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mguterl··on Laying myself off from Amazon
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mguterl··on Free Ebook: How to Code in HTML5 and CSS3
I really have enjoyed reading through Shay Howe's guides:

http://learn.shayhowe.com/html-css/

http://learn.shayhowe.com/advanced-html-css/

mguterl··on Ask HN: What makes an API good?
You might want to check out The Little Manual of API Design:

http://www4.in.tum.de/~blanchet/api-design.pdf

mguterl··on Bad Indian Programmers
Unfortunately, paying someone well does not necessarily mean you're going to end up quality either.
mguterl··on Slow Tests Are the Symptom, Not the Cause
It's worth stating that this is the MailingListsController and there is no mention of a MailingList. It seems to me like some functionality in the "before" example could live in the MailingList class.
mguterl··on Web Scraping with Modern Perl (Part 2 - Speed Edition)
Your site never seems to load for me.
mguterl··on How our users exploited concurrency and how we fixed it
Underscore.js has a function called once for this exact purpose.
mguterl··on Show HN: Analytics.js – The analytics API you've always wanted
I've been using analytical with our Rails backend which seems to achieve something similar:

https://github.com/jkrall/analytical

mguterl··on Tell, don't ask
Inheritance is not always the right solution.
mguterl··on The Cloud Is Not for You
The idea of instant scalability is somewhat flawed. James Golick does a pretty good job of explaining why here:

http://jamesgolick.com/2010/10/27/we-are-experiencing-too-mu...

mguterl··on Rails, RVM, RSpec & Jenkins
Here are some Chef cookbooks that will help get Jenkins running on Ubuntu including support for headless browsing via XVFB and Firefox:

https://github.com/bmabey/continuous-cooking

mguterl··on Steak: because Cucumber is for vegetarians
We just started using steak and it is slowly replacing cucumber in our application.

We found the translation between English -> Step Definitions -> Ruby to be too onerous, especially after our stakeholders showed no interest in helping write the scenarios...

mguterl··on Steak: because Cucumber is for vegetarians
It also gives you the nice syntax "keywords", feature, background, and scenario.