Links!

Links to documentation and other fun stuff for the GA Boston 2013 class.

Ruby/Rails Documentation

http://rails-bestpractices.com/

http://globaldev.co.uk/2013/09/ruby-tips-part-1/

http://kapeli.com/dash

http://apidock.com/ruby

http://rubydoc.info/stdlib/core/1.9.3/frames

http://www.zenspider.com/Languages/Ruby/QuickRef.html

The Philosophy of Ruby http://unqb.tumblr.com/post/50737858406/ruby-philosophy

Ruby Style Guide https://github.com/bbatsov/ruby-style-guide

http://www.rubyfleebie.com/understanding-fixnums/

http://www.sarahmei.com/blog/2009/04/21/object-ids-and-fixnums/

http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?PythonVsRuby

http://peepcode.com/blog/2010/what-pythonistas-think-of-ruby

Why's Poignant Guide to Ruby http://mislav.uniqpath.com/poignant-guide/

Also in PDF form: http://www.rubyinside.com/media/poignant-guide.pdf

http://apidock.com/ruby/Array/map

http://apidock.com

http://rubydoc.info/stdlib/core/1.9.3/frames

http://www.gotapi.com/rubyrails

r/ruby http://www.reddit.com/r/ruby/

Ruby Regex Editor http://rubular.com/

http://ruby5.envylabs.com/

http://rubyrogues.com/

Ruby/Sinatra course http://spring493.deliciousrobots.com/

======= Rails

http://guides.rubyonrails.org/

• There's a link to all the Rails Guides in mobi format for easy reading via the Kindle app.

http://guides.rubyonrails.org/active_record_querying.html

http://railscasts.com/

======= Git

http://ndpsoftware.com/git-cheatsheet.html

http://git-scm.com/docs

======= Big-O Algorithm Time Complexities http://bigocheatsheet.com/

100 Coding Projects https://github.com/thekarangoel/Projects

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Books

Javascript: The Good Parts http://it-ebooks.info/read/274/

Twitter API http://www.amazon.com/dp/0989875806

Beautiful Code- O'Reilly Press Coders at Work The Rspec Book

Seven Databases in Seven Weeks Seven Languages in Seven Weeks- compares and contrasts

======= Productivity

Cinch http://www.irradiatedsoftware.com/cinch/

Alfred http://www.alfredapp.com/

======= HTML & CSS

CSS resets http://necolas.github.io/normalize.css/ http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/css/reset/

HTML Microdata http://schema.org/

Adobe Color Wheel https://kuler.adobe.com/create/color-wheel/

CSS Specificity http://css-tricks.com/specifics-on-css-specificity/

CSS Specificity http://reference.sitepoint.com/css/specificity

Google Fonts http://www.google.com/fonts

W3 Schools http://www.w3schools.com/

CSS Frameworks

Gumpy http://gumbyframework.com/

Bootstrap http://getbootstrap.com/2.3.2/

Design Examples http://www.awwwards.com/ http://builtwithbootstrap.com/

======= Databases

Postgres sorting http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/static/queries-order.html

======= Other Non-Ruby Links

The Noun Project- free icons http://thenounproject.com/

General Assembly Badges http://ga.bling.phillbaker.com/#wdi):

Sublime Shortcuts https://gist.github.com/lucasfais/1207002

Semantic Versioning http://semver.org/

Know more about HTTP https://github.com/for-GET/know-your-http-well

Code Katas http://codekata.pragprog.com/2007/01/code_kata_backg.html#more

Some basic UNIX commands http://www.tjhsst.edu/~dhyatt/superap/unixcmd.html

Markdown Syntax http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/basics

Pry http://pryrepl.org/screencasts.html

r/learnprogramming http://www.reddit.com/r/learnprogramming

======= Javascript

screencasts on 'this' in javascript https://thenewcircle.com/s/post/1564/context_or_the_this_keyword_in_javascript_tutorial

d3 tutorial https://www.dashingd3js.com/table-of-contents

'Interactive Data Visualization for the Web' http://chimera.labs.oreilly.com/books/1230000000345/index.html

Leaflet- library for interactive maps http://leafletjs.com/

Backbone.js, JSON API, and Relational Data: A Primer http://robots.thoughtbot.com/post/62054652551/backbone-js-json-api-and-relational-data-a-primer

Angular.js Tutorial http://learnangularjs.net/

======= Design

http://hackdesign.org/

d3 examples http://christopheviau.com/d3list/

Data Visualization http://datavisualization.ch/tools/selected-tools/ http://chimera.labs.oreilly.com/books/1230000000345/index.html

Templates http://html5up.net/ http://www.designrazzi.com/2013/free-css3-html5-templates/

HTML, CSS, jQuery Cheat Sheets http://www.designyourway.net/drb/all-the-cheat-sheets-an-up-to-date-web-designer-needs-css3-html5-and-jquery/

Free Background Patterns http://subtlepatterns.com/

====== Culture

http://www.womenintechnology.org/witef/resources