Double Shot #877

Today: A few minutes of email nonsense, and then off to the woods for a work day. Time to get the council camp ready for summer.

• No more "bundle exec…" - Work proceeds on the integration between Bundler, ruby, and rubygems, including a gem to make things work today.
• HTML9 Responsive Boilerstrap JS - Put a fork in it, web development is done.
• Multiple Ruby Version Support on Heroku - Heroku apps can now specify which ruby (though not which patch level) they'd like to run under.
• UltraREPL - Souped-up REPL for node.js.
• gitspective - See your (or anyone else's) GitHub activity on a timeline.
• scratchpad-gist - Publish Firefox scratchpads to gists. (Didn't know about scratchpads? Here's the basics.)
• How to get 4x the performance out of Heroku with Unicorn - And thus lower the effective price of hosting there.
• Extending asset pipeline with custom preprocessors - Some advanced usage of Sprockets.
• bullet 4.0.0 released - Now with eager loading detection for mongoid as well as Active Record.
• Introducing Project Sputnik: Developer laptop - Dell is planning a laptop with multiple open source development profiles running under Ubuntu. This is very interesting and could wean some of us off of Macs.
• Bubble 2.0 - Charlie Stross joins those of us who've said publicly that VC money is getting very stupid again.
• PostgreSQL Magazine - Available in PDF, online, or dead tree editions.
• LESS Prefixer - Use vendor-prefixed CSS properties without worrying about which prefixes to use.