Double Shot #660

Real viruses are as much of a nuisance to the work schedule as computer ones.

• Getting Real about NoSQL and the SQL-Isn't-Scalable Lie - NoSQL has its uses, but as most people who've been around the block know, SQL is in fact scalable far beyond your puny needs.
• Sinatra's Watched Repos - The Sinatra ecosystem has been growing quite a bit. Some time I need to dig in to this.
• delorean - Gem to allow mocking Time.now in Ruby tests.
• BlueGreenDeployment - How to manage continuous delivery without driving yourself nuts.

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 #620

Looks like the first snow of the winter is about to arrive. My kids are considerably more overjoyed with this than I am.

• Puppet 0.25.2 - Big new release of this sysadmin automation tool.
• NoSql Databases – Part 1 - Landscape - Looks like a thorough survey of what's out there today.
• Gem webhooks - Gemcutter can now post to a URL whenever a gem is updated.
• phone - Country-aware phone number parsing gem.