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.

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)