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Install Rails 3.1 RC

gem install rails --pre

generate new app, skipping Test::Unit file generation

rails new my_app -T

Set up Gemfile

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Get Your Vim On

Rod Knowlton (@codelahoma)

Tulsa Web Devs - 8/20/2012

Last Updated: - 10/11/2013

First Things First

Learn to touch type (can be done asynchronously)
Read Your Problem With Vim is You Don't Grok Vi

HTML5/JavaScript/CSS Starting Points

A list of links to resources for the beginning web app programmer.

General

Mozilla Developer Network If could only offer a single link for getting started, I don't think I could do any better than this one. From the site:

>We are an open community of developers building resources for a

A SICP of Coffee

A weekend experiment by @codelahoma

Chapter 1 - Building Abstractions with Procedures

Mostly for grins, and partly to get a feel

Everything David Nolen Mentioned

When watching David Nolen's excellent Lambda Jam keynote on InfoQ, the references to interesting reading came a little too fast and furious for me to jot down, so I went through the slides and put this gist together.

The Dream Machine: J.C.R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal - M. Mitchell Waldrop
Purely Functional Data Structures - Chris Okasaki
Ideal Hash Trees - Phil Bagwell
RRB-Trees: Efficient Immutable Vectors - Phil Bagwell, Tiark Rompf

Steve Souder's Mobile Perf Tools (sources listed below)

Snoopy (source)

	" CtrlP config to replace Gary Bernhardt's Command-T config
	" from 'File Navigation with Vim'
	" (http://www.destroyallsoftware.com/file-navigation-in-vim.html)
	map <leader>f :ClearCtrlPCache<cr>\\|:CtrlPCurWD<cr>
	map <leader>gf :ClearCtrlPCache<cr>\\|:CtrlPCurFile<cr>
	map <leader>b :CtrlPBuffer<cr>

	" Custom Rails specific CtrlP mappings
	map <leader>gv :ClearCtrlPCache<cr>\\|:CtrlP app/views<cr>
	map <leader>gc :ClearCtrlPCache<cr>\\|:CtrlP app/controllers<cr>

	;; Does not handle parametized queries for the
	;; simple reason that I was dealing with a pre-formatted
	;; string to call a stored procedure.
	;;
	;; Feel free to fork and improve. :-)

	(require '[clojure.java.jdbc :as j]
	'[clojure.java.jdbc.sql :as s])

	# moved internal properties to arguments.callee so
	# we don't have to worry about name collisions with our
	# context.

	tco = (fn) ->
	(args...) ->
	my = arguments.callee

	my.recurred = false
	my.args = []