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  • Express - Web development framework for Node.js.
  • MySQL Reference for OS X - Useful little cheat sheet for administrative tasks.
  • f.lux - Automatically update your computer's lighting for the time of day.
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  • jQuery.Syntax - Lightweight syntax highlighter.
  • Find Icons - Search engine for free icons.
  • Timing Ruby Code - It Is Easy With Benchmark - Reminder of one of the ruby conveniences I often forget.
  • Ruby Best Practices - You can now download this entire Ruby book for free.
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  • Rit. – The anti-CMS content scheduling system in Rails - A different approach to solving the problem of content updating. Here's the code.
  • Agile git Workflow - Some good crib notes for new git users.
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  • ContentFlow - Nice looking Coverflow-like UI implemented in jQuery.
  • Updating the Path Everywhere on Ubuntu 09.10 - How to make sure REE is the Ruby for everything.
  • State Machine 0.8.1 - Finite state machine compatible with Rails 3, among other things.
  • Using CoffeeScript in Rails and even on Heroku - CoffeeScript is to JavaScript as HAML is to ERB. Sort of. Dr. Nic explains here.
  • When can I use... - Compatibility tables for upcoming HTML and CSS features.
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  • Spotless - I've been looking for something to use to bludgeon OS X Spotlight into behaving. This might be it.
  • CSS3 Please! - Cross-browser CSS3 rule generator and sandbox. There's also CSS3 Generator.
  • jQuery Masonry - Pack elements closer on a page than CSS floats can normally manage.
  • puppet-dashboard - Web interface for the Puppet system provisioning tool.
  • Redis: Data Cheeseburgers - A quick tutorial on getting started with this tool. There's also Redis Weekly Update now.
  • Rails "Good Touch"/"Bad Touch" - Code to let you update dates on models without running through their after_save callbacks.
  • Setting rather than Resetting Default Styling - A different approach to getting baseline CSS for your web projects.
  • Designing for the Web - Free online book. If you like it, you can buy a PDF for a reasonable price.
  • Like, Python - Someone needs to do this for Ruby.
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  • Make Sure Your Rails Application is Actually Caching (and not just pretending) - Good advice as you're trying to tune performance.
  • markItUp! - jQuery plugin to turn textareas into markup areas.
  • ideone - Pastebin that also allows running code.
  • Rails 2 and Rails 3: So Happy Together - One solution to running both on the same box, though I think disjoint ruby environments is probably a better idea.
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  • Try Redis - Online/in-browser demo of the redis database.
  • 73primenumbers - I was amused.
  • Tarsnap - "Online backups for the truly paranoid" with the encryption happening securely on your client.
  • Spritely - jQuery plugin for sprite-based animations.
  • Drink Rails - Another Rails link blog joins the fray.
  • Lawnchair - Client-side JSON document store inspired by CouchDB.
  • happening - EventMachine based S3 client, for interactions without blocking.
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  • Mac Performance Guide - "For digital photographers & performance addicts," there's plenty here for developers to chew on too.
  • LightMongo - Persistence layer for Mongo that doesn't try to emulate ActiveRecord.
  • Spoke - Another way to package up and deploy gem code with minimal configuration.
  • rocco - Literate programming documentation generator.
  • Disconnect - More discussion of Rails 3 and Bundler.
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  • Vagrant - Automated creation and provisioning of VirtualBox VMs.
  • Programmers: What To Do If You Get Fired - Giles is hawking his latest product, but it still makes for amusing reading, especially if you want to hunt a new job. Of course I'll tell you how to be happier with no job.
  • Bundler: Oh the fail I know - Another developer steps up to complain of the foibles of bundler.
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  • Public Beta: Deployment Stacks: You now have a choice of Debian and Ruby versions on Heroku.
  • Smart HTTP Transport - Interesting, setting up your own git server might get easier now.
  • Smack a Ho.st - Easier testing for Rails apps with subdomains.
  • Ruby's Metaprogramming Toolbox - An introduction.
  • Highlight - Syntax highlighting for Rails projects via a plugin that wraps pygments.
  • Stubbing and Setting Expectations on HTTP Requests Is Now Easy With WebMock - Looks like a potential alternative to fakeweb with a bit more spice.
  • identity-map - Simple Identity Mapper implementation for Active Record.
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