quicklywilliam

A Proposal to improve App Store Approvals

Dear Apple,

As developers on the Mac and iOS platforms, we think its time to reflect on Apple's App Store review policies.

There are some wonderful things about the App Stores' protection mechanisms. We believe Apple's policy of not allowing every App on the App Stores, while occasionally problematic, acts overall in the interest of users and high quality software. We're happy that Apple has the ability to delist and remove software that violates user privacy, contains egregious security issues, or otherwise puts users and their data at risk.

That said, we believe that the current policy of manually reviewing App updates places an undue burden on developers, and ultimately harms user experience. It should be reformed.

Reviewing App Updates Harms Developers and Users

pixeltrix

When should you use DateTime and when should you use Time?

It's a common misconception that [William Shakespeare][1] and [Miguel de Cervantes][2] died on the same day in history - so much so that UNESCO named April 23 as [World Book Day because of this fact][3]. However because England hadn't yet adopted [Gregorian Calendar Reform][4] (and wouldn't until [1752][5]) their deaths are actually 10 days apart. Since Ruby's Time class implements a [proleptic Gregorian calendar][6] and has no concept of calendar reform then there's no way to express this. This is where DateTime steps in:

>> shakespeare = DateTime.iso8601('1616-04-23', Date::ENGLAND)
=> Tue, 23 Apr 1616 00:00:00 +0000
>> cervantes = DateTime.iso8601('1616-04-23', Date::ITALY)
=> Sat, 23 Apr 1616 00:00:00 +0000

samselikoff

This post is also on my blog, since Gist doesn't support @ notifications.

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Components are taking center stage in Ember 2.0. Here are some things you can do today to make the transition as smooth as possible:

• Use Ember CLI
• In general, replace views + controllers with components
• Only use controllers at the top-level for receiving data from the route, and use Ember.Controller instead of Ember.ArrayController or Ember.ObjectController
• Fetch data in your route, and set it as normal properties on your top-level controller. Export an Ember.Controller, otherwise a proxy will be generated. You can use Ember.RSVP.hash to simulate setting normal props on your controller.

gbuesing

UPDATE a fork of this gist has been used as a starting point for a community-maintained "awesome" list: machine-learning-with-ruby Please look here for the most up-to-date info!

Resources for Machine Learning in Ruby

Gems

• liblinear-ruby: Ruby interface to LIBLINEAR using SWIG

swrobel

This setup will allow you to precompile assets locally and keep them separated depending on the environment. To precompile assets locally run RAILS_ENV=production COMPILE_ASSETS=1 rake assets:precompile. Using an ENV var like this removes the need for having therubyracer or some other javascript engine on your server instances since they aren't actually running the precompilation task.

Tho85

Build your own private, encrypted, open-source Dropbox-esque sync folder

Prerequisites:

• One or more clients running a UNIX-like OS. Examples are given for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, although all software components are available for other platforms as well (e.g. OS X). YMMV
• A cheap Ubuntu 12.04 VPS with storage. I recommend Backupsy, they offer 250GB storage for $5/month. Ask Google for coupon codes.

Software components used:

• Unison for file synchronization
• EncFS for folder encryption

pmarreck

#!/usr/bin/env ruby

# Teststack: A way to preload your Rails app stack for your iterative test running
# Based on ideas from Jesse Storimer here:
# http://www.jstorimer.com/blogs/workingwithcode/8136295-screencast-faster-rails-test-runs-with-unix
# https://gist.github.com/jstorimer/5862436
# Usage: Run this file without args to run the server; run it with test file args to connect to the server and run tests

require 'socket'

karmi

# An example of elasticsearch & Tire setup for ActiveRecord associations.
#
# A `Book has_many :chapters` scenario, with mapping and JSON serialization
# for indexing associated models.
#
# Demonstrates three important caveats as of now:
#
# 1. You you have to use `touch: true` in the `belongs_to` declaration,
#    to automatically notify the parent model about the update.
#

erikh

#!/usr/bin/env sh

##
# This is script with usefull tips taken from:
#   https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles/blob/master/.osx
#
# install it:
#   curl -sL https://raw.github.com/gist/2108403/hack.sh | sh
#

cblunt

# ...

gem 'carrierwave'
gem 'fog', '~> 1.0.0' # Need to specify version, as carrierwave references older (0.9.0) which doesn't allow configuration of Rackspace UK Auth URL