In which the intrepid author continues exploring new realms of software.

  • Getting into TextMate - Pointers to a bunch of resources for making better use of the TextMate editor. This is one of those tools that I know I will never really master, master-of-none that I am.

  • FiveRuns - A Web-hosted systems monitoring solution. This one is built on Rails and features specific monitoring hooks for Rails applications. I know from my time at MCP, though, that this sort of product is a hard sell compared to in-house monitoring solutions; monitoring is not the sort of thing that most IT departments want to outsource.