Double Shot #581

I've had better weeks. But there's always fun code to look at:

• Time To Blog - Rails Developer John Lannon writes about being shot. If that doesn't make you feel lucky, nothing will.
• Consuming XMPP PubSub in Ruby - Worked example of some of the latest buzziness in action.
• rails_best_practices - Gem to provide some code-quality checking of Rails applications.
• NoSQL Ecosystem - Some guidance as to what's out there, and a useful introduction to how the various products differ from one another.
• RubyInstaller Release Candidate 1 - New alternative for getting Ruby 1.8 or 1.9 up on Windows.
UserTesting.com - Usability testing over the net at $29 per user on the panel.