I sent out pretty much the last round of advertising invoices for the Larkware site yesterday. That site is winding down fast.

  • Heroku - Create a Rails site online, edit it in the browser, in fact go through the whole development cycle without touching anything other than a browser. In limited beta. Looks interesting.

  • BackgrounDRb - Ruby job server and scheduler, intended for running long-running tasks in Rails without bollixing up your application's responsiveness. Now at the 1.0-pre-release stage.

  • Merb - Bookmarking the Merb framework site for my own use, since it looks like I may end up involved in a Merb-backed project soon enough.

  • DataMapper - Ruby-based ORM which, among other things, works with Merb.

  • Engines Plugin - Now updated for Rails 2.0.

  • Safari AdBlock - Simple new ad-blocker for Safari. I looked at switching from Firefox to Safari on my Mac the other day, but for the number of tabs I run with (typically 40-50) Safari gobbles up just as much RAM, takes nearly as much CPU, and loses out completely on customizability. So poo on it.

  • Rails 2.0 - a feature a day - Chu Yeow promises to dig into some of the more obscure changes in the new version.

  • Free Online Ruby Programming Course - Online, instructor-led course starting in January. If you're new to Ruby and learn better with company, this looks like a good bet.