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.

feedly organizes your favorite sites into a fun, magazine-like start page.
based on Google Reader and Twitter.

“Rails 3 includes a whole new API. It’s better, faster and stronger, but it might break existing plugins and gems. Use this site to quicklyfind and verify if the plugin or gem you want to use works with Rails 3.”

“This Ruby gem helps import an Excel document into a database or some other format. Just create a class defining the columns and pass in a path to an “xls” file. It will automatically format the columns into specified Ruby objects and raise errors on bad data.”

Allows you to transform plaintext like the following into stories in pivotaltracker

==
  story_type:
    feature
  name:
    Campaign Manager Does Something
  description:
    In order to get some value
    As a campaign manager
    I want to do something

    - can do something

  labels:
    campaign managers

Looks like a really great 30 pages introduction paper into git. Not the high-level commands but “from the bottom up”

Very good writeup about Homebrew the awesome package manager for OS X.

If you haven’t yet, you should give it a try. (make sure you have the latest Xcode installed and it’s best if you haven’t installed macports)

The official Ruby on Rails 3.0 Release Notes.

Read it! Learn it!

“CSS Sprites can get you down, don’t let them. This gem automatically creates the CSS, Sprite and HTML tags so you don’t have to”

NOOOO! Does this mean Rails is now a grown up and from now on boring?

“A collection of git utilities to ease integration with Pivotal Tracker”

Using git and Pivotal Tracker? - this tools looks incredible!