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Re:What's new in Padrino 0.11 and 1.0 on Monday January 28, 2013 @03:26PM (#5130439)
Beautiful slides with so many information about Padrino. They helped me a lot!
Re:Practical Vim Released by creator of vimcasts.org on Wednesday April 18, 2012 @05:30AM (#3857141)
Great, that it is finally out.
Re:Ruby Frameworks? Which one? Bye bye Rails. on Wednesday February 01, 2012 @02:57AM (#3537136)
I love Padrino so much that I started to write a book about it and my experience in developing an app with it https://github.com/matthias-guenther/padrino-book.

Applying SMART principle for writing a book

http://wikimatze.de/smart-principle.html

This post is about the SMART principle that helps you to start and keep rolling projects. I outlined how I use SMART for my eBook project.I recently read the book Pragmatic Programmer, in which Dave Thomas explained the SMART principle. SMART is an acronym and each character of the principle has the following meaning:- S (specific goal) - what is the goal of the new project you want to start -...

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Tocdown - vim plugin displaying headlines of markdown files

https://github.com/matthias-guenther/tocdown

When you are writing a tons of documents in markdown with many headings and you want to get an overview about all the headlines you have, would it be very handy to have shortcut in Vim to simply give you a structured representation of all the heading you have in your large markdown file?<p>The great taglist.vim plugin solved the problem already for variables and functions of...

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Re:Learning how to code on Wednesday November 09, 2011 @08:43AM (#3215403)
One failure express the next one
Re:Learning how to code on Wednesday November 09, 2011 @06:49AM (#3215148)
The link is broken.

eBook about the padrino framework

https://github.com/matthias-guenther/padrino-book

Padrino is a "The Elgant Ruby Web Framework". Is is based on Rails and has some really nice features which makes it easier to create web application with less code and more fun than to with it's father Rails.Its an free eBook written in markdown. It describes the development of an application in padrino. Feel free to fork this project and to correct mistakes.

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Make notes after reading a book - you can't remember everything

http://wikimatze.de/benefits-of-reading-a-book-and-use-it-right-after-that.html

It’s a typical situation which every person knows: You look on your workspace and have a bunch of new books there. You ordered them because some great guys lay their hands in the fire that you need this wisdom. Of course you have to do a stressful job and don’t have time to read all the things but you still must learn new things in order to develop new skills. What should you do? I just started...

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Re:Riding Rails: Rails now tested on Travis CI on Wednesday July 27, 2011 @08:11AM (#2811767)
That are good news for Travis.