ActiveSupport Method Of The Week : group_by

Collect an enumerable into sets, grouped by the result of a block. Useful, for example, for grouping records by date. Example:

latest_transcripts.group_by(&:day).each do |day, transcripts|
    p "#{day} -> #{transcripts.map(&:class).join(', ')}"
  end
"2006-03-01 -> Transcript"
"2006-02-28 -> Transcript"
"2006-02-27 -> Transcript, Transcript"
"2006-02-26 -> Transcript, Transcript"
"2006-02-25 -> Transcript"
"2006-02-24 -> Transcript, Transcript"
"2006-02-23 -> Transcript"

Soundcloud

A good writeup from Soundcloud about how they grew their stack to cope with demand as and when they needed to. Rather than going for a super scalable solution from the outset, they iterated on their app to add scalability as they went. I think it's a nice continuation of the Songkick article from last week about not over testing in your automated build. It's all about pragmatism.

http://backstage.soundcloud.com/2012/08/evolution-of-soundclouds-architecture/

Caltrava is a new open source JavaScript-based

Caltrava is a new open source JavaScript-based framework for developing cross-platform mobile applications. It's been built by a couple of Thoughtworkers. I think it looks rather promising...have a look and decide for yourself:

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Fontier extension for Chrome (Robert Pataki)

Everything is about the responsive web these days. When testing em and percentage based responsive websites I found it quite annoying that changing the default font size in Chrome is an annoyingly click-and-scroll-heavy task. I created Fontier that I used myself for a couple of weeks now, but I couldn't put it on the Google Web Store, as it used the experimental API. Google did a sneaky Chrome update the other day, and bless them - they moved the fontSettings from the experimental package to the core package!