Caffeine Driven Development

• ASP.NET vs Rails MVC, hint: the Rails version is three times shorter
• SublimeVideo, HTML5 video player
• Quix, “Your Bookmarklets, On Steroids”
• rails security review checklist
• Park your Horse, Code Cowboy: Professional JavaScript Workflows, Part 1, “the first in a series of guest posts on professional Javascript techniques, by Amy Hoy”
• Diff Your Gist, neat UserScripts for GitHub
• Readability, “a simple tool that makes reading on the Web more enjoyable”
• Bayesian Classification on Rails
• rails-upgrade: Automating a portion of the Rails 3 upgrade process
• ThinkingSphinx exits, enters ActsAsSolrReloaded
• Using Multiple Rubies Seamlessly On The One Machine With Rvm
• rakegrowl, “Get Growled when your long running rake tasks finish”
• Conversational and short URLs on Rails
• A Simple Pattern for Ruby’s inject method
• World Time Format Converter, I wonder if he thought the short version of this name through?

• Ruby script for setting up a Rails Edge (3.0.pre) application
• Powerful Color Manipulation with Sass
• Introducing RCapture, “a Ruby library that allows placing hooks on methods using a convenient interface”
• Ruby Net::HTTP cheat sheet, “A collection of Ruby Net::HTTP examples”
• Rspec 2 and Rails 3
• Find By Hash, “Extension to ActiveRecord to allow you to do findy-thingies with hashes”
• fixwidth, “Bookmarklet, wrapping in a 600px centered div. Improves readability on 100% width pages”
• Improved Commit Diffs on GitHub. Absolutely awesome
• How to keep your Vim Plugins up to date
• NXdom, “Short domain name search”
• TipTip, tooltip jQuery plugin

• Firepicker, extends Firebug with a color picker
• goosh.org, the unofficial Google shell
• Riot: Ruby Unit Testing, yet another test framework. I’ll stick to RSpec
• RubyGems.org (Gemcutter) to become the default gem host

• Pair programming isn’t right for all projects
• Introduction to HTML 5
• 37SIGNALS VALUATION TOPS $100 BILLION AFTER BOLD VC INVESTMENT, serious fun
• Microsoft: Google Chrome Frame makes IE less secure, more serious fun
• The Duct Tape Programmer, Uncle Bob’s response to Joel’s post of same title

Funny Simpsons quote from an episode I watched yesterday: Bart meats a bunch of robots. “Hi, we’re abandoned robots too.” “I am not a robot, I’m a human!” “Ooh, how is it to feel?” “I said I’m a human, not a girl.”

• Apple vs. Microsoft – A Website Usability Study
• Introducing Google Chrome Frame
• Jetpack Flight Log » pbcopy in Ubuntu (command line clipboard)
• The Duct Tape Programmer

• GitHub’s move to Rackspace is old news, but they just announced that they’re moving this Sunday
• 10 Awful IE Bugs and Fixes
• Unit Testing with jQuery using FireUnit & QUnit, we’re testing everything else, so why not?
• “I quit my job” applause
• Unofficial Ruby usage guide

• First part of There is no magic, there is only awesome, based on Jamis Buck’s keynote at Ruby Hoedown 2009
• Five Ridiculously Awesome Cucumber (and Webrat) Features
• Deployment: Diffs and Dependencies, two new gems by Alex Young for ‘maintaining sanity when deploying’
• Ultimate IE6 Cheatsheet, how to fix 25 Internet Explorer 6 bugs