tech

This revision is from 2013/03/15 00:51. You can Restore it.

This is the stuff I'm interested in. The denominator is the number of LearnUnits I plan on spending on it, and the numerator is how many I have spent so far.

Programming Practices

Semantic Versioning 1/2 - http://semver.org/
12 Factor 0/12 - http://www.12factor.net/

Ruby: 21/60

Testing

rspec: 3/7
capybara: 1/4 - HTTP automator.
Selenium: 0/3 - http://seleniumhq.org/download/ (browser automator)

Gems:

epitools 0/3 - https://github.com/epitron/epitools/tree/master/lib/epitools (especially Path)
Decent Index 1/2 - https://www.ruby-toolbox.com/
"Opinionated Gem" tool: 2/4 - https://github.com/technicalpickles/jeweler
SlimGems: 0/2 - https://github.com/slimgems/slimgems (RubyGems drop-in replacement)
Publish a few: 2/10 (pry-full and zu, so far).

vim support: 5/8 - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2315942/tips-and-tricks-for-using-vim-with-ruby-ruby-on-rails
Ruby Commander.
More Advanced:

Metaprogramming Ruby: 8/10 - http://pragprog.com/book/ppmetr/metaprogramming-ruby (Excellent book. Originally recommended by #ruby's LiquidInsect)

Higher-performance:

Concurrency talk by José Valim: http://youtu.be/ojU4O2CMeSc
Elixir (Erlang + Ruby thing) - http://blog.plataformatec.com.br/2011/03/why-rubyists-should-try-elixir/
memprof: 0/2 - http://www.rubyinside.com/how-ruby-manages-memory-and-garbage-collection-3006.html
bleak_house 0/2 - http://blog.evanweaver.com/2007/04/28/bleak_house/
RubyInline: 2/7
DTrace: 0/3 - http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Community+Group+dtrace/dtracetoolkit (not Ruby-specific)
Celluloid: 0/5 https://github.com/celluloid/celluloid-io/
DCell: 0/5 - http://www.unlimitednovelty.com/2012/04/introducing-dcell-actor-based.html
EventMachine: 0/4 http://rubyeventmachine.com/

Internals: 1/15

Ruby Hacker's Guide: 1/8 - http://rhg.rubyforge.org/
FFI
rbx

Ruby+Web: 19/50

Rails: 8/20

Rails Guides: 6/10 http://guides.rubyonrails.org/ (Starting with: http://guides.rubyonrails.org/getting_started.html )
Style guide: 1/2 - https://github.com/bbatsov/rails-style-guide
Rails Engine Gems (enginex) - (Replaced with `rails plugin new`) http://coding.smashingmagazine.com/2011/06/23/a-guide-to-starting-your-own-rails-engine-gem/
Phusion Passenger: 2/6 - http://www.modrails.com/
Spree: 0/6 - (Open-source e-commerce) http://spreecommerce.com/
Substruct: 1/6 - (Open-source e-commerce) http://code.google.com/p/substruct/

Rails Alternatives:

Sinatra: 1/4
Padrino: 0/4 - http://www.padrinorb.com/ (~in the spirit of Sinatra, but having some Rails features)
Seaside: 1/15 - http://www.seaside.st/about/examples (Smalltalk web thing)

Deployment/Stability: 20/45

Supervisor: http://supervisord.org/
"Config Management Systems": 2/10

Ansible: 0/5 - http://ansible.github.com/ (Simpler)
Chef: 0/5 - http://www.opscode.com/chef/
Puppet: 0/4 - http://puppetlabs.com/ (Seems overly-packaged)
SM framework: 0/3 - https://smf.sh/ (Might be cool, but innuendo is a real minus.)

Capistrano: 3/6
Smarter WWW

Using mod_proxy to Deescalate: 3/6 (Actually, nginx upstream's are nicer)

Monitoring

Foreman and Upstart: http://michaelvanrooijen.com/articles/2011/06/08-managing-and-monitoring-your-ruby-application-with-foreman-and-upstart/

Backups:

rdiff-backup: 3/5 - More endikos recommendations.
Sweet mobile sync idea: 2/4 - http://glycogen.net/2011/08/02/android-ubuntu-chroot-synchronization-with-linux-using-unison/

Ruby + Gems

rbenv: 3/4 - https://github.com/sharpsaw/ruby-dots/blob/master/bin/,rbenvi (Simpler than rvm, relies on Bundler for gemsets, ruby-build for compilation.)
rvm: 3/5 - http://rvm.io (Kind of cool, but ends up being a huge pain. Maybe rvm2 will be better, for now I'm 100% rbenv)
Bundler: 3/4 - http://gembundler.com/

Config: 24/60

See: Ultimate Config System

Web: 27/40

Reference:

Opera Web Standards Curriculum - http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/1-introduction-to-the-web-standards-cur/#toc
Google's HTML, CSS, and Javascript from the Ground Up - http://code.google.com/edu/submissions/html-css-javascript/
SitePoint - http://reference.sitepoint.com/
HTML element reference - http://www.w3.org/html/wiki/Elements
The MDC (Mozilla's Doc Center) - https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs

CSS:

Grid systems: 2/5

Intro: http://www.markboulton.co.uk/journal/comments/five-simple-steps-to-designing-grid-systems-part-1
Penguin example (history): http://thebookdesignblog.com/history-marber-grid
5 steps: http://www.markboulton.co.uk/journal/comments/five-simple-steps-to-designing-grid-systems-part-1
More advice: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/03/26/grid-based-design-six-creative-column-techniques/
http://960.gs/
http://grids.heroku.com/ (Based on 960.gs, but parametric. Endikos's starting point, usually.)

YUI:

Reset (strips all browser defaults)
Base (after Reset, adds back in resonable settings)

Sass: 4/6 - http://sass-lang.com/

Alternatives:

Haml: 3/4
Slim: 1/3 - Better than Haml?

…uses Temple: 1/4 - Template→Ruby Compilation - http://dojo.rubyforge.org/temple/
…and Tilt: .5/4 - Multi-template embedding - https://github.com/rtomayko/tilt (replace pandoc with a Tilt solution?)

Shpaml: 3/4 - http://shpaml.webfactional.com/source_code (Steve Howell's alternative. Simple - only a preprocessor)

TODO: html2shpaml

Nokogiri/Xpath: 1/4 - https://github.com/tenderlove/nokogiri

Aesthetics

Just™ Creative design basics: http://justcreative.com/2008/06/13/how-to-design-learn-the-basics/
Garr Reynolds design fundamentals: http://www.garrreynolds.com/Design/basics.html
I kind of like this page's font: http://www.refining-linux.org/archives/14/7-Job-control-and-background-processes/
Nice trick where the scrolling and TOC stay in sync: http://gkz.github.com/LiveScript/ ( http://gkz.github.com/LiveScript/bootstrap/js/bootstrap-scrollspy.js )

SSL: 8/15

http://curl.haxx.se/docs/sslcerts.html - curl's hints.
E.g.: openssl s_client -connect images.google.com:443
https://www.startssl.com/ - Free certs (!)
Open CA: 1/3 - http://www.cacert.org/index.php?id=51
Slick gem for Encryption - https://github.com/mdp/gibberish
Payments: https://stripe.com (!) Maybe: Google Wallet / Amazon Payments

Media:

Canvas
Working video/audo tags: 0/2 - http://mediaelementjs.com/
OpenAL

Concepts:

REST: 4/8 - …
tef from #rest recommends Jon Moore's intro: http://vimeo.com/20781278
"Hype"rmedia APIs - http://designinghypermediaapis.com/
locks's HAL links (#pry)

https://github.com/locks/halibut/
HATEOAS - http://timelessrepo.com/haters-gonna-hateoas
https://secure.designinghypermediaapis.com/nodes/srxrbavlioxc
Explorables:

"a more complicated approach" — http://www.amundsen.com/media-types/collection/

Javascript: 12/18

Annotated ES5: http://es5.github.com/
CoffeScript: 4/10 - http://coffeescript.org/ (Site has Annotated Source, among other things)

Codeschool: http://coffeescript.codeschool.com/levels/1/challenges/1
showell's line number workaround.

Frameworks

jQuery: 3/8 - http://jquery.com/ (+ jQueryUI, et al.)
Zepto: 3/6 - http://zeptojs.com/ (Lighter jQuery, doesn't try to work with old browsers)
jo: 0/6 - http://joapp.com/ (Mobile-focused competitor of jQuery)
Chaplin - https://github.com/chaplinjs/chaplin (seems like a "convention over configuration" deal (Railsish))

Brunch with Chaplin - https://github.com/paulmillr/brunch-with-chaplin

Ember.js - "opinionated JS framework"

libs

_: 1/3 - http://documentcloud.github.com/underscore/ (Utility methods)
CommonJS: 0/3 - http://www.commonjs.org/ ("standard library" for JS)
Backbone.js: 0/3 - http://documentcloud.github.com/backbone/ (MVC for JS)
Commander.js: 0/2 - http://tjholowaychuk.com/post/9103188408/commander-js-nodejs-command-line-interfaces-made-easy
WebAL 1/4 - https://github.com/benvanik/WebAL @ http://panoptic.com/rking/tmp/WebAL/samples
YUI

Asynchronous Module Definition (AMD) - https://github.com/amdjs/amdjs-api/wiki/AMD

RequireJS: 0/3 - http://requirejs.org/
Almond: 0/2 - https://github.com/jrburke/almond (minimal runtime after using RequireJS's optimization)
curl: 0/2 - https://github.com/cujojs/curl

Tools:

Performance testing http://jsperf.com/

Kind of funny:

Truth matrix: http://zero.milosz.ca/
"Wat" talk: https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat

DBs: 15/40

PostgreSQL: 10/20
sqlite: 5/10
MongoDB: (JSON'ish thing)…
CouchDB: (Another JSON'ish DB)…
Redis: 0/4 - http://redis.io/ (Another key-value store thing. Check out: http://try.redis-db.com/ )
ODBMS: 1/4
HTSQL: 0/3 - http://htsql.org/ (cce recommended as another way to prototype DBs)

3D: 8/25

Blender: 18/45 - http://blender.org
Pipeline intro: 2/5 - http://goo.gl/1hepO
Web+3D: 4/(10..75)

Shadertoy 2/7: http://www.iquilezles.org/apps/shadertoy/
P3D.in source (WebGL) 1/5: http://p3d.in

Full-size OS: 34/75

Gentoo: 9/25 - http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/index.xml

Overlays: 1/2 - e.g. https://github.com/MarcWeber/vim-addon-manager/blob/master/doc/vim-addon-manager-additional-documentation.txt line 722

Linux From Scratch: 0/8 - http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/
POSIX itself: 4/12 - http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/mindex.html
nixos: http://nixos.org/nixos/
OpenIndiana - http://openindiana.org/support/documentation/ ("OpenSolaris progeny")
Philosophizing about scripting and stuff - http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/1282
tty stuff - http://www.linusakesson.net/programming/tty/index.php

Mobile: 10/25

Android: 9/20

Official docs: 3/8 - http://d.android.com/
Android SDK: 4/10 - http://developer.android.com/sdk/installing.html - http://developer.android.com/sdk/android-4.0-highlights.htm

"Notepad Tutorial" - http://developer.android.com/resources/tutorials/notepad/index.html
Dev Tools: 2/5 - http://developer.android.com/guide/developing/tools/index.html
CLI Tools: 2/5 - http://developer.android.com/guide/developing/projects/projects-cmdline.html
Allocation Tracker: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6807965/allocation-tracker-how-to-use-it-to-detect-memory-leaks

Android Devs G+: 0/1 - https://plus.google.com/108967384991768947849/posts
Google Play: 2/5 - http://play.google.com/about/
SDK Choice: http://codenameandroid.org/category/developer-tutorials/
ROM: Replicant: 0/3 - http://replicant.us/
Android source: http://source.android.com/
Ruboto: 2/5

https://github.com/ruboto/ruboto/wiki/Tutorial%3A-Using-Bundler

Cross-Platform: 2/10

Rhomobile: 3.8/4 - http://www.rhomobile.com/ (kinda sucks, after all)
http://phonegap.com/ - 2/10 (now Apache Cordova, exposes native APIs to JS)

PaaS: 3/8

Stackato: 15/25 - wget get.stackato.com/microcloud
Heroku: 1/3 - http://www.heroku.com/
hpcloud: 1/3 - https://www.hpcloud.com/
Linode: 3/4 - http://linode.com
prgmr.com: http://prgmr.com/xen/

Dev System:

The Git Community Boook: 1/8 - http://book.git-scm.com/
Git for CS Majors: 1/4 - http://sitaramc.github.com/gcs/
Git in the Trenches: 4/5 - http://cbx33.github.com/gitt/
Redmine + https://github.com/schacon/ticgit ?
Sausage-making: http://sethrobertson.github.com/GitPostProduction/gpp.html

Ninja (alt. to make): http://www.neugierig.org/software/chromium/notes/2011/02/ninja.html

Testing: 12/35

Better RSpecness. 8/25
Jenkins ("continuous integration") 1/5 - https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Meet+Jenkins
Travis 2/5
diffuser! (Big TODO: http://github.com/ryanjosephking/diffuser )

i18n

Test Page - http://web.archive.org/web/20101122142726/http://code2000.net/scriptlinks.htm
urxvt 3/5 - http://linux.die.net/man/7/urxvt

HCI: 21/60

Design:

StanfordUniversity, How to Build an iPhone App that Doesn't Suck, http://youtu.be/ENyzcXRPeeI

HIG, good but low-level: http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/userexperience/conceptual/mobilehig/Introduction/Introduction.html
Step 1 = Know your users. Dogfood, or really study users. Better to build a great app for a tiny group (initially)
Step 2 = Search the store. Similarity to other apps helps users.
Step 3 = Explore possible solutions. Consider the constraints: small UI, difficult input, used for short bursts
Step 4 = Sketch. "Create 10 designs." "Quality through quantity." Clay pots study (segment told they'd be graded on quantity did better than segment told to do so based on quality)
Step 5 = Paper prototype. Users learning: Instruction (e.g. tooltips/popups) vs. Discovery
Step 6 = "Fire up Omnigraffle" (OSX prototyping tool)
Step 7 = "Do it all again" ("Nothing is precious.")
Step 8 = Code. (Building the UI before the data can be effective)
Step 9 = β test. Friends, MTurk. You only get to be on the "New Apps" feed once, so don't get bad reviews early from bugs. (Or maybe release a pre-version under a code name then the actual one?)

Voice control: 1/5

media-sound/cvoicecontrol: 0/3 - http://www.kiecza.net/daniel/linux/
app-accessibility/perlbox-voice: 0/3 - http://perlbox.org/

Foot-pedal: 2/5 - Figure out what to assign the buttons to.
Awesome keyboard - http://youtu.be/9yg3s77nAMQ
Leopold Tactile Touch Keyboard - http://www.elitekeyboards.com/products.php?sub=leopold,fullsize&pid=fc500rtab

FAQ discusses different switches (Brown is my frontrunner): http://www.elitekeyboards.com/support.php?lang=en

Das Keyboard - http://www.neowin.net/news/review-das-keyboard-professional-s

Clicky, like Model-M (though Leopold offers a similar switch)

Going Further

Viewpoints Research Institute! - 1/100 - http://vpri.org/html/writings.php
TAoCP: 1/50
HTDP: 1/10 - http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/matthias/HtDP2e/ - How To Design
FP:

Lisp

Installation: http://www.mohiji.org/2011/01/modern-common-lisp-on-linux/
Features: http://random-state.net/features-of-common-lisp.html
SICP: 1/10 - http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/ - Scheme MIT course deal Programs, a Scheme book (this is the preview of 2nd ed.)

Real World Haskell: http://book.realworldhaskell.org/read/
http://blog.sigfpe.com/2006/08/you-could-have-invented-monads-and.html
LiveScript

Alt Langs:

"Faster than C, safer than Java, Simpler than *sh" - http://code.google.com/p/anic/

Verbs vs. Nouns in programming - http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2006/03/execution-in-kingdom-of-nouns.html

Saw-sharpenings

https://github.com/Shougo/neocomplcache (For cases like working with the `ebayapi` gem, where a simple `^P` takes several seconds (though `^X^P` is local-buffer))
'ex week': http://blog.sanctum.geek.nz/actually-using-ed/

Other to-reads:

G.E.B - 2/6
Prodgy type net guy - http://www.igvita.com/
Ostio: http://ost.io/feed/ (Github-integrated mailing list killer(?))

For Our King, Only