Back to work again, rah.

• HeapDump - From your running Ruby program, output in JSON.
• toastr - jQuery plugin for toast-style popup notifications in the browser.
• Ruby 1.9.3-p327 released - With another round of security fixes.
• Objective-Cloud - Run Objective-C code in the cloud as RESTful web services.
• Qe - Unified wrapper for background libraries including Resque, Sidekiq, and DJ.

Packing up for another trip to the woods. About time.

• Reference Graphs as Tools for Refactoring - Using Graphviz to untangle your code.
• 11 Ember.js resources to get you started - Starting with the official docs.
• Railsdocs.org - Wikified documentation site for Rails devs.

Closing in on a milestone here.

• jQuery Slider Shock - jQuery and Wordpress slider with free and commercial licensing.
• Rubies and Bundles - Some notes on making the switch from rvm to rbenv.
• capistrano_colors has been merged into capistrano - A nice fate for a gem I've enjoyed using.
• The Ruby 2.0 Walkthrough - Peter Cooper is looking for funding on KickStarter to pull this one off.

Hopefully my tribe will go back to talking about code now.

• Sidekiq vs Resque, with MRI and JRuby - Some benchmarks.
• Traitor - an Implementation of Traits for Ruby 2.0 - More object-oriented noodling.
• Tracking Down Memory Leaks in Node.js - A Node.JS Holiday Season - First of a series of Node posts from the Identity team at Mozilla.
• Presenters in Rails - Similar to Decorators, but mixed into views instead of models.

Looking into the morass of untested code, and not liking what I see.

• Money Laundering on Gittip, Part 1 - An amazing display of transparency.
• Ratchet - HTML/CSS/JS prototyper for iPhone applications.
• Rackspace Cloudfiles and Fog Cheatsheet - Good notes on how to perform common operations with this combo.
• MongoDB Gotchas & How to Avoid Them - Not the usual kvetching, this one actually has answers.

Week of October 29 - November 4, 2012

• 0b7067d8 adds a call stack for deprecation warnings.

• Mirah - New ruby-inspired language on the JVM.
• Divshot - Drag and drop builder for responsive HTML/CSS.
• CleanSlate - Extreme CSS reset, useful for adding your own widgets in to someone else's web pages.
• GuerillaPatch - Gem to use a common interface for monkey patching Ruby 1.9 or 2.0 (with refinements in the latter case).
• Folderol MD - Instant web publishing of Markdown pages.
• The Insufficiency of Good Design - Sarah Mei's keynote from RubyConf.
• PlanForCloud - Predict your cloud deployment costs with various options.

This week is just dragging on.

• Ruby 2.0.0-preview1 released - I'm sure I'm not ready for this yet.
• Uberfire - Another framework for composing flexile user interfaces.
• Barber - Precompiler for Handlebars files.

We appear to have survived the Night of the Living Sugar.

• Picky - Pure ruby search engine for categorized data.
• Dashing - Framework for building pretty dashboards.

It's the Night of the Living Code...

• Announcing RubyMotion Trainings - Some day I need to find the time to get serious about RubyMotion.
• Peity - jQuery plugin to convert content to mini pie, line, or bar charts.
• How Zappos' User Agreement Failed In Court and Left Zappos Legally Naked (Forbes Cross-Post) - This affects quite a few sites I've worked with.

Thankful to be warm and dry this morning.

• Bootstrap 2.2.0 released - With new examples, bug fixes, bells and whistles.
• Rails 3.2.9.rc1 has been released! - Time to test again.
• Ruby Under a Microscope - Dive into Ruby internals with this new ebook.
• Crumble - Build interactive tours for your web app.
• Bootstrap Live Editor - WYSIWYG editor for Bootstrap sites.
• Bootstrap Resources - Big list from the Bootsnipp folks.

Week of October 22 - October 28, 2012

• ActiveRecord::Model was removed at 9e4c41c99 after a decision that the complexity outweighed the benefits. This was an experiment including AR functionality without inheriting from ActiveRecord::Base.

Time to start a campaign to abolish Mondays.

• Parallel Testing in MiniTest - Now supported, by an opt-in syntax.
• Rails Rumble Winners - In case you just want to check out the best of the bunch.
• Jekyllhub - Blogging for developers using a git workflow.
• DuckDuckHack - Create instant answer plugins for DuckDuckGo.

Winding down another long week.

• BootMetro - Just in case you want to make your web app look like Windows 'Metro' UI.
• Meet Chef (Part 2 of 2) - The first part of this PeepCode was well worth watching. I expect this one will be too.
• Growing a Rails Application: How We Made Deploy Fast Again - Advice from the PagerDuty folks.
• Rails 3.2 Membership Site - Featuring recurring billing via Stripe, this template looks like a good starting point.
• chekku - Gem to check software dependencies.
• fusuma - Alternative window manager for OS X written in Ruby.

Ground down by this and that. Getting to be time for a change.

• Phusion Passenger 4.0 beta 1 is here - Yay, more software to learn and install.
• RubyMine Enoki Early Access: RubyMotion is on Board - IDE for Ruby, now supporting RubyMotion.
• Deploying to Heroku from TravisCI - Hooking two services together in a continuous deployment setup.

Congrats to my eldest, getting his First Class rank at Court of Honor tonight.

• Mantle, a Model Framework for Objective-C and Rebel: A Framework for Improving AppKit - GitHub releases some of the stuff it uses to build OS X software.
• What the Chmod?! - Interpreter/converter for unix permissions.
• Fuel UX - JavaScript controls to extend Bootstrap.

Time to move some of this application logic to the database where it belongs.

• JRuby 1.7.0 - Another big release for the JRuby folks.
• Git 1.8.0 Release Notes - And one for git.
• Redis 2.6 release notes - And one for redis.
• Help us Test the Social API with Facebook Messenger for Firefox - I would, if I used Facebook. Here's to Tent integration.
• chruby - Another simple alternative for switching ruby versions on the fly.
• Benchmark Your Bundle - Simple script to figure out which of your gems is taking the longest to load.
• jq - "Like sed for JSON data."
• Coalmine - Another cloud-based exception tracking service.
• JavaScript for Bootstrap Form Helpers - Some jQuery integration for Bootstrap.
• The Responsinator - Online testing for your responsive layouts.

Week of October 15 - October 21, 2012

The asset pipeline came in for some work this week with a new version of the sprockets-rails gem and some other refactoring.

• eb72e62 adds find_or_create_by which has a slightly different API from first_or_create.
• There's a new "Working With JavaScript" guide committed in 4d0c43e6.

I know I've been working too hard when I start dreaming in code.

• Version Your Ruby Objects with Aversion - Another approach towards versioning, borrowing functional programming ideas about immutable objects.
• TotalSpaces finally reaches 1.0 - Excellent replacement for OS X Spaces formally launches Tuesday. Get it at the beta price while you still can.
• Konacha - Rails engine that integrates mocha and chai with the asset pipeline for JavaScript testing.
• Loader Generator - Generator for gif loading images.
• Purr Programming 2.0 - A little cuteness for your Monday morning.
• Single page apps in depth - A book of architectural advice.

Winding down a brutal week.

• Choose your ipsum - All the specialized lorem ipsum generators that you could ever want.
• Rails 4.0 whirlwind tour - A look at the big changes that are coming.
• :nth Tester - A visual aid to building complex CSS selectors.
• SassMeister - Sass playground site that also supports a variety of Sass extensions.
• Intelligist - jQuery plugin that adds CSS and JS execution to in-page gist display.
Things I wish I knew about MongoDB a year ago - Some hints as well as some complaints.