Justin Gallagher

A listing of links, images, videos and quotes that I find interesting or thought provoking.

  • Design
  • iPhone
  • Programming
  • Photography
  • Web

jQuery TOOLS - The missing UI library for the Web

Jun. 11 ’09

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Looks nice.  I have a few ideas to use this on already.

 

Understanding Git Conceptually

Mar. 25 ’09

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Good overview of Git that focuses on understanding things “under the hood” instead of memorizing commands.

 

Scaling Rails - RailsLab

Feb. 11 ’09

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A continuing series of short screencasts with details on how to scale Rails applications.  Episodes so far include responsiveness, page caching, fragment caching and action caching.

 

tlvx: The technical story of Muxtape

Feb. 1 ’09

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An interesting write up on some of the technical decisions behind Muxtape, including their decision to move from PHP to Ruby on Rails.

“How long do you think it would take to re-write the site in Rails?”
“Umm, well..”, Cmd-T, “localhost:3000”, Enter, “It already is.”
 

iPhone Memory Management Links and Resources

Jan. 27 ’09

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Nice list of about 10 objective-c memory management articles and screencasts.

 

Google Releases Objective C Toolbox

Jan. 14 ’09

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  • A Google Objective-C “style guide”
  • Geometry libraries to manipulate NSRect, NSPoint, and similar.
  • Gradient-based shading code
  • Additions to NSBezierPath, including GCPath conversions, round rects, and shading
  • Login item manipulation (Mac specific)
  • gzip for NSData
  • XCode configurations
  • and.. a lot more, naturally.

 

Improve your jQuery - 25 excellent tips

Dec. 17 ’08

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HTTP Client - Mac Developer Tool for HTTP Debugging

Dec. 10 ’08

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A Mac OS X Leopard developer tool for debugging HTTP services by graphically creating & inspecting complex HTTP messages.

 

Alex Payne | How I Use TextMate

Dec. 5 ’08

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Passenger preference pane v1.2 · Fingertips

Dec. 3 ’08

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12 SQLite Resources for iPhone Developers

Nov. 12 ’08

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CS193P - Cocoa Programming

Oct. 31 ’08

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Fantastic resource for learning about iPhone (and general Cocoa) development.

 

Why Programmers Suck at CSS Design (and how to get better)

Oct. 28 ’08

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There is a general tendency to believe that programmers can’t style things because they have no style themselves. Yet, all of them will be able to tell you very quickly which one of two designs they like the best, even if they generally can’t verbalize why. This seems to be an indication, at least to me, that some aesthetic sense is inherently present in all of us; what’s different is the ability to turn vague notions and gut feelings into actions and reusable procedures. And that’s where the problem is.

 

Versions - Mac Subversion Client

Jun. 4 ’08

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Seems cool

 

SQL Server - Dijkstra's Shortest Path Algorithm

Mar. 13 ’08

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