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<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.mrkris.com/2009/10/12/making-money-while-pooping/">mrkris’s thoughts about code and pooping</a> – @mrkris’s unique approach over life strikes again. today, how to take advantage a seat time for your professional life.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.pluginaweek.org/2009/04/11/visualizing-thoughtbots-oss-ruby-inkling-markets/">Realtime watch list tracker script</a> – a nice jQuery plugin from pluginaweek that shows a tiny google graph with the watchers list of some github repos for your choice.</li>
<li><a href="http://blog.themeforest.net/tutorials/vertical-centering-with-css/">Vertical centering in <span class="caps">CSS</span></a> – some suggestions on how to solve that issue.</li>
<li><a href="http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2009/10/12/what-s-new-in-edge-rails">New on edge Rails</a> – <span class="caps">XSS</span> escaping and some <span class="caps">XML</span> building enhancements are the jewels in today’s crown.</li>
<li><a href="http://afreshcup.com/2009/10/11/my-tools-of-the-trade-2009/">Mike Gunderloy’s tools of the Trade</a> – <a href="http://afreshcup.com's">Mike</a> hardware and software overview.</li>
<li><a href="http://mediumexposure.com/2009/10/11/my-tools-trade">and @hakunin’s too</a> – looks like a trend here… maybe i should add mine. firearms included?</li>
<li><a href="http://spidr.rubyforge.org/">spidr – a ruby web crawler</a> – Spidr is a versatile Ruby web spidering library that can spider a site, multiple domains, certain links or infinitely. Spidr is designed to be fast and easy to use.</li>
<li><a href="http://tomash.wrug.eu/2009/10/09/rails-tricks-part-2-mislav-will_paginate.html">will_paginate tricks</a> – that blog shows some very nice tricks, if you don’t follow that one, do it now.</li>
<li><a href="http://saucelabs.com/">Cloud browser testing</a> – definitely something worth checking out.</li>
<li><a href="http://ajaxian.com/archives/crazy-times-rendering-html-in-canvas">rendering <span class="caps">HTML</span> in canvas</a> – first signs of what appears to be, a recipe for confusion among developers.</li>
<li><a href="http://codepad.org/about">codepad</a> – a pastebin that executes code.</li>
<li><a href="http://blog.labnotes.org/2009/10/08/using-a-badge-to-distinguish-development-and-production-environments/">Use a badge to distinct environments</a> – a nice trick to setup a visual notation of your <code>rails_env</code></li>
<li><a href="http://duckpunching.com/passenger-mod_rails-for-development-now-with-debugger">Passenger with debugger</a> – a +1 for development setups.</li>
<li><a href="http://xcss.antpaw.org/">xCSS – Object oriented <span class="caps">CSS</span> framework</a> – a straightforward and object-oriented workflow when developing complex style cascades.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.vcarrer.com/2009/10/css-specificity-coding-method.html"><span class="caps">CSS</span> organizing method</a> – order in your <span class="caps">CSS</span> files.</li>
<li><a href="http://agilewebdevelopment.com/plugins/easy_roles">Easy roles in Rails</a> – a nice gem (off <a href="http://gemcutter.org">gemcutter</a>)</li>
<li><a href="http://drogomir.com/blog/2009/6/16/cucumber-and-celerity-testing-unobtrusive-javascript">cucumber and unobtrusive javascript tests</a> – win, now.. shoulda? please?</li>
<li><a href="http://code.matthewhollingworth.net/articles/2009-10-10-switching-to-gemcutter">Switch to GemCutter</a> – since github decided to drop gem support, gemcutter is the best thing around to use in this case. <a href="http://twitter.com/qrush">@qrush</a> deserves the applause.</li>
<li><a href="http://scoutapp.com/">a Better scout</a> – new release for this server and application monitoring tool.</li>
<li><a href="http://riak.basho.com/nyc-nosql/">riak</a># – another key value storage engine for the web.</li>
<li><a href="http://sixrevisions.com/javascript/6-advanced-javascript-techniques-you-should-know/">Javascript skills you should have</a> – nice stuff.</li>
<li><a href="http://blog.messagepub.com/2009/05/05/how-to-rack-middleware-for-api-throttling/">use Rack to throttle your <span class="caps">API</span></a> – first reasonable use of Rack i come across.</li>
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<h4>GitHub (soon-to-be Gemcutter) Treasures</h4>
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<li><a href="http://github.com/nesquena/cap-recipes">cap-recipes</a> – Battle-tested capistrano recipes for ruby, rubygems, apache, passenger, delayed_job, juggernaut, whenever, among other popular tools.</li>
<li><a href="http://github.com/zilkey/active_api">active_api</a> – an <span class="caps">API</span> layer for ruby.</li>
<li><a href="http://github.com/benhoskings/babushka">babushka</a> – task automation, i think.</li>
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