Still plenty going on in the corners of the development world that I follow these days.

  • confstruct - Yet another ruby configuration gem with many options for syntax and 1.9 support.
  • Ruby DataMapper Status - Ambitious plans afoot for this alternative to ActiveRecord. It'll be interesting to watch them come to fruition.
  • scriptogr.am - Dropbox and Markdown based blogging system. Follow the link to their own blog for some documentation.
  • shim - Node.js app that runs on OS X to enable synchronized browsing so you can easily test multiple devices/browsers at the same time.
  • campaign_cash - Gem for interacting with the NY Times campaign finance API, a nice bit of public service.
  • HTML5 Doctor - If you want the scoop on all the new HTML5 elements, this looks like a good place to start. Personally, I expect to learn them about five years from now.
  • Smooth CoffeeScript Interactive - The online book forked and modified so that you can run and change the code samples in any HTML5 browser.
  • Introducing the Backbone Boilerplate - A set of best practices and utilities for backbone.js applications from Bocoup.
  • Experimenting with Draper - A decorator generation gem for Rails.
  • Delivering a Mozilla Firefox Extended Support Release - Looks like there will be a version of Firefox for enterprises who can't cope with a version bump every few months.