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Episode #281 - June 15th, 2012

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Tribune Company open sources eight gems … New “Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots” podcast from thoughtbot … Grocer: another APNS gem … BubbleWrap: Cocoa wrappers and helpers for RubyMotion … Early access to “Confident Ruby” e-book … 25 things you need to know about Backbone and Rails

This episode is sponsored by New Relic. New Relic gives you performance monitoring, tracking, and reporting of your web applications.

  • New Relic
  • Gems from Tribune
  • thoughtbot podcast
  • Grocer gem
  • BubbleWrap.io
  • Confident Ruby e-book
  • Backbone.js and Rails
  • Ruby5

25 things you need to know about Backbone and Rails Jump to Story

Slides from a talk by Les Hill covering some of the questions that you might have when you are just getting started with Backbone.js. You can see the showoff source for the slides on github

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