Monday
Dec262011
Double Shot #781
Monday, December 26, 2011 at 6:25AM - Foundation HTML5 Animation with JavaScript - Yet another open source ebook.
- New Developer Tools in Firefox 11 Aurora - The "Tilt" addon is integrated now, among other things.
- Ohai. The brand new Graylog2 is here! - Big release of this open source log management tool. It includes a swap of backends; here's a blog entry that will walk you through the upgrade.
- mate and rmate - Notes on TextMate 2's command-line tools.
- Build a Chrome Extension with CoffeeScript - Out of the major browsers, Chrome is the easiest to write extensions for. Here's an introduction.
- awestruct - Static site builder with lots of bells and whistles.
- Rack CORS Middleware - Support for cross-domain AJAX calls.
- Announcing Cheevos for Firefox - In-browser achievements as a way to learn more about the browser. Silly, but sometimes we need a little silly.
- Laser - Static code-analysis tool for ruby. Looks interesting, though maybe not under active development.
- Brakeman 1.1 Released - And while we're on the subject of code analysis, this tool has just been updated too.
- A few links for those interested in following Firefox developments:
- Features/Release Tracking - Major chunks of work that are headed for the next few releases, together with their status. Good place to go for an overview of big-ticket features.
- Releases - Upcoming and past releases. If you can't remember what the version number is for Aurora vs. Nightly, this is the place to go.
- The Burning Edge - Blog that tries to pick the notable fixes out of the Mozilla source code.
- Just Enough Ruby - Introduction to the structure of ruby in a "top down" fashion, emphasizing its object-oriented structure, messaging, and modules right from the start.

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