Double Shot #810

A few orts to close out the work week.

• Jason - Free JSON viewer and editor for OS X.
• The History of Rubinius - Evan Phoenix offers some insights into the origin and growth of Rubinius.
• Ruby Freelancers - New site featuring a podcast for those interested in getting started.
• Yes, You Should Write Controller Tests! - Argues that as classes, they need test coverage in every method. I find that recently I've been writing a lot more integrations than functionals to achieve that, though.
• Shef Tips and Tricks: Steppiong Through Chef-client Runs with Shef - An introduction to the interactive console for the Chef automated provisioning system.
• Backbone.js: A Roundup for Beginners - Start here with a bunch of links to other resources.
• Customising ActiveRecord's attribute formatting on inspect - Yes, it can be done. And it's useful.
• Unicode Character 'PILE OF POO' (U+1F4A9) - Yes, it's really part of the standard.
• The Ultimate Collection of Emacs Resources - Yep, you have fun with that.
• StratifiedJS - Another approach to concurrency programming in JavaScript.