Double Shot #96

It's too early in the morning to attempt to say anything really meaningful here, so I'll just pass on a few links instead.

• TextAreaWithStatus 1.0 released - Automagically add those "you have x characters remaining" messages to textareas in Rails. I actually have an application cooking right now that can benefit from this, so this saves me scouting out the small amount of Javascript involved.


• iPhone on Rails - Creating an iPhone optimised version of your Rails site using iUI and Rails 2 - I don't personally have the slightest interest in owning an iPhone, but Rails 2 magic makes this pretty easy.


• Rails 2 Upgrade Notes - Courtesy of Slash Dot Dash. If your code is in good shape, upgrading an existing application may not be too hard. If your code is in bad shape, well, who's to blame?


• Faker - Ruby library for generating fake but plausible names, addresses, phone numbers, and so on. (via Ruby Inside)


• Hobo 0.7 released - Another round of this rapid design extension to Rails.


• WTFPL - Do What The Fuck You Want To Public License - A sort of reduction ad absurdum for the endless open source licensing debates.


• Really Simple History 0.6 goes public - Javascript library to take care of bookmarking and the back button in Ajaxy applications. Another one for the "I should investigate this some day" list.