Double Shot #639

Early morning coding is the most peaceful time of day.

• Elegant Themes Icon Pack, For Free! - Another set of nice-looking 48x48 icons for your apps.
• MyNoSQL - Tracking news and links related to NoSQL, which means I don't have to.
• virtualbox - Ruby gem to control VirtualBox VMs. Also: vboxweb_rb, which layers a Web GUI on top of this.
• Friendly 0.5.0: Offline indexing and more - The NoSQL-in-MySQL project is moving along.
• Rails 3 Upgrade - The PeepCode screencast, for free.
• Rails 3.0 Release Notes - The beta is imminent; the release notes are already live on the test doc server.
• Webiva - Another Rails-backed CMS.
• Line Comments Make Debugging Sass A Breeze - Debugging technique that I didn't know about.

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.