues that enterprises need to track a set of emerging and maturing technologies in 2014, from 3D printing and IoT to cloud, open APIs, big data, social business, and the collaborative economy.
Microsoft makes it official: We're all in with Android
Microsoft is treating Android as part of its mobile strategy by backing dual-boot phones, Android devices with Windows Phone, and Nokia’s low-cost Windroid line to keep users inside Microsoft services.
Project Ara: Inside Google’s Bold Gambit to Make Smartphones Modular
TIME describes Project Ara as Google’s effort to turn phones into modular platforms, with swappable hardware, 3D-printed parts, and a low-cost model aimed at wider access.
In 2020, Everything Will Be a Game
The page says gamification will spread into daily life by 2020, from smartphones and healthcare to business and data gathering, and that it can raise engagement and productivity.
Variáveis de classe e de instância de classe em Ruby
O texto explica a diferença entre variáveis de classe e variáveis de instância de classe em Ruby. Em herança, a primeira é compartilhada na hierarquia; a segunda fica associada a cada classe.
GTD in 15 minutes – A Pragmatic Guide to Getting Things Done
Explains GTD as a system for capturing, processing, and reviewing tasks so you can trust it, reduce mental clutter, and turn vague or concrete inputs into clear next actions and project lists.
Toodledo: How to use access Toodledo via email
Explains how to add and retrieve Toodledo tasks by email using symbols for priority, dates, folders, contexts, tags, reminders, location, and task bodies, with replies sent to the registered account.
Por que o Toodledo é a ferramenta perfeita para o GTD
A autora explica por que considera o Toodledo o melhor aplicativo para GTD, destacando interface, filtros, estatísticas, planejador, integração com calendário e recursos de customização.
Considerações a respeito do GTD, Evernote e Toodledo
A autora compara Google Calendar, Toodledo e Evernote e conclui que não existe ferramenta perfeita. Ela prefere centralizar tudo no Evernote para simplificar o GTD e evitar depender de três sistemas.
Open Letter to Master Julio Camacho
A personal tribute to Master Julio Camacho that recalls hardship, training, and loyalty. The writer says Camacho shaped his life through commitment, attention, and example.
AngularJS Headless End to End Testing With Protractor and Selenium
The page explains end to end testing for AngularJS, compares it with unit testing, and outlines a Selenium-based headless setup on Ubuntu using Protractor, Xvfb, Chrome, Firefox, and PhantomJS.
Formatando datas no Ruby on Rails
Mostra três jeitos de exibir um campo datetime no Rails: helper, after_find no modelo e, de forma mais flexível, um formato customizado em Time::DATE_FORMATS usado com to_s.
New Interview Questions for Senior Software Engineers
Scott Hanselman compiles senior-level interview questions centered on software design, trade-offs, concurrency, testing, maintainability, and problem solving, while arguing that conversation and judgment matter more than trivia.
15 Windows Phone 8 podcatchers compared and reviewed (part 1)
The article compares nine Windows Phone 8 podcatchers against import, search, background downloading, playback resume, cleanup, dark theme support, and skip controls, with Podcast Lounge and BringCast coming out strongest.
Quantos escravos trabalham pra você?
O texto liga o consumo de roupas ao trabalho escravo no Brasil e diz que a desconexão entre compra e origem da mercadoria sustenta essa cadeia, junto com o lucro e a impunidade.
Chinese New Year in Moy Jo Lei Ou Family
The post links Chinese New Year customs to Mourning and red clothing, then describes a family celebration, including dragon and lion dances, firecrackers, food, and thanks to Patricia for hosting.
Perfil – Bertrand Russel | Bule Voador
O texto resume a trajetória de Bertrand Russell como filósofo, lógico, ativista e Nobel de Literatura, destacando sua defesa do pensamento livre, o pacifismo, o movimento antinuclear e um código liberal de conduta.
14 coisas para ser em 2014
O post reúne 14 desejos para o ano, com foco em comer melhor, gastar menos, criar mais, ler mais, viver perto da natureza e blogar com mais frequência.
Coffee boosts memory retention, study says
Johns Hopkins researchers say 200 milligrams of caffeine improved pattern separation, helping people distinguish similar items in a memory test a day later. The study gave caffeine after learning to isolate memory effects.
6 Life Habits That Programming Could Teach You Today
The article argues that programming habits map onto daily life: plan with flow charts, organize things by place, reuse what works, document decisions, plan escape routes, and clean up after yourself.
Morre soldado que só acreditou no fim da 2ª guerra depois de 30 anos
Hiroo Onoda, oficial japonês que permaneceu escondido nas Filipinas após a rendição do Japão, só entregou as armas em 1974, depois de receber ordem direta do antigo comandante.
Simple Pagination in Ember ArrayControllers
The post builds pagination for an Ember ArrayController by adding page and perPage properties, deriving paginatedContent and pages, then moving the logic into a reusable mixin and a pagination-links component.
Ember pagination full example
The post shows a full Ember.js RC1 pagination setup using a custom mixin, an ArrayController, a pagination view, routes for page selection, and Handlebars templates to render prev, next, and page links.