Yep, I'm still here, though you wouldn't know it from my lack of postings. Pre-move preparations (we're headed from Washington state to Indiana on October 6) are taking an increasing amount of scarce time. But, I'm still doing all of my work in non-Microsoft pastures and loving it. I just don't have nearly as much time to chase links as I'd like. This should change in a month or so.

Also, a bit of advance warning: A Fresh Cup will be going offline from October 4 until I'm not sure when, as the server that it's running on will be packed and moving across the country with me. Moving the site to a remote server is one of those "nice to have" tasks that has fallen off the bottom of the list.

  • URL Conventions - As used by RESTful URLs in Rails. Beware, these are the Edge conventions - if you're working in 1.2.3, pay attention to the little note at the top about semicolons. (via Less Everything)

  • Database Conventions - Roundup of some of the Rails magic. This helped me out when I unwittingly used "type" as a column name. (The simple answer is "don't do that.")

  • CodeGear Releases 3rdRail - Another IDE enters the fray. I'd check it out, except that I simply do not trust Borland to continue supporting any product over the long haul; they have too much history of abruptly dropping things when their strategic direction changes. I've been burned too many times to use them as a vendor for anything now.