• Material UI - Combo of React components and a Less CSS framework to implement Google's Material Design ideas, just in case you're note enough on the bleeding edge yet.
• Hound - Commercial CI service from Thoughtbot that concentrates on reviewing your code for style violations and posting them straight to your Github repo.
• A Guide to Speeding up Your Rails Test Suite - A variety of small tweaks & tips that can add up.

• Firefox Developer Edition - A new build of Firefox, roughly equivalent to the old Aurora builds but with the developer tools front and center.
• SlimerJS - An (almost) headless browser based on Gecko and scriptable (like PhantomJS).
• Rancher.io - Portable implementations of storage and networking services that aims to build an AWS-like experience on top of Docker.
• A basic infrastructure with Docker, Chef, and Rails - Another way to put the devops pieces together.

• Fig 1.0 - The first and last major release of Docker's development orchestration tool (last because it's set to merge into Docker itself).
• This is how we ZenPayroll: Our Development Workflow - How one midsized team focuses on pushing high-quality code.
• GnuPG 2.1.0 "modern" released - New set of free PGP tools with a bunch of new features.

• Shoryuken - Flexible and fast ruby message processor for AWS SQS.
• How to serialize Date and DateTime to JSON without losing information - I hate timezones. So does every other developer, I think.
• BFG Repo-Cleaner - I accidentally checked a 200MB file into our git repo the other day. This was the easiest way to wipe out all traces of it.

• Ruby 2.2 packages for Ubuntu - From the fine folks at Brightbox.
• Understanding the Ruby Garbage Collector - via annotated source code.
• 4 Fantastic Ways to Set Up State in Minitest - Making minitest more like RSpec.

• cider - Tool to store and restore a bunch of state from Homebrew, dotfiles, and more to make setting up a new machine simpler.
• Rails 3.2.20, 4.0.11, 4.1.7, and 4.2.0.beta3 have been released - Security fix time again.
• Rails 4.2.0.beta4 has been released! - Quickly followed by some fixes for outstanding issues.

• Git in Two Minutes (For a Solo Developer) - Just enough git to get you going.
• Ruby Object Mapper Reboot - The successor to DataMapper is going through some architectural changes.
• Whiteout Mail - New project focusing on end-to-end encryption for your email.

• RailsScript - Rails-centric framework for writing CoffeeScript that knows about things like the Asset Pipeline, TurboLinks, and Rails controller names.
• Is Docker Ready for Production? - Not everyone is ready to get on the Docker train.
• Eight Docker Development Patterns - But if you are ready, here's some good stuff to start with.

• CVE-2014-8080: Denial Of Service XML Expansion - A Ruby vulnerability serious enough that there are new versions of 1.9.3, 2.0.0, and 2.1 today. Install 'em soon.
• Pixel Perfect Precision - A ton of free info on digital design, available in PDF or iBook formats.
• SweetAlert for Bootstrap - A bootstrappy replacement for stock JavaScript alerts.

• Docker 1.3 - Lots of yummy new features in the latest release, including enhanced security, process injection, and (at last!) sharing folders on OS X.
• Introducing Payola - A Rails engine for adding Stripe payments to your application.
• DatabaseLabs - PostgreSQL as a service for all your cloud needs.

Yep, I'm still out here. Just juggling way too many things these days. I'll post when I can, and perhaps you'll still find useful links now and then.

• PostgreSQL 9.4 Beta 3 released - Plenty of new features coming down the pike here.
• Launch of the 3rd Edition of the Ruby on Rails Tutorial book - Out now, along with early access pricing on screencasts to go with it.
• 8 steps to move Rails view to Marionette - Transitioning from Rails to Backbone.

• Nightmare - High-level wrapper for PhantomJS.
• Sublime Text Power User - New $36 ebook, sample chapter and video available to check it out.
• MiniMagick - A release candidate for a new 4.0.0 version with lots of updates is available.

• Rails Crash Course - New print/ebook on Rails Development from No Starch Press.
• Code Browser - Open source folding text editor for Linux/Windows.
• easy-emoji - Integrate emoji with your Rails application.

• Taming Git for Docker - Script to remove a source of friction if you're doing clone-then-build as part of your test process.
• The Frivolous Frontend Framework - A somewhat poetic argument for why you need a framework like Angular.
• Refactoring Ruby with Monads - My brain doesn't work this way; perhaps yours does.

• Bootstrap Material Design - Theme Bootstrap to look like Google's Material Design.
• Building OS X Apps WIth JavaScript - I'm afraid my reaction to this advance is still "good grief, WHY?"
• Preserving technical knowledge - Some thoughts on bringing people up to speed as responsibilities change.

• takana - Live editor for SCSS (and CSS for that matter).
• spec-me-maybe - Introduces the 'maybe' syntax to RSpec, for times when you're having one of those annoying arguments with QA about bug reproducibility.
• Rails 4.2.0.beta2 has been released - Including some breaking changes and security fixes.

• Skinny Everything (Part 1 of 3): Using Decorators to fight complexity in Rails code.
• Docker Hub Offical Repos: Announcing Language Stacks - Quick start repos for Ruby, Rails, and other popular languages.
• Wrapping Your API In A Custom Ruby Gem - Supplying ruby wrappers to make consuming a RESTful API simpler.

• Introducing Heroku DX: The New Heroku Developer Experience - Better management & monitoring tools look to be the most interesting piece of this.
• 20,000 Leagues Under ActiveRecord - A look at some AR internals.
• Grape - Lightweight API gem-based DSL.

• Using Vagrant and Chef for Reproducible, Isolated Rails Development Environments - How to get started with the Vagrant workflow.
• Bash Booster - Lightweight alternative to Chef for use with Vagrant.
• Firefox Developer Tools Episode 34 - The new goodies that are on the Aurora channel at the moment.

• Rails 4.2 Overview, Part 2 of 2 - Covering Adequate Record and Web Console.
• Core Data Editor - An editor for Apple's own storage format, supporting XML, SQLite, and binary stores.
• This Week in Rails - A new way to keep up with what's going on in Rails commits.