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”

• Bye Bye Github, the recent outages have consequences
• The Initialization Guide, 10.000 words – Ryan Bigg needs your help to find mistakes in the guide
• Give Back to Open Source, a challenge Ryan Bates gives everyone in his 200th episode of Railscasts
• 52framework, the first framework to combine the powers of HTML5 and CSS3!
• D’Note, “will scan your source code for labeled comments, collect, collate and sort them, and then return them to you in a format of your choosing”
• Rake tasks to get database and table sizes, by Mike Gunderloy and Elad Meidar
• The Building Blocks of Ruby
• Rails 3 Routing with Rack
• Scope a variable to a block in your template code, from which I learned something new today
• ‘What’s New in Edge Rails’ Moves to EdgeRails.info
• Using Bundler in Real Life, which de-mystified Bundler for me
• Plugin Authors: Toward a Better Future
• Haml Sucks for Content, luckily it isn’t trying to be good at it
• sinatra_more, “Generators, helpers and extensions enabling complex sinatra apps”
• MongoDB is fast, surprised? No? How much faster, then?
• Memory leak patterns in JavaScript
• Javascript Objects – A Useful Example
• Why ruby? part three – method arguments
• toto, “the 10 second blog-engine for hackers”
• Customizing Generators in Rails 3, useful

• Phone, “Ruby library for phone number parsing, validation and formatting”
• BloomFilter, “Counting Bloom Filter implemented in Ruby”
• Rack 1.1 released, it includes new features, optimizations, and fixes
• Things UNIX can do atomically
• REWORK website launched, the new business book from 37signals is online
• Automate Your AJAX Web Acceptance Tests with a Domain Language
• Slurper, “Gem for slurping plain text stories into Pivotal Tracker”
• Test Driven Development: Why it’s awesome
• Fun With Box Shadows

Do you think there’s enough links?

• NetRecorder, “Record network responses for easy stubbing of external calls”
• MailStyle, converts your HTML emails to use inline CSS instead of an external stylesheet
• Rackamole, “a rack application that traps user’s interactions with your web site”
• Faster, better, cheaper! TDD wins in a simple experiment
• NoSql Databases – Landscape, an overview of all the alternatives to SQL-based databases out there
• Reincarnation, making a Ruby class inherit from itself
• Cromwell, “allows you to easily protect your scripts from being killed”
• Rubinius 1.0.0-RC2 Released
• The Maximal Usage Doctrine for Open Source
• SCSS, CSS-style syntax for Sass (branch of the Sass project)
• Steve Krug on the least you can do about usability, a recorded presentation
• Cappuccino Web Framework, makes it easy to build desktop-caliber applications that run in a web browser
• Bonus: An SD Ruby episode on the above
• Admin Noob, “System Administration for Noobs”
• Waging War on Whitespace (using TextMate), I wish this could work in Gedit

• MacRuby soon to reach a new milestone
• Given, interesting idea for a testing framework
• ghostwriter, similar to the above, but this has code
• Banning Users Using Middleware