Campfire Stories: March 12-16
I missed a week while traveling, but here’s another edition of Campfire Stories, pulled from our Campfire rooms last week.
Monday, March 12
MongoDB Stockholm
Conference about MongoDB in Stockholm, April 5th.
http://www.10gen.com/events/mongodb-stockholm
Tuesday, March 13
Elabs team on Coderwall
http://coderwall.com/teams/4f271951973bf00004000661
Hating on IE6
Coderwall encourages users to update their profiles by showing you “embarrasing” defaults.
http://coderwall.com/blog/2012-02-23-hating-on-IE6
Nordic Ruby speakers
We announced the speakers for Nordic Ruby, the Ruby conference that we organise every year. We have an amazing lineup of speakers again this year, and we can’t wait for the event in June.
http://nordicruby.org/speakers
Landing page for ProjectPuzzle
As we mentioned in our previous Campfire Stories post, we’ve been working on an app to help with project scheduling. We’re getting closer to launch, but in the mean time we’ve put up a landing page where you can sign up if you’re interested in learning more about the app when it launches.
Elycharts
Elycharts looks like an interesting alternative to Highcharts JS.
Kalandae
A framework agnostic Javascript date picker.
http://github.com/ChiperSoft/Kalendae
Wednesday, March 14
Strong Parameters
Gem from the Rails core team to help deal with mass assignment security issues. An alternative to our own trusted_attributes.
http://github.com/rails/strong_parameters
Using event capturing to improve Basecamp page load times
37signals describes how they improved page load times for the new Basecamp by deferring Javascript event bindings.
http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3137-using-event-capturing-to-improve-basecamp-page-load-times
Entypo
More pictograms.
Thursday, March 15
Detail from the internal dashboard we’re working on.
Friday, March 16
Where’s _why?
Wonderful article about the disappearance of “Why the lucky stiff”, one of the heroes of the Ruby community.
http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2012/03/…
PaintCode
A vector drawing app that generates resolution independent Objective-C drawing code for Mac OS X and iOS.
