Blink #3 - 24th October 2009
It’s been a while since my last link-blog entry, so this will be quite a big list!
Ruby
- Mustache – for logic-free views in your Ruby web apps
- Watchr – a replacement for autotest
- New Thoughtbot-designed Gemcutter site launched
- Getting ImageMagick and Passenger to play nicely together on OS X
- MacRuby approaching a Milestone – Blog post by Matt Aimonetti.
- Loofah – HTML sanitizer based on Nokogiri.
- Old, but still neat and useful: Subdomain routing in rails
- Tilt – a generic interface to various Ruby templating engines.
- Riot – A fast unit test framework for Ruby
- Ruby code-beautifier TextMate Bundle
General Web/Software
- Google ChromeFrame for sabotaging IE (this feels like old news now!)
- We are colorblind. About 8% of the male population has some sort of color blindness (like me). The patterns and examples on this site help you create websites that we color blind can use without problems
- Pimpin’ (Software Projects) Ain’t Easy – Great marketing-software-for-non-marketers presentation by Amy Hoy
- There’s only Metadata and URLS – Interesting blog post by Tom Scott.
Git
- Github moves to rackspace and ditches gem building
- Tips from @Cauis on .gitignore
CouchDB
- Why CouchDB is the filesystem for the Web
- CouchDB goes beta!
- Mozilla Raindrop – a messaging system built on CouchDB
- Some CouchDB performance tips from Till Klampaeckel
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