• How's My SSL - Check to make sure your browser is using sensible security defaults.
• Improving our SSL Setup - GitHub walks through some of the things they did to harden up the server side.
• Sneakers - Another entrant in the background processing library for Ruby sweepstakes.
• Naforo Beta - New code review platform taking signups for a closed beta.

• Coffeeshop - Open source project to create a virtual shared space for people to work in.
• Google Analytics for GitHub - Or for any other site that won't allow you to install arbitrary tracking code.
• Reading Rails - Concern - Another look beneath the covers.

• Gitalytics - Ruby gem to provide some quick stats on git repo commits.
• Spacegray - A set of minimal Sublime Text themes.
• Entrepreneur's Guides to Asia - Books to help you start a business in Cambodia, Korea, Malaysia, Myanmar…16 countries in all. Or one 4500-page eBook covers everything.

• alpaca - Define your API in JSON, and automatically build client libraries for Python, Ruby, PHP, and Node.
• Exception#cause in Ruby 2.1 - Notes about a new feature form BugSnag.
• Conquering the Command Line - Free ebook of unix command info aimed at developers.

• Clean Code. "I do not think that word means what you think it means." - Active Record doesn't really implement the Active Record pattern, you know.
• SublimeRubyDebugger - Full scale ruby and rails debugger for Sublime Text.
• BlackTie Free Bootstrap Themes - Make your Bootstrap backed site look a bit more distinct.

• Reading Rails - More Migrations - Digging through some of the Rails internals.
• Announcing Lotus - New Ruby web framework "leveraging on stable APIs, a minimal DSL, and plain objects."

Happy New Year!

• polybox - A combo of Docker and Vagrant to make full dev environments easily available. Prestocked with boxes for Rails 4, Django, Go, Haskell, and Nodejs.

• The Shok Command Shell - Cross-platform shell with an embedded programming language.
• Ruby 2.1: RGenGC - A technical look at the garbage collector in Ruby 2.1.
• docker-osx - An easy way to play with Docker on your Mac.

• LightPaper for Mac - Free Markdown editor.
• COBOL on Wheelchair - Has anyone compiled a list of how many 'X on Y' parody frameworks exist by now?
• PostgreSQL indexing in Rails - Some basics and some advanced techniques.

• Best of Sublime Text 3: Features, Plugins, and Settings - Some introductory material on making ST3 act and look nice.
• Ruby Docs - Create your own combined searchable Ruby and Rails documentation of exactly the versions that you're using.
• 2.2.0 Released - Of RubyGems, that is.

• Spice up your recipes with Chef Sugar - Some utility functions to streamline your Chef recipes.
• Scriptexecutor - Ruby library to easily execute remote scripts.
• Ruby 2.1.0 is released - Merry Christmas from the ruby team.

• Gitless: a version control system - Experimental VCS built on top of git.
• eBook Bonanza - All Packt ebooks are $5 for the next week.
• Announcing Building Mac OS X apps with RubyMotion book - Coming from Elliott Draper.

• Coverband - Check your code coverage in production to see what actually gets run.
• List of Minimalist Frameworks - For ruby, python, node and others.
• Introducing Sourcing.io - A search engine for finding engineers.

• Rails 4.1.0 beta 1 - Now available, and solid enough to run seriously.
• jQuery Audit - Chrome Developer Tools extension for working with jQuery.
• Virtus 1.0.0 Released - API for defining models, extracted from DataMapper.

• The Saddest Moment - Best computer security paper ever.
• Assets management solved: we released Rails Assets - Proxy Bundler and Bower together for more comprehensive management.
• On undoing, fixing, or removing commits in git - How to recover from git mistakes.
• Prawn 0.13.0 has been released, and 1.0 is (finally) on the horizon - PDF toolkit comes back from near death.

• Codebrag - New code review tool with git and svn support.
• Capybara Webkit 1.1.0: Screenshots and Better ClickFailed debugging - A couple of new features for this automated test tool.
• How MySQL memory table saved the day - Optimizing by tossing an entire table into RAM.
• Using Thor as Rake Replacement - How to set up your scripts with Thor as a backbone.

• PostgreSQL Exercises - Learn by doing.
• Dragonfly - 1.0 release of this gem for managing images in ruby web applications.
• Your own mini-Heroku for $5/month - A walkthrough of setting up and using Dokku.

• Announcing Dynatable.js - jQuery plugin for flexible tables from Alfa Jango.
• Learn to Build a Ruby Gem - Free 10-day course by email.
• Front-end Frameworks v2.6 - There are a ton of them by now.

• The rumors of Bundler's death have been greatly exaggerated - What's going on with Bundler and RubyGems.
• Keeping Parts of Your Codebase Private on GitHub - How to manage a mixed public/private project.
• PeriodicCalculations - Cumulate periodic results of aggregates (such as daily sales) over time with PostgreSQL.

• Legit: Git for Humans - CLI tool to simplify using git.
• Lucie - MVC framework for writing command-line applications in ruby.
• availability.is - Site to publicize your availability for freelance web work.
• Vagrant 1.4 - An end of the year update including Docker support.