James Carr

• Yahoo! Placemaker™ Beta - YDN

• Apps for America 2: The Data.gov Challenge
  (tags: programming competition government)
• 6 Flexible jQuery Plugins To Control Webpage Layouts Easily
• The for loop
  (tags: bash scripting)
• Tokyo Cabinet: a modern implementation of DBM
  (tags: programming performance database scalability dbm)

• APE (Ajax Push Engine) :: Real time data streaming
• ClickHeat | Clicks heatmap
  (tags: javascript accessibility visualization)

• Dev logger: Ruby programming is art
  Nice little post I found showing how to write stuff like "every 5.minutes do … end"
  (tags: ruby programming)

• hpoydar's couchrest-rails at master - GitHub
  Now this is a bit nice… CouchRest is easy to use but rails doesn't like it's non-activerecord setup
  (tags: couchdb rails)
• mrtoolkit - Google Code

• Creating a Rack Middleware for Minifying Your Javascript files : decodeURI
  (tags: javascript ruby optimization rails)

I’ve been using chef for a couple days now for configuration management of my server instances, and it’s been a blast… I’ll have a new post on it detailing it soon I promise. Anyway, I previously blogged about how to setup couchdb on ubuntu and decided to write a recipe last night to automate installing it. It should be merged back into opscode’s cookbooks soon, for now you can find it in my fork on github.

I’ve only used it on ubuntu 9 and I know it won’t work on ubuntu 8 due to the package for erlang being a bit too old… I’ll update the recipe when I can to do get around this soon.

• opscode's cookbooks at master - GitHub
  (tags: chef ruby)
• Chef Wiki
  I've been using chef recently to handle server administration and deployments. The wiki page has been a GREAT resource at learning Chef quickly.
  (tags: ruby ec2 chef capistrano rails merb)

• Confreaks: MountainWest RubyConf 2009
  (tags: testing cucumber bdd)

• Speed up your JavaScript, Part 3 | NCZOnline
  (tags: javascript programming recursion memoization)