Double Shot #627

Some odds and ends before I fling myself at a pile of tax paperwork.

• paper_trail - Looks like a very thorough auditing/versioning plugin for ActiveRecord.
• Importing Legacy Data in Rails - An approach to wiring things up so you can grab data from a still-running legacy system as needed.
• Cappuccino On Rails - Rich front end, Rails back end, have fun.
• jQuery 1.4 API Cheat Sheet - Online (with links to the official API site), PDF, or PNG.
• jQuery 1.4 Released - The official announcement and what's-new list.
• Puppet Documentation - New site for help with this server management framework.
• whitespace-tmbundle - Strip trailing spaces and tabs when saving a file from TextMate.

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.