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This is probably a good time to mention that I’ve done a bunch more cleanup on the google_analytics plugin.
- Zero to Production in 15 Minutes - Step by step guide to deploying a Rails application on JRuby.
- Comparing PHP to Ruby on Rails - A relatively even-handed look from the Less Accounting guys.
- daemon_controller: a library for robust daemon management - Another tool from the team behind Phusion Passenger, aimed at better coordinating daemon process management for production.
- Firebug 1.2 Released - The announcement, with a good summary of what’s new.
- What’s Hot on GitHub - A roundup from Ruby Inside.
- Mack 0.7.0 - Another of the Ruby web frameworks marches along.
- GenerateData.com - Tool for quickly building reasonable test data. 200 rows for free, after that you can clone the site or pay for an account.
- MySQL Tasks - Plugin to backup, restore, and more as Rake tasks.
I woke up today having dreamed some Ruby code. Even scarier, when I added it to the project, it actually worked.
- The Complete Guide for You to Become an Almighty jQuery Developer - Fat list of links.
- 12 Unit Testing Tips for Software Engineers - Pretty basic, but worth a quick skim.
- Build Better Pages with Firebug - A basic tutorial.
New months always look so promising.
- Functional Programming and Looping - An argument for choosing the right iteration structures in Ruby.
- Firebug Lite - Get at least some of the Firebug goodness in non-FF browsers.
- Magic Thumb - $40 commercial JavaScriptto get that fancy web 2.0-ish enlarging thumbnail behavior.
- Robots.txt Syntax Checker - Spots errors and gives plain-language explanations.
Time to donate platelets again, in between pushing more bits around.
- Scaling on EC2 - Real world experience from the WebMynd team.
- List of Firebug Extensions - There are a bunch here I didn’t know about. It’s becoming a platform-within-a-platform.
- acts_as_overflowable - Lets a column overflow into a second column. This helps when you want to index text quickly.
- Introducing DataFabric - Application-level sharding for ActiveRecord.
- Spree - Rails-based online commerce engine.
Working on two site launches, tidying up code…life is busy & interesting. I just wish I could get away from the sysadmin nonsense.
- Firebug 1.2b1 - The new version (suitable for FF3) just moved up from alpha. Get it here.
- AT&T Coverage Viewer - Take a peek here if the siren song of iPhone 2.0 is already calling to you. Alas, AT&T appears no more interested in bringing 3G to Evansville than Sprint is. What the heck, there are only 300K folks in the area.
Mad whirlwind of move preparation is starting to get in the way of regular posting, but here are a few more things I’ve bookmarked lately…
- Is Free Beer Possible? - Discussion of the state of Rails documentation, to which I really ought to contribute (both the discussion and the documentation) when I get a few free moments.
- Easier Timezone support in Rails - Client-side solution to displaying server timestamps sensibly.
- Firebug 1.1 beta - The next step in everyone’s favorite in-browser javascript debugger.

