dhh

Basecamp was under network attack

The attack detailed below has stopped (for the time being) and almost all network access for almost all customers have been restored. We're keeping this post and the timeline intact for posterity. Unless the attack resumes, we'll post a complete postmortem within 48 hours (so before Wednesday, March 26 at 11:00am central time).

Criminals have laid siege to our networks using what's called a distributed denial-of-service attack (DDoS) starting at 8:46 central time, March 24 2014. The goal is to make Basecamp, and the rest of our services, unavailable by flooding the network with bogus requests, so nothing legitimate can come through. This attack was launched together with a blackmail attempt that sought to have us pay to avoid this assault.

Note that this attack targets the network link between our servers and the internet. All the data is safe and sound, but nobody is able to get to it as long as the attack is being successfully executed. This is like a bunch of people

jakeonrails

data:text/html, <style type="text/css">#e{position:absolute;top:0;right:0;bottom:0;left:0;}</style><div id="e"></div><script src="http://d1n0x3qji82z53.cloudfront.net/src-min-noconflict/ace.js" type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"></script><script>var e=ace.edit("e");e.setTheme("ace/theme/monokai");e.getSession().setMode("ace/mode/ruby");</script>

nhance

Model.new.foo

stomita

#!/bin/bash

COMPILE_JOBS=1

PREFIX="/app/vendor/phantomjs"
QT_CFG="-I$PREFIX/include -L$PREFIX/lib"

until [ -z "$1" ]; do
    case $1 in
        "--qt-config")

plexus

# Please fork if you can improve this. (e.g. Windows support)
#
# Ruby 1.9 doesn't contain any SSL root certificates, neither does it read the ones
# installed with your operating system. This results in an error like
#
# SSL_connect returned=1 errno=0 state=SSLv3 read server certificate B: certificate verify failed
#
# This solution is based on http://martinottenwaelter.fr/2010/12/ruby19-and-the-ssl-error/
# but can be used to monkey patch 3rd party tools, e.g. Github's 'gist' command. 
#

jlong

var parser = document.createElement('a');
parser.href = "http://example.com:3000/pathname/?search=test#hash";

parser.protocol; // => "http:"
parser.hostname; // => "example.com"
parser.port;     // => "3000"
parser.pathname; // => "/pathname/"
parser.search;   // => "?search=test"
parser.hash;     // => "#hash"
parser.host;     // => "example.com:3000"

ajburton

Friday, 23 March

10:00

Give Me a Lever: The Story of Inheritance

Sandi Metz :: @sandimetz
http://lever-rubynation.heroku.com/assets/fallback/index.html

Node.js Explained

Jeff Kunkle :: @kunklejr
http://kunklejr.github.com/nodejs-explained-pres

dhh

class PostsController < ActionController::Base
  def create
    Post.create(post_params)
  end
  
  def update
    Post.find(params[:id]).update_attributes!(post_params)
  end

  private

burke

ruby-1.9.3-p327 cumulative performance patch for rbenv

This installs a patched ruby 1.9.3-p327 with various performance improvements and a backported COW-friendly GC, all courtesy of funny-falcon.

Requirements

• rbenv
• ruby-build

You will also need a C Compiler. If you're on Linux, you probably already have one or know how to install one. On OS X, you should install XCode, and brew install autoconf using homebrew.

lucasfais

Sublime Text 2 – Useful Shortcuts (Mac OS X)

General

⌘T	go to file
⌘⌃P	go to project
⌘R	go to methods
⌃G	go to line
⌘KB	toggle side bar
⌘⇧P	command prompt