• Your Version Control and Build Systems Don’t Scale - Some of the argument here is a bit sketchy, but the basic notion that we need to reevaluate our tools as hardware advances is sound.
• Sunspot 1.0 - Release version of this new ruby & rails library for working with Solr.
• jQuery Form Plugin - This super-simple way to ajaxify forms with jQuery came in handy today.

• ruby-standard.org - HTML wikified version of the draft Ruby ISO standard.
• Gemsday - Twitter-fueled popularity contest for rubygems.
• Rubex - Sinatra clone of Rubular that you can run yourself.

• Getting Real about NoSQL and the SQL-Isn't-Scalable Lie - NoSQL has its uses, but as most people who've been around the block know, SQL is in fact scalable far beyond your puny needs.
• Sinatra's Watched Repos - The Sinatra ecosystem has been growing quite a bit. Some time I need to dig in to this.
• delorean - Gem to allow mocking Time.now in Ruby tests.
• BlueGreenDeployment - How to manage continuous delivery without driving yourself nuts.

• How I reduced translation costs of 200 articles from $9000 to $46 - Second Life as an alternative to Mechanical Turk.
• Notes from a production MongoDB deployment - Some detailed stories from the trenches.
• Rapid prototyping with HAML, SASS and Ruby - A workflow for coming up with web site designs.
• Erector - Builder-like view framework for object-oriented HTML composition.
• ambitious_query_indexer - Another plugin for testing whether your Rails application needs more indexes.
• Flowdock Public Beta to launch - Our team has been using this tool, and it's been working well for us.
• Introducing GitHub Compare View - More analytic power from GitHub, who are clearly concentrating on feature differentiation these days.
• Unobtrusive, yet explicit - Jamis Buck tries to work out a useful pattern for UJS in Rails 3.
• S3Hub - Amazon S3 client for OS X.

• Warehouse -"A Web-based subversion browser that doesn't suck."
• Garbage Collection Slides from LA Ruby Conference - A good intro to a tough ruby topic, with pointers to some useful utilities.
• Great CS Program for GIrls Needs Funding - Another good cause that could use some of your hard-earned dollars.
• Using Sinatra to test remote services in Rails - Another testing idea from Elad Meidar.
• Canable: The Flesh Eating Permission System - John Nunemaker's take on authorization. Looks fairly similar to the way I've been handling it recently.
• rails_indexes - I think I mentioned this plugin for finding missing indexes before, but it came in handy this weekend so I'm mentioning it again.
• Support Details - A way to quickly query a user's machine for things like OS, Browser, IP address, and color depth.
• Migrations with Mongo (and MongoMapper) - Otherwise known as "mongrations".
• Lesson from Madlibs Signup Fad: Do Your Own Tests - Amen.

• Try MongoDB - A tiny tutorial right in your browser.
• About this Blog - All the sexy technologies that go into the PeepCode blog.
• Customized Google Forms - Courtesy of Dr. Nic.
• Official Launch Day: March 1st - For Codaset, that is.
• Spiking on a Rails 3 upgrade - Josh Susser walks through what worked and didn't for him.

• The Skinny on Scopes (formerly named_scope) - Excellent Rails 3 exploration from Ryan Daigle.
• How to spy on a Hash in Ruby - Proxying a class is an intriguing debugging method.
• Textmate-Minimap - A way to get your bearings when editing large files.
• Firebug Extensions - Good heavens there are a lot of them.

• iPad Colocation - Cute.
• Giving Up On Patents - Tim Bray joins those of us who think the patent system should simply be "torn down and thrown out."
• CSS Mess - One for the IE6 haters.
• Hobo 1.0 Released! - Congrats to this sweeping Rails plugin.
• jRuby and Rails 3, Sitting in a Tree - How to make them play nicely together.

• YoxView - Spiffy-looking jQuery lightbox-style image viewer.
• Learn how to test your code - The best bit of advice there is for the beginning Rails developer.
• A conversation I have every month or so - The perils of Flash web sites.

• Bling Bling gem management - Why yes, there is already a replacement for Bundler.
• Announcing the Currencies Gem - Multi-currency and exchange rate support for the money gem.
• htmlBurger - Paid service to convert PSD to XHTML/CSS/light JS.
• Inline Styler - Convert CSS rules to inline style attributes for use in HTML email.
• rghost - Another alternative for PDF creation from Ruby. Anyone used this one?
• Running Rails 2.3.x on IronRuby - Rob Bazinet shows how to take the first steps.
• HTML Dog - Well-recommended set of HTML and CSS tutorials.
• What really happens when you navigate to a URL - It's complicated.
• RubyGems.org move complete - GemCutter has finished its bloodless coup over ruby gem hosting. Time to upgrade your rubygems to 1.3.6.
• jQuery Simple Multi-Select, jQuery Multiselect list plugin, and jQuery MultiSelect Plugin w/ ThemeRoller Support - Three options for adding click-to-toggle functionality to HTML select controls. I ended up using the first of these on a project, and it works well.
• Use a 503 for your Rails maintenance page - One more little bit of polish and standards.
• Rails 3 Upgrade Handbook - Now out and ready to download. Looks well-worth the $12.

• Nathan Myhrvold's Intellectual Ventures Using Over 1,000 Shell Companies To Hide Patent Shakedown - The only reason I call the patent system "broken" is that I can't think of a more appropriate word that's fit for polite company.
• Git v1.7.0 Release Notes - Time to upgrade again. Note that there are some minor behavior changes.
• EZ-CSS - Yes, another CSS framework - but not yetanother grid.
• Hoptoad Notifier: Rack and automatic Metal support - Another functionality bump from the Hoptoad folks.
• A Visual Git Reference - With boxes and arrows.
• query_trace - I pushed out a new version of this gem yesterday.
• Rails 3 Beautiful Code - Presentation from Greg Pollack. Personally I am skeptical of "beauty" as a code metric in the working world.
• Bundler and I are breaking up - I've seen quite a bit of Bundler hate recently. Maybe it's just that it's not stable enough yet.
• Is The Singularity Here Yet? - Check the page source.
• Complex Nested Forms with Rails and Unobtrusive jQuery - This worked fine for me after I remembered that _delete had been renamed to _destroy in Rails 2.3.5.

Deadlines are raining on me like snowflakes lately.

• VersionControlTools - Somewhat rambling evaluation from Martin Fowler. It's interesting that he chooses git, Mercurial, and svn as the only three to recommend despite plenty of experience with the more "enterprisey" tools.
• Icons Etc. - Another big pile of royalty-free icons and images.
• Rails/jQuery UI sortables with single UPDATE query - Simple tutorial from Henrik Nyh. The SQL is MySQL-specific, but it's easy enough to write a workable method if you're on a different database.
• Smooth Devoperations: Deploying Rails 3 with Moonshine - The Rails Machine guys are committed to making Moonshine work well with Rails 3 while keeping Rails 2 support. Good news all around.
• Rails 3 Upgrade Handbook - Sign up for notification when this one comes out. Jeremy McAnally has already done some great Rails 3 blog entries, so this should be super-useful.

• editEase - A CMS implemented in...jQuery. Well, I guess stranger things have happened.

• Ketchup - jQuery plugin for forms validation.
• rails_metrics - Metrics engine for Rails 3 applications.
• paperclip-on-heroku - Fully-worked example of how to do it.

• Quicksand - Fun bit of jQuery eye candy for rearranging items on screen.
• Monitoring Delayed Job with Bluepill and Capistrano - Putting together a few more bits of infrastructure.
• JQuery Ajax - The latest from PeepCode.
• Rails 3 Testing environment - Gist showing how to set one up safely with rvm.
• TypeDNA - Some interesting font tools, including one that will identify fonts in uploaded images.
• Insourcing - Sarah Allen is experimenting with some ways to cost-effectively grow a development team without the risks of outsourcing, through carefully-managed internships.
• Visual Website Optimizer - Beta hosted service to help you do A/B testing with analysis.
• A/Bingo 1.0.0 Official Release - Alternately, you can just set up your own A/B testing infrastructure.
• Refraction - Rack middleware to replace mod_rewrite. One of the few uses of Rack middleware that actually strikes me as reasonable.

• XRefresh - Firebug addin to monitor file folders and refresh the current page in the browser when something changes. Nice for doing HTML/CSS design work.
• Install RubyCocoa with RVM - Gist that helped me out the other night.
• Delete/backspace doesn't work in nano - And how to fix it. Useful for those of us who aren't cool enough to bother with vi or emacs.
• Rails3Info - Links and resources collected by Bitnami.
• Bundler Schmundler - Giles Bowkett argues that Bundler is clearly not the One True Way.
• Harbor - "The web framework that doesn't get in your way." Yes, there's another alternative Ruby web framework out there.

• ripple - Ruby client for the Riak distributed database.
• Cerberus 0.7.5 Released - New version of the Ruby CI server that I'm happiest with at the moment, now with Mercurial support.
• GLTerminal - If OS X leaves you pining for the distorted fuzzy green-screen thin clients of yore, this little piece of freeware is the cure.
• Turn Off Google Buzz With One Click - Really, the only thing you need to know.
• The iPhone obsession - Doomed argument that web devs should care about standards instead of candy.
• Easiest Postgres Install Ever - Mac Edition - Script from Wayne Seguin, passed on by Philip Ingram.
• Git Autocomplete in Mac OS X - A tiny little bit of shell convenience. If you use the Git for OS X Installer, you already have the script on your drive.
• HoudahSpot - Search/Find utility for OS X that actually finds what I'm looking for, unlike Spotlight. Yeah, if I was a Spotlight pro there are probably commands to do all this. It's easier to spend money than time, though.
• rake_cap_bash_autocomplete - More autocomplete fun for bash. A bit slow though on my Mac.

• Plugin Authors: Toward a Better Future - I personally do not count breaking every plugin in the Rails ecosystem as "better." But if you've got a plugin that you want or need to make Rails 3 compatible, this is essential information.
• Using Bundler in Real Life - Scenario-based workflows for the new Bundler gem.
• jQuery with Rails 3 - How to get hooked up to the new unobtrusive javascript bits.
• New Feature: Amazon S3 now supports Object Versioning - It'll be interesting to see how long it takes someone to build a blob-based SCM on top of this.
• jBreadCrumb - Somewhat busy display aimed at handling deeply nested breadcrumb navigation.
• FireQuery - Firebug extension for jQuery development.

• Devise 1.0.0 - Major milestone for this Rack-based authentication solution for Rails.
• Cloudfront: no-brainer CDN Support for S3 - I've got a couple of apps out there where I really should implement this.
• Save file and reload Safari from TextMate - Passed on by Alex Heaton.
• Bye Bye Github and GitHub post - Afterthoughts - Elad Meidar discusses expectations and git hosting.
• SendEmail 1.56 - Command line email sending that can handle TLS (and thus Google Mail servers). Requires some perl modules.
• sinatra_more - Gem to boost Sinatra to handling more complex applications.
• Auto timeout sessions in Rails - Useful plugin from Matthew Bass, for the times when you need to keep people from just idling. I ended up forking it to make it use jQuery instead of Prototype.
• MR.Flow - Web-based designer for MapReduce operations.
• EdgeRails.info - Ryan Daigle is moving all his edge content to a fresh domain.
• RubyInstaller Release Candidate 2 - 1.8.6, 1.8.7 and 1.9.1 - Useful tool for people who want to run Ruby on Windows without resorting to a virtual machine.
• Savon - Ruby SOAP client that includes WSSE authentication.
• Wrap your SQL head around Riak's Map-Reduce - Personally my SQL head says "no! enough already!" but I expect I'll have to learn this stuff sooner or later.
• Haml Sucks for Content - Actually a good post on some advanced HAML techniques rather than another entry in the holy war.
• Less.app - Autocompiler for your LESS CSS files. Well, if you have any.

• Rapid App RC1 (Rapp) & Rails 3.0b Support - Webbynode is early to the Rails 3.0 hosting party.
• The easiest way to test Rails 3 - Instructions from BitNami to get up and running with their RubyStack.
• The Path to Rails 3: Greenfielding new apps with the Rails 3 beta - Walkthrough from Jeremy McAnally.
• Signed and Permanent cookies in Rails 3 - Pratik covers one of the new Rails 3 features.
• 52Framework - Claims to be the first HTML5/CSS3 framework, and as far as I know, it is.
• Standard Browser Security Features - Surely the most comprehensive writeup of same origin policy in existence.
• Rails Plugins - Site that's tracking whether plugins are ready for Rails 3. Not much uptake yet.
• The Rails Initialization Process - Ryan Bigg goes digging into the guts of Rails 3.
• Why Riak should power your next Rails app - Deep dive into another NoSQL alternative.
• Auditing Rails Projects - Quite old, but still workable technique for adding rcov builds to cerberus.
• D'Note - Automatically extract TODO and FIXME and so on from your source code. This could come in handy as part of a build process.
• mocklinkr - Make your mockups linked & clickable.
• Facebooker tips 1 - SessionExpired, Cucumber and Default environment - Elad Meidar is starting to document his battles with Rails + FaceBook.
• RoboDomain - Domain management tool for people with a lot of domains.
• Ruby Whois 1.0 is here! - The code behind RoboDomain.
• rake db:size - Rake tasks to get database and table sizes. A little collaboration between Elad and myself.
• jDiv - jQuery rollover dropdown panel.
• jquery-twit - And, yes, Twitter display via jQuery.
• Bundle me some Rails - An introduction to the way Rails 3 does library management. I remain deeply skeptical.
• MegaMutex: A Distributed Mutex for Ruby - Lock things cross-machine using memcached.
• Javascript unpacker and beautifier - Makes dealing with minified js a bit easier.