Ruby
TDD is dead. Long live testing
RailsConf 2014 got underway earlier this week and as always some interesting stuff has come out of the keynotes, particularly DHH’s statements on the weakness of test driven development.
Ruby on Rails 4.1 Release Notes
Highlights in Rails 4.1: Spring application preloader, config/secrets.yml, Action Pack variants, Action Mailer previews
OpenSSL Severe Vulnerability in TLS Heartbeat Extension (CVE-2014-0160)
Ruby is affected when statically compiled against a vulnerable version of OpenSSL through the standard library OpenSSL C extension.
Real-time Rails Partials
WGif is a command line tool for creating animated GIFs from YouTube videos.
Filename sanitization for Ruby
Rack middleware for blocking & throttling
Javascript
Font‑To‑Width (FTW!) is a script by Nick Sherman and Chris Lewis that takes advantage of large type families to fit pieces of text snugly within their containers. Unlike other text-fitting tools like FitText.js.
A great JavaScript OCR demo by Konrad Dzwinel that uses some modern technology and libraries.
jQuery plugin to tagging like a charm!
A great tutorial by Oleg Solomka on how to animate SVG paths and animate along them.
Published already some time ago, this is a really useful resource of patterns and modules for responsive emails.
CSS
An inspiring collection of really good email designs by Matthew Smith.
Tools
160+ sites, apps & books that I recommend any designer should check out.
The Most Useful Websites and Web Apps
If you haven’t come across this yet: A fantastic collection of links to web tools that do at least one job. Collected by Amit Agarwal. Definitely one for the bookmarks.
Mail-in-a-Box helps individuals take back control of their email by defining a one-click, easy-to-deploy SMTP+everything else server: a mail server in a box.