Up early with sleepless children. Gonna be a fun day.


  • Spree 0.8.0 Released - Another milestone for this open source Rails commerce platform.

  • Maps, Geolocalization and Optimization with Maptimize - Some fun techniques for those of you doing mapping in Rails.

  • Boks - AIR application that gives you a visual designer to set up layouts for Blueprint CSS.

  • How-To: Rack Middleware for API Throttling - A more reasonable use case for Rack than some I've seen.

  • Dreaming of Rails as the Next Microsoft Access - As an ex-bigshot in the Access world, I understand the sentiment here, but...no. I approve of devs with hats though.

  • Liquibase - XML-based tool for handling database change management. Looks interesting, but hard to see how I'd integrate it with Rails development.

  • Inkscape - Open source scalable vector graphics editor. Spiffy.

  • lazy_developer - A bunch of rake tasks to make working with Rails easier, notably (for me at least) one to reverse-engineer the schema to clean migrations.