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2008 was a good year for me professionally. Here’s hoping that 2009 shapes up even better.
- Ubiquity 0.1.3 - Just out, the new version of the command line for Firefox. Like TextMate, this is one of those applications that I know I’m barely scratching the surface of.
- What good is a flexible paperclip? - Thoughtbot’s file attachment plugin is getting some overhaul.
- Espresso Public Beta - MacRabbit’s new web development environment. I need to find time to play with this, too.
- [ANN] Ruby 1.9.1 RC1 is released‘ - I’m responsible for this, you know: it happened minutes after I managed to get 1.9.1-pre2 installed.
- Learnivore! - Aggregation portal for Ruby and related screencasts.
Last one of these before my tiny Christmas break.
Does anyone actually like end of the year bookkeeping?
Tonight I’m demonstrating Rails to the local .NET user group. I may survive.
Losing internet for a day was good for a day off. Not the day off I wanted to take, I fear.
- New YSlow With Firefox 3 Support - A welcome addition to the debugging tools available for FF3.
- Announcing the Django Software Foundation - A nice boost for the framework I didn’t quite go with.
Switching an app from solr to ferret today…and crossing my fingers.
- Freeconomics Part I - or who is paying for your Free lunch? - Some basic economic analysis from Broadstuff that ought to be more obvious to those who claim there’s no bubble going on.
- RSpec waving ‘bye bye’ to implicit module inclusion - News of a change coming that will break RSpec compatibility.
- Download Day -The latest silly Firefox promotional stunt.
- Announcing non-profit Hobo Foundation - Looks like the Hobo additions to Rails have some money behind them now.
- TuneUp - New site/plugin from FiveRuns that sends perf information from your Rails site to a community discussion board (you choose which info to show) so others can help you troubleshoot. More info here.
It’s school vacation week around here, so I’m looking forward to writing plenty of code.
- Firefox 3 (Release Candidate) Release Notes - If you’ve been holding off upgrading, this is a good time to go for it.
- Cloud Studio - Another tool for managing Amazon Web Services instances.
- A Hodel 3000 Compliant Logger for the Rest of Us - Old stuff, but I’m bookmarking here so I can find it again. Good info on basic perf monitoring for Rails apps.
- Rails on Rubinius - A milestone achieved. (via Ezra Zygmuntowicz)
- Key Rollover - Instructions for recovering from last week’s giant Debian security cock-up.
- Debian OpenSSL Predictable PRNG Toys - In fact, you can even download handy lists of all the valid keys from the bad versions of Debian. Lovely.
- WindyCityRails - Rails conference in Chicago in September. I’m thinking about it.
Finally got the multi-file upload feature I’ve been wrassling with working. Hopefully this means I can move on to something else soon.
- Widgetfinger - CMS that is designed to automate as much as possible of very small sites.
- LiveHTTPHeaders - Header-monitoring add-in for Firefox. I honestly like ieHTTPHeaders better from a UI point of view - but not enough better to use IE.
- Living on the Edge (of Rails) #20 - Things are moving slowly in edge Rails at the moment.
- Huba Huba - Tidbits for advanced GitHub use. Man, I just can’t keep up with the kids these days.
- Rails 2.1 RC1 - Beans spilled via Twitter.
- Prototype 1.6 PDF - Printable documentation for this javascript library.
- Firefox 3 Release Candidate 1 Code Complete - I’ve been using the nightly builds. They’ve stabilized vastly in the last couple of weeks.
- Merbunity - Community site for merb news and tutorials.
- TextMate Bundles for Merb - News from Dr. Nic.
It was a productive weekend; I got a major feature shipped for one of the sites I work on. Now back to the regular workweek.
- Pitfalls in RESTful “wizards” - dealing with page-caching fun in Rails.
- Nightly Tester Tools 2.01 - I don’t think I could live on edge Firefox without this. The ability to selectively recover tabs from the previous session is a winner.
- Stage 0.3.1 - Code generator for Rails and Merb using the presenter pattern.
- Prototip - Flexible tooltips for Prototype/Scriptaculous.
- Scripteka - Library of extensions for Prototype.
- Living on the edge (of Rails) #18 - It’s been a quiet week.
- Making Compact Forms More Accessible - Easiest way I found to get hints in textareas that vanish when users start typing.
- The Apple “i” - Nice sendup of the prototypical Apple keynote.
- Promise and Peril for Alternative Ruby Impls - Probably more Ruby VM gossip than you really need.
It’s shaping up to be another busy week. Can’t complain about that.
- Safari 3.1 Breaks Your App - Apparently the new Safari doesn’t play nice with Prototype. Here’s a workaround.
- DownThemAll! - Firefox add-on that came in very handy the other day when I needed to grab all the images from a page redesign. If you use Images, View Image Information from the Web Dev toolbar you can build a page that has URLs for everything including CSS background images.
- Absolute Moron’s Guide to Forms in Rails, Part I - From the Softies on Rails guys.
- RailsMan - Rails application management utility for OS X, aiming to replace the now-discontinued Locomotive.
The problem with social networks is that they force you to be social :)
- Microsoft Activities for Firefox - New Version - Didn’t take the open source community long to clone that feature.
- Integrating Scribd with your Rails application - Ben Curtis has some details.
- RadRails 1.0 - This open source IDE (now integrated with Aptana) has reached release. Looks pretty nice. Peter Cooper from Ruby Inside likes it.
- Living on the edge (of Rails) #11 - Summary of another week in development land.
- QGit - Replacement for gitk built on Qt.
Having fun ramping up to a higher level of RSpec use, though it still makes my brain hurt sometimes.
- Firefox 3 Beta 4 - Just in time for me to hope that it fixes some CPU-spiking issues I was having recently with beta 3. Release notes are here.
The new GrowlMail beta works with OS X 10.5.2 just fine. They ask that people not link to the beta URL, but if you need it and can’t find it drop me a line and I’ll point you in the right direction.
- Firefox 3 Beta 3 - I’m running this full-time now, and it’s my browser of choice. Release notes here.
- BrainBuster 0.8.0 - Logic-based captchas for Rails.
- InfiniteBits - Web and FTP access to Amazon S3. Looks interesting, though other tools (like Transmit) are adding direct FTP integration these days too.
Yesterday was one of those days for tracing through code for two hours and then writing five characters to fix a bug. They were the right five characters, though.
- Stacks Overlays - I got sick of the stupid default appearance of OS X stacks and installed this fix.
- Firefox 3 Beta 2 - I’ve been using Firefox 3 as my default browser since beta 1 came out. It’s been quite stable for me.
- GemInstaller - Automated management tool for Ruby gems, designed to avoid the “but it works on my machine” syndrome when moving to production (among other issues).
- Amazon DevPay - Limited Beta - Yet another new service from the Amazon Web Services team: billing and account management.
It’s the Thanksgiving holiday here. With luck that will mean fewer interruptions than usual, and I can actually get some work done.
- RubyWorks Production Stack on Amazon EC2 - Capistrano recipes for getting up and running quickly on your shiny new EC2 instance.
- AddonUpdateSecurity - The first major annoyance I’ve hit in Firefox 3. With their newly-tightened security, you cannot install an extension that isn’t hosted securely (like, say, BugMeNot). I understand the arguments for this, but just like version compatibility issues, I think you ought to be able to set a key to shoot yourself in the foot if you want.
The big open source event yesterday was the release of Firefox 3 beta 1. I’m soaking in it right now, and so far it’s working stably for me (no opinion yet on whether it’s any improvement on the RAM front), so let’s start with a few related links.
- Firefox 3 Beta 1 Release Notes - With a link to the download page.
- How to have Firefox 3 and Firefox 2 running at the same time - Useful if you don’t want to gamble too much. If you’re on a Mac remember to put the package in a folder somewhere so you don’t overwrite your Firefox 2 install.
- Extension Versioning, Update and Compatibility - This page at the Mozilla Development Center has the details on the configuration setting (type about:config in the address bar to get there) that you can make to turn off extension version checking entirely. If you turn it off, you can install any add-on you want to Firefox 3, whether it’s been updated or not. Don’t blame me if you break something.
- Nightly Tester Tools - If you do an upgrade and your add-ons stop working, you can install the Nightly Tester Tools to get a button in the extensions dialog that will re-enable them.
- Assembla - Another online workspace for your development team, with Subversion, Trac, and unlimited team size at their free level.
ReminderFox looks to be the missing piece I was looking for to handle appointment and task management in Mozilla-land.
The folks over at Explorer Destroyer want you to encourage people to switch from IE to Firefox. They’ll help you code a special notice or splash page that only nags IE users, or even blocks IE users from your site entirely. I’m not ready to go that far, but I give them points for dedication.
