Double Shot#825

Sometimes, it's all you can do to stay a fixed amount behind.

• Rails Went Off The Rails: Why I'm Rebuilding Archaeopteryx In CoffeeScript - A classic Giles rant. Skip to the last paragraph for the summary "The Merb integration rewrite was a giant, time-wasting threadjack with only a few small payoffs, and DHH, who wrote two whole books about why you should turn down feature requests, should have nixed the whole thing."
• Selene - jQuery UI Theme that integrates well with Twitter's Bootstrap.
• jQuery UI 1.8.18 - Maintenance release.
• Dalli - High-performance ruby memcached client.
• SimpleForm 2.0 + Bootstrap: for you with love - Seems that everything is integrating with Bootstrap these days, including this Rails form builder.
• markdown-rails: Markdown for your views and partials - A way to make it easier to edit big chunks of HTML text in views.
• Skim - Client-side templating using CoffeeScript and Slim.
• Tyler - Tiling window manager for OS X.
• Riak Control - New GUI management tool for Riak, straight from Basho.
• Tumult Hype - GUI tool for building HTML5 animated and interactive content.