Caffeine Driven Development

• How slow are (Ruby) Exceptions?
• Workflow, “Like acts as state machine (aasm), but _way_ better”
• On commit messages
• Git 1.6.6, when was the last time you upgraded?
• Gordon, “An open source Flash™ runtime written in pure JavaScript with SVG”
• Metaprogramming: Ruby vs. Javascript
• Vimcasts, screencasts on the famous text-editor
• Getting Started with Nokogiri, by the creator himself
• Compiling mongodb ’stable’ as a debian lenny package, useful in production

• ActiveModel: Make Any Ruby Object Feel Like ActiveRecord
• HTTP POST with curl
• Hamster, “Efficient, Immutable, Thread-Safe Collection classes for Ruby”
• WEBrick has an Escape Sequence Injection vulnerability
• tracked_plugins, “script/plugin now keeps track of installation, can list urls/revisions/install-dates and update”
• Rails and Merb Merge: Plugin API
• Free memory on Linux: free -m vs /proc/meminfo
• What Are We?, a very interesting talk by Francis Hwang
• Make IE8 Think It’s IE7
• FireQuery, Firebug extension for jQuery development
• MockSMTP.app, “Smart and simple e-mail testing for new apps and websites on Mac OS X”
• TotalFinder, Finder enhancements for power users

• Test::Unit 2.0 slides
• Cucumber: Step Argument Transforms, I have been waiting for this
• Fixing 15 browser issues with JavaScript/jQuery, vertical centering is not impossible!
• Rediscovering HTML tables, to be honest I did not know about the <col> and <colgroup> tags
• Linux Tip: Keep track of packages you have installed
• New project root URLs at GitHub
• Foreigner, foreign keys for Rails migrations
• CodeKata, “How to Become a Better Developer”

• You may already know ScrumPad, but I first heard about it today because it’s the sponsor of:
• Ruby 5 #8, the latest episode of EnvyLabs’ podcast
• Swirrl, new online database service
• Font Squirrel, free fonts for commercial use!
• Autotest Notifications on Ubuntu, extremely useful for me as an Ubuntu user
• Bullet, Rails plugin for finding N+1 queries and unused eager loading (supports Growl)

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.