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Does anyone actually like end of the year bookkeeping?
Doesn’t feel like I have enough projects to justify the amount of busy I am. Not sure what that’s about.
Things are hopping a bit around here these days, thanks to some short-term work helping out other devs. It’s always fun to come up to speed on a new project.
I tossed out a few more bits of open source code over the weekend: a fork of suprails (though actually I hope the original project just merges my one tiny change), and a proposed change for Rails core (which you’re welcome to go test and, hopefully, +1).
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.
There’s some chance I may start writing a RoR column for pay. I cannot escape writing work, apparently.
- 15 Resources to Get You Started with jQuery From Scratch - A nice collection of links.
- Sexy Forms in Rails - That would be ones with automatic label tags for accessibility.
- Mack 0.6.0 and Waves 0.7.7 - New releases of two of the “other” Ruby web frameworks.
- Phusion Passenger - The latest PeepCode screencast covers this new alternative for Rails deployment.
- singleton_validations - Rails plugin to do validations on individual ActiveRecord instances.
- Getting Started with Merb and DataMapper - Ben Smith navigates through the currently-tricky morass of gems, source, and dependencies.
- Living on the Edge (or What’s New in Edge Rails) #3 - Not much visible right now, but still worth tracking.
- Installing Git man Pages - How to get the docs locally.
- jGrowl - jQuery plugin similar to Growl in its effects.
And now I get to become an instant Liquid expert. I’ve got the greatest clients.
- Managing Required Gems on Rails Projects - Check out the comments, too. Turns out there are a whole bunch of solutions. I must investigate.
- Cyndicate 1.2 - The web site isn’t updated yet, but version 1.2 is out. This continues to be my newsreader of choice for the Mac.
- Living on the edge (of Rails) #13 - Git script/plugin install, has_one :through - And other changes to edge Rails.
- markItUp! Universal markup editor - jQuery plugin to convert any texarea to a markup editor, in a variety of formats.
- Rapid Rails part 1: Command-line Mastery - A variety of tips to make your more productive in Rails-land.
- ADS Mantis Hosting - New alternative for managed Rails hosting.
Another weekend of slinging Rails code - but I made the deadline.
- Gemedit - Gem to make it easy to edit the source code of other gems. Useful for learning.
- Developing Rails Applications on Mac OS X Leopard - Very basic article from the Apple Developer folks, but it does show how to use XCode for Rails development if you don’t have another preferred project editor.
- Howto use the Ext JS Treeview (Ext.tree) with Ruby on Rails - And with lazy loading, to boot.
- jQuery plugin: Treeview - Plugin for the jQuery JavaScript framework. Useful to me, since I just had to implement a treeview in a Rails project that was already using jQuery.

