Caffeine Driven Development

• The Evolution of a Ruby Programmer, very funny
• Gem in a Box, “Really simple rubygem hosting”
• Writing contingent Ruby code with #retryable, take a look at my comment at the bottom, too
• Ripple, “You Got your Riak in my Ruby”
• Alter Table Rails Plugin, very neat – should be part of Rails core
• Getting familiar with Rails 3
• jQuery with Rails 3, why is Prototype even still the default in Rails?
• Easy version management for Rails apps using VersionMaster and Capistrano, nice
• aruba, “Cucumber steps for driving out command line applications”
• The Power and Philosophy of Ruby, slides from talk by Matz
• AbstractQueryFactoryFactories and alias_method_chain: The Ruby Way
• wtfjs, “a collection of those very special irregularities, inconstancies and just plain painfully unintuitive moments for the language of the web”
• Vim Tips for Ruby (and your wrists), pure gold as I’m learning Vim at the moment
• Refraction, “Rack middleware replacement for mod_rewrite”
• Rails Metrics: know what is happening inside your Rails 3 application, there’s a screencast!
• How to Test your JavaScript Code with QUnit
• JavaScript: The World’s Most Misunderstood Programming Language
• Building Real-time web apps with Rails3
• Improved validations in Rails 3
• A Hint of Hubris
• Ketchup, “Tasty jQuery Form Validation”

• Ruby on Rails Tutorial, freely available, up-to-date, online book providing a thorough introduction to Ruby on Rails
• rake-compiler, “Provide a standard and simplified way to build and package Ruby C extensions using Rake as glue.”
• Speedy, “Painless Rapid Rails Deployment with Apache and ModRails”
• jQuery ‘Tab Slide Out’ Plugin

• Snippet, a very nifty app for OS X for quickly saving and retrieving snippets of code
• If Architects Had to Work Like Web Designers
• 7 Security Tips, the latest Railscasts episode that sums up the most common security issues of Rails apps.
• One specific thing I learned is that PHP files uploaded to an Apache server will be executed automatically by default. You can and should disable it.
  

Splint, the ladybird, actually sat on my bag all day long yesterday. Sadly, on my way home it vanished. Too bad.

• How to securely store passwords (using bcrypt-ruby)
• How to build a popularity algorithm you can be proud of, really awesome article with lots and lots of math.
• common_name, a plugin that lets you avoid cluttering your application with pluralize() and constantize() calls, and the like.
• routing_tricks, a plugin with more or less useful extensions to the Rails routing engine.
• 10 cool cross-browser CSS hacks, my cat would never think of them.
• Ruby’s metaprogramming toolbox, all the methods you need to know to be a metaprogramming ninja.
• Ryan Bigg’s Driver is now available for Linux. Great for me, as I’m running Ubuntu.
• “Using Apache as a BasicAuth proxy to an internal resource“, pretty neat trick from @bjeanes who works at Mocra.
• Another example of Apple’s pretty insane approval policies for App Store: “Your chat bubbles are too glossy!”
• Update: Support Details, cool service that allows customers to send all the technical data of their computer by email.