Double Shot #105

I spent most of yesterday learning about RSpec. Fun stuff, even if I can't get the TextMate integration to work yet.

• A Meme I’d Like To Crush - Greg Wilson, who actually knows a thing or two on the subject, discusses the current swooning over Erlang 'cause it's so parallelizable.


• Merb 0.4.2 released. - Just as I get interested, they push out a new version. The difference between open source software and a red queen's race would be? (That's a trick question.)


• RSpec 1.1 - A significant release of the latest piece of software that I'm trying to spend quality time with.


• Campfire Notifier for Cruise Control - I'm not actually using either Campfire or Cruise Control anywhere at the moment, but if I was, this would be cool.


• Using Git with SVN - All of a sudden I'm seeing a lot of references to using git for source code control instead of svn. Looks like it's reasonably possible to bridge the two.


• Updating RubyGems and Rails in Leopard - I wonder if this would cure some of the versionitis I'm having on one of my dev boxes. Probably not, because I think I compiled everything from source on that box in the first place.


• GoogleCharts - I figured someone would wrap up the new Google Charting API in a nice gem for Ruby & Rails. I wasn't disappointed.


• Using SSH Agent With Mac OS X Leopard - Came in handy for me as I switched over to letting Leopard be my ssh agent.


• Google Maps API Icon Shadowmaker - This is going to come in handy on the site where I'm using Google Maps for a client.


• BitNami - Pre-packaged install stacks for a lot of open source apps across a variety of operating systems. They have a Ruby and Rails package that provides an alternative to Instant Rails. (via Anthony Eden)


• jrubyhub.com - More JRuby resources than you can shake a stick at.