Caffeine Driven Development

• Oh My Zsh gets an auto-updater, too bad it doesn’t work on Ubuntu… yet. I posted an issue
• Ruby Whois 0.8.0 released, a lot of decent changes
• Scribe client, client for the remote log server, Scribe
• Ryan Bigg announces Construct, good news. Some of us have been waiting for it to come along
• New Twitter feature: Lists, it’ll be interesting to see how useful it is.

• UI Fundamentals for Programmers
• State of the Hub: Rackspace day 1 & day 2
• testing named scopes
• Bumps, Cucumber + Google Wave
• GitHub: Designing Success
• Nginx buffer underflow vulnerability
• Migrating Twitter from Ruby 1.8.6 to Ruby EE 1.8.7
• MonkeySupport: Boosting Rails With Patches of C
• HTML Protector, apparently there are still people out there who think they can hide their HTML
• DeltaCloud, many clouds, one API

• accepts_nested_attributes_for and child callbacks, weird Rails bug
• Another URL cleanup at GitHub
• GitHub is moving to Rackspace!
• Twitter’s New Terms of Service

• Plausible GitHub competitor now that they have scaling issues
• I’m not a Mac user but TweetMyMac is such a funny idea
• Mike Gunderloy has wrapped up a tutorial on migrating to Snow Leopard
• Ruby Warrior by Ryan Bates is a game for learning Ruby and artificial intelligence
• We Are Morons: a quick look at the Win2k source (which includes comments with words like “hack-o-rama”)

This morning a ladybird passively traveled 25 miles sitting on my bag. Now that I have arrived, it’s still sitting there. I’m calling it Splint. Don’t ask why.

• New post on the Riding Rais blog this morning: Gem Packaging: Best Practices. Very interesting, definetely worth a read.
• Silk Buttons, a plugin for Rails with like a millions icons for you to use.
• Socialite, Rails plugin that generates links to the most popular social networking sites. Including icons and a stylesheet.
• The Longest Poem in the World. Brilliant. Just brilliant.
• Apparently huge security holes == flexibility in the ASP.NET world. Take a look for yourself.
• Hi, I’m. The winner of Rails Rumble ‘09. A really awesome app. Check out my profile.