There's a fine line between doing what the client wants and explaining to them what you think they should want.

  • Jungle Disk 1.50a - This is the release version with the "Jungle Disk Plus" functionality. I'm using Jungle Disk for my daily offsite backups and loving it.

  • Instant Rails 2.0 Update, Instant Rails 2.0 Lite Coming… - A smaller footprint version is in the works for those with limited space.

  • Starling - Twitter's lightweight persistent queue server, now released as a gem. (via Marston Online)

  • RubyStack 1.0 released, Catz and Matz rejoice! - The BitNami folks are now out with a wizard-driven Ruby/Rails/etc. installer for Windows, Mac, and Linux. Good to see; the BitNami installers I've used so far have been excellent.

  • pgAdmin - This looks like the de facto standard PostgreSQL admin tool.

  • PostgreSQL for Mac - I'm gearing up for some potential PostgreSQL-backed development, and this proved to be the easiest way to get it up and running on the Mac (I looked at MacPorts as well, but that was a pain in the butt). See also the notes here.

  • Ultrasphinx Updates - Notes and links related to the Sphinx text search engine.