If I ran the world, I would …

“This is an experiment.

We’d love you to help us make it work.

We want to tap the single largest pool of untapped natural resource in the world: human good intentions that never translate into action. We need adventurers like you to generate actionplatforms and microactions, and then invite people to microact.”

So… are you game?

A set of standardised icons for popular social networking services and tools

“Spoke helps package and distribute GitHub code. Encourages packaging best practices and conventions to eliminate long specifications forms and configuration sit ups.”

Very good introduction to Scopes (Formerly named_scope)

“zool is a gem to manage authorized_keys files on a set of n servers”

Inside you’ll find:

• Almost 120 pages of upgrade information
• A step-by-step guide to upgrading your app to Rails 3
• High-level discussion of what’s new in Rails 3
• Practical tips on using Rails 3’s new features to improve your code
• Real case studies of upgrading apps and plugins
• Detailed checklists for upgrading

Now you can do stuff like: ’Person.validators’ and ‘Person.validators_on(:name)’ which will return the model validations like :presence or :length

Damien here.

I wrote this almost a year ago. It’s something we want Couchio live by, to build a company we all want to be a part of.

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Our companies mission to make the world a better place through open source software.

People are hired based on contributions to open source. Code,…

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..why are you still here?! read it!

The Four Cs of JavaScript

This is like Photoshop in HTML5 + canvas. *crazy shit*

Twitter Open Sourced their Code to handle Tweet-specific elements from a text. Currently Ruby and Java libraries are available.

This makes it easy to extract @mentions, #hastags, urls, etc. from a tweet.