- InfoQ: Code is Liability, the Less the Better – Code is inventory. It is stuff lying around and it has substantial cost of ownership. It might do us good to consider what we can do to minimize it.
- Scale Fail (part 1) [LWN.net] – Companies hire me to "fix the database" because they think it's the source of their performance and downtime problems. This is very rarely the case. Failure to scale is almost always the result of poor management decisions
- "The Best of edw519" is now free. Reverse Happy Birthday! – edw519 – I built this book the way any self-respecting programmer would: with lots of shortcuts and software.
- Active Admin | The missing administration framework for business critical Ruby on Rails applications – Active Admin is a Ruby on Rails plugin for generating administration style interfaces. It abstracts common business application patterns to make it simple for developers to implement beautiful and elegant interfaces with very little effort.
- Cloud Foundry for Ruby Developers: A Tutorial … | Cloud Foundry – This screencast is technical and focused on Developers, showing them how to use Cloud Foundry, the first Open Platform as a Service by VMware.
- Code Coverage as a Refactoring Tool | Javalobby – Using code coverage to help with refactoring, when combined with TDD, is a powerful tool.
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