Double Shot #775

Maybe, just maybe, the year is ending on a high note.

• In Major Shift, Microsoft Will Auto-Update Internet Explorer Users - Good news, IE9 is going to be shoved down users' throats. Of course there will still be some escape hatch to let ossified organizations run IE6, which we are doomed to put up with forever.
• Clean Ruby - Site for a forthcoming book by Jim Gay (lead developer for Radiant CMS) about enhancing MVC design with DCI to make code more readable.
• Data, context and interaction - Wikipedia on DCI, in case you haven't run across it before.
• The Command Line Crash Course: Controlling Your Computer From the Terminal - Zed Shaw takes you from pwd to chown (plus their equivalents on Windows).
• 9 reasons you must install Sublime Text 2. Code like a man, man. - Good introduction to fast productivity features.
• rubygems-sandbox - Install command-line tools (rdoc, flay, etc.) in their own private rubygem repository so they don't have to be global.
• Riak Handbook - $29 ebook on Riak that's so far getting positive press.
• CoffeeScript Cookbook - A bunch of sample code to run you further up the learning curve.
• Beta Bait - Service to match beta testers with startups. You can sign up as either one.
• Too good to be true! Twitter Bootstrap meets Formtastic and Tabulous - How to merge together three different UI chunks into a Rails application.
• vendorer - Gem to manage vendored code somewhat similar to how Bundler manages gems.
• sprocketize - Command-line interface to the sprockets gem.
• Map of CPAN - Zoomable look through the universe of perl modules. It'd be fun to see this for Ruby though I have no idea how you'd organize it.
• The smallest possible valid (X)HTML documents - Of no practical use whatsoever.
• MongoModel - Ruby ORM for MongoDB designed to fit in with Rails 3.
• Wheelhouse - Rails CMS built on top of Rails 3 and MongoModel.