It was a working weekend for me, but apparently a writing weekend for lots of other folks:

  • OpenX ad server API with Ruby - I could have used this a while ago.

  • Little green friend - Thoughtbot is getting ready to introduce a web-based replacement for the ExceptionNotifier plugin, called hoptoad. Looks interesting.

  • Inept Recruiter - The story of a technical recruiter who managed to spawn an entire Rails dev mailing list through poor use of the cc: field. I had my own inept recruiter yesterday - wanted to hire me to work at Microsoft. Um, no.

  • If you work for Apple, we need your help... - The lockdown of the iPhone extends to blocking book authors. Bah.

  • Authenticate like SSO with ActiveResource - One approach to letting one Rails app provide authentication services for another. I don't think we've see the end of this discussion yet.

  • Blueprint 0.7 - Looking for a CSS framework. It seemed like investigating the most widely-known one was a good starting point. And indeed, using it is pretty simple.

  • Bitbucket - Free (and paid) hosting for Mercurial repos. Not that I'm looking to learn another source-code management system right now, but it's good to know about.

  • Blueprint Grid CSS Generator - Useful adjunct to Blueprint when you don't want or need 24 columns.

  • Blueprint CSS 101 - Good (though slightly dated) overview.

  • EditorKicker - Rails plugin to open your text editor to the affected file when an error happens in Rails dev.

  • WICE Grid - Fancy grid/table control plugin for Rails views.