Double Shot #652

Remember kids, sleep is for the weak and sensible.

• Nathan Myhrvold's Intellectual Ventures Using Over 1,000 Shell Companies To Hide Patent Shakedown - The only reason I call the patent system "broken" is that I can't think of a more appropriate word that's fit for polite company.
• Git v1.7.0 Release Notes - Time to upgrade again. Note that there are some minor behavior changes.
• EZ-CSS - Yes, another CSS framework - but not yetanother grid.
• Hoptoad Notifier: Rack and automatic Metal support - Another functionality bump from the Hoptoad folks.
• A Visual Git Reference - With boxes and arrows.
• query_trace - I pushed out a new version of this gem yesterday.
• Rails 3 Beautiful Code - Presentation from Greg Pollack. Personally I am skeptical of "beauty" as a code metric in the working world.
• Bundler and I are breaking up - I've seen quite a bit of Bundler hate recently. Maybe it's just that it's not stable enough yet.
• Is The Singularity Here Yet? - Check the page source.
• Complex Nested Forms with Rails and Unobtrusive jQuery - This worked fine for me after I remembered that _delete had been renamed to _destroy in Rails 2.3.5.

Double Shot #645

It's time to buckle down and deliver some code.

• Plugin Authors: Toward a Better Future - I personally do not count breaking every plugin in the Rails ecosystem as "better." But if you've got a plugin that you want or need to make Rails 3 compatible, this is essential information.
• Using Bundler in Real Life - Scenario-based workflows for the new Bundler gem.
• jQuery with Rails 3 - How to get hooked up to the new unobtrusive javascript bits.
• New Feature: Amazon S3 now supports Object Versioning - It'll be interesting to see how long it takes someone to build a blob-based SCM on top of this.
• jBreadCrumb - Somewhat busy display aimed at handling deeply nested breadcrumb navigation.
• FireQuery - Firebug extension for jQuery development.

Double Shot #643

Whew, busy weekend. It's scary when you look forward to Monday as a day of rest.

• Rapid App RC1 (Rapp) & Rails 3.0b Support - Webbynode is early to the Rails 3.0 hosting party.
• The easiest way to test Rails 3 - Instructions from BitNami to get up and running with their RubyStack.
• The Path to Rails 3: Greenfielding new apps with the Rails 3 beta - Walkthrough from Jeremy McAnally.
• Signed and Permanent cookies in Rails 3 - Pratik covers one of the new Rails 3 features.
• 52Framework - Claims to be the first HTML5/CSS3 framework, and as far as I know, it is.
• Standard Browser Security Features - Surely the most comprehensive writeup of same origin policy in existence.
• Rails Plugins - Site that's tracking whether plugins are ready for Rails 3. Not much uptake yet.
• The Rails Initialization Process - Ryan Bigg goes digging into the guts of Rails 3.
• Why Riak should power your next Rails app - Deep dive into another NoSQL alternative.
• Auditing Rails Projects - Quite old, but still workable technique for adding rcov builds to cerberus.
• D'Note - Automatically extract TODO and FIXME and so on from your source code. This could come in handy as part of a build process.
• mocklinkr - Make your mockups linked & clickable.
• Facebooker tips 1 - SessionExpired, Cucumber and Default environment - Elad Meidar is starting to document his battles with Rails + FaceBook.
• RoboDomain - Domain management tool for people with a lot of domains.
• Ruby Whois 1.0 is here! - The code behind RoboDomain.
• rake db:size - Rake tasks to get database and table sizes. A little collaboration between Elad and myself.
• jDiv - jQuery rollover dropdown panel.
• jquery-twit - And, yes, Twitter display via jQuery.
• Bundle me some Rails - An introduction to the way Rails 3 does library management. I remain deeply skeptical.
• MegaMutex: A Distributed Mutex for Ruby - Lock things cross-machine using memcached.
• Javascript unpacker and beautifier - Makes dealing with minified js a bit easier.

Double Shot #611

Know what day it is? Nope, not 2 days before Christmas: it's the 1-year anniversary of the announcement of the Rails and Merb merger! It's a good thing we don't need Rails 3 to build good web applications.

• WRKTE - Rich text editor in jQuery.
• #grid - Easy grid overlay for web page design.
• Ruby & WebSockets: TCP for the Browser - A technology I don't feel the need for yet, but maybe some day.
• Bundler is the new hotness: deploying rails apps with bundler and capistrano - If you're headed down the Bundler road with Rails 3, this will help you out with deployment.
• Portable Contacts - Ruby implementation of a standard for importing address books that's supported by some of the big players.
• Friendly 0.4: scopes, named_scopes, associations, and more - This NoSQL-in-MySQL project is moving right along.
• Statistics - ActiveRecord plugin for statistics and reporting.