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Startup Playbook
Sage advice for startups from some of the best advisors in the business.
Layers CSS
A lightweight CSS framework for building fluid layouts.
Building an Enterprise CSS Framework
How salesforce approached redoing their CSS framework.
Hedis
The Hedis project is basically a mediator between your application and your database. It caches results from database queries in an attempt to improve performance.
Object-Oriented vs. Functional Programming
Quick read that, despite its name, goes over the common patterns shared by both object oriented and functional programming styles.
Ruby Tricks, Idiomatic Ruby, Refactorings and Best Practices
A cool list of tricks and tips for using Ruby.
Freehold
Freehold is an app that provides a web interface for viewing files on a server. You can install it on any server and it’ll give you a URL to use for viewing those files.
Static Website Generators Reviewed
A review of Jekyll, Middleman, Roots, and Hugo. Goes over templating engine, asset pipeline, content model and extending.