Double Shot #786

Let's start 2012 off with a bang. Or at least a big mess of links.

• This Week in REST - Weekly roundup of links and discussions related to the REST architectural style.
• Bats 0.1.0 - "Bash Automated Testing System", a testing framework for UNIX applications.
• smoking - "Simple mocks and stubs for javascript."
• SCSS.tmbundle - SCSS highlighting for Sublime Text 2.
• SCSS.sugar - And SCSS highlighting for Espresso as well. I wish someone would make an editor as powerful as Espresso's embedded CSSEdit 3 for SCSS files.
• Stop whining and start hiring remote workers - DHH discusses the simplest way to increase your labor pool: hire remotely. As an underemployed remote worker, I wholeheartedly agree. Also check out Wynn Netherland's follow-up Look locally, hire remotely.
• Hashify - Forget about short URLs; you can put an entire document in a URL (well, with a dependence on a short url service).
• Semantics Over Aesthetics: Use Destroy Buttons Instead of Destroy Links - If you don't like Rails requiring javascript for delete links, just fix it.
• Advanced Git - The latest from PeepCode, released just in time for the new year.
• Stay - OS X software to restore windows to your preferred position when you connect or disconnect displays. I didn't know this existed, but it's a great aid to my own workflow.
• Go2Shell - Add a toolbar button to Finder to open the displayed directory in a terminal window. Works fine with Total Finder and iTerm 2.
• jQuery UI Bootstrap - Apply Twitter Bootstrap styling to jQueryUI as a theme.
• What's PaaS.io All About - These folks are planning to build a platform on top of Cloud Foundry but aimed at small businesses instead of the enterprise.
• LastHistory - If you happen to have a bunch of history scrobbled to Last.fm, this visualizer is a fun timewaster.
• impress.js - JavaScript-driven 3D CSS transform presentation thing.
• 16" Portable USB Monitor - Even powered off the USB connection. Yet another piece of nifty kit to lust after.