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Posting is going to be irregular for a while, I expect: here’s why
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We’re trying to prep our house to put it on the market. This sucks down a great deal of time, and explains why posting may be spottier than usual for a little bit.
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A few random links for the Fourth of July.
- Information Card Ruby – Yes, you can now make InfoCard play with Rails, if you must. This will be a good thing for those trying to smuggle Rails into Microsoft shops.
- Mingle is Now Available – That would be the new agile project management tool from ThoughtWorks, now in an Early Access release.
- Comatose – Micro-CMS implemented as a Rails plugin, to handle editing of those few semi-static pages that pile up in every application.
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I’m getting to the point where I’m finding more interesting links for my new blog than for my old one. This is a good sign of transition, I think.
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Time to repost another few links for my own reference and yours.
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There are always about a million little fiddly bits to do to get an application out the door, aren’t there?
- Backing Up Your Mac – Recently-revised article from MacZealots listing some easy alternatives. Doesn’t answer all of my questions but it’s a good starting point.
- mirRoR Placement – A pure Rails job shop. It’s another sign of the rapid growth of the Rails ecosystem that we’re seeing firms like this pop up.
- Announcing Multisite Plugin for Rails – Serve multiple domains from a single Rails application by giving each a distinct set of views.
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Woo, starting another consulting job today, without a speck of MS stuff in sight. I feel all vindicated and stuff.
- iStat Menus – There are about a million different Mac system monitors out there. This one is free and doesn’t take up screen real estate when you don’t want it to.
- VSS to SVN: Part 3 – This tutorial for source code control switchers continues.
- Ruby on Rails EC2 ‘Appliance’ – Practically turnkey Rails deployment to the Amazon server cloud. (via Ruby Insie)
- Sake Bomb – Sake is system-wide Rake. Looks like it still has some warts, but is already useful
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With a second Rails contract about to be signed, I guess I really am a Rails consultant now. How about that?
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It’s Monday, it’s time for some new links
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Looks like I may not starve to death this year after all. That would be welcome evidence that the universe is listening to me.
- “Script.aculo.us – Offline Docs”: http://www.m3nt0r.de/blog/scriptaculous-offline-docs/ – The contents of the Script.aculo.us wiki reformatted as CHM and PDF. (via Thomas Fuchs)
- Ruby In Steel 1.1 Now Available! – An upgrade for folks working with Rails in the Visual Studio shell on Windows.
- Google Analytics Plugin – A simple way to hook up Analytics to a Rails application.
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First client Rails app successfully up and running at RimuHosting. I’ll be writing up my notes for future reference soon. Meanwhile, a few links.
- SimpleLog – A Rails weblog application I hadn’t run across before. By the way, I know my RSS feed for this one is still goofy; I’ll take a look when I’ve got spare cycles. Thanks for your forbearance. (via Same Shirt Every Day)
- Scripting Second Life with Rational Application Developer- – IBM continues to take Second Life seriously. There are also a bunch of crossover events from this week’s IBM/Rational conference being held in Second Life.
- JRuby 1.0 – The JRuby team announces full Ruby compatibility. I don’t personally have a whole lot of interest in JRuby (my ambition is to never work in an “enterprise” again), but it’s a nice validation point for the community.
- Rails Business: Weekly Review #1 – Roundup from one of the mailing lists spawned by this year’s RailsConf.
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You know, I was worried about “slippery slope” censorship issues 20 years ago in zinedom, and here I am worrying about them again in Second Life. Some things just never change.
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Ah, a new work week is always full of such promise, isn’t it?
- “Setting Up Ruby (and Rails) For Ruby In Steel – From Scratch”: http://www.sapphiresteel.com/Setting-Up-Ruby-and-Rails-For-Ruby – Step-by-step guide to one easy way to get going with Rails on Windows.
- There can be only one, a tale about Ruby, IronRuby, MS and whatnot – There’s a lot of discussion in the Ruby community these days about the potential impact of Microsoft’s forthcoming IronRuby implementation. This is one of the best summaries I’ve seen.
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Had one of those happy moments yesterday of saying “sure, I can make that change” and knowing how to quickly rearrange things in the Rails app I’m working on. Of course, I used to be able to do that in VB as well. But it certainly hadn’t been the feeling in ASP.NET lately.
- scRUBYt! 0.3.0 – High-level web-scraping framework based on hpricot.
- Ruby/Password – Suite of password-handling utilities for Ruby, including password-strength checking and generation of strong passwords.
- Rails Google Maps Plugin – An introduction to using YM4R. Looks like I’m going to need this.
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A few post-holiday links.