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Another cup of fresh Rails and not so Rails brew. If you’d like to send in a link, please use this page.

Rails

• NetBeans love – my Ruby and Rails IDE of choice.
• Testing Controllers with rspec.

Web Development

• Simplebucket.com – launched in 48 hours.
• Floor Planner ads 3D view powered by Papervision3D (click on 3D tab in the top right).
• DatePicker using Prototype and Scriptaculous.

Misc

• Windows Live Translator Beta – kicks some sweet ass. Try translating a site.

Another cup of fresh Rails and not so Rails brew. If you’d like to send in a link, please use this page.

Rails

• if_modified – infinite cache size and optimistic locks.
• The RJLayout Generator Plugin – prettier “default” style for a Rails app.

Web Development

• Table transposition in SQL – partial transposition of a table, very interesting.
• Learning JavaScript – you don’t have to pay thousands in conference fees to learn from the best JavaScript developers.
• Subqueries and SQL Syntax Sugar Diet – unexpected SQL optimization.

Software

• Windows Live Writer Beta 3 Released

Another cup of fresh Rails and not so Rails brew. If you’d like to send in a link, please use this page.

Rails

• A Brief Introduction to JRuby on Rails with Grizzly.
• Logging in Ruby on Rails – configuring Rails to use log4r.

Ruby

• Subversion Checkout Hooks in RUBY!
• Pwning Nil – fun with nils in Ruby, just don’t do it in a production environment.

Web Development

• An Introduction to Behavior Driven Development.

Misc

• Image Compression: Seeing What’s Not There – a study of JPEG compression algorithm.

Another cup of fresh Rails and not so Rails brew. If you’d like to send in a link, please use this page.

Rails

• Rails’ Unusual Architecture – let’s dig into it and see what makes it so unusual.

Ruby

• Ruby Logo Contest – $100k Yen to the winner. I hope it’s in singles

Web Development

• Fixing Tricky Layouts with the YUI Dom Collection.
• YUI Theater — Steve Souders: “High Performance Web Sites: 14 Rules For Faster Pages”.
• Optimizing Seam Carving image resizing in Flash.
  

Misc

• Top 100 Undiscovered Web Sites.

Another cup of fresh Rails and not so Rails brew. If you’d like to send in a link, please use this page.

Rails

• Capistrano 2.1 Preview #1 – breakdown of new features.
• Webistrano – Capistrano deployment the easy way.

Ruby

• Adding a “not” method for readability.

Web Development

• Best Practices in JavaScript Library Design.
• CouchDB – A document database server meant to function as a seamless persistence layer for an OO programming language (good intro, wiki and of course a Ruby API).
• Flash implementation of Seam Carving method for image resizing. It’s safe to say this is the future.

Misc

• Cut the Fat to Get to Lean Productivity.