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Interesting tidbits from around the web (July 31st):

• Step by Step Instructions – moonshine – GitHub – directions to get a rails app up and running with moonshine.
• What To Do When You Launch: Before, During, and After – Launch cycles – we hit the cycle mid-stream with BrandPulse (http://getbrandpulse.com) but we're making the most of it.
• ZNC – some discussion about irc on HN brought about this, an irc bouncer to keep you connected when you're not connected.
• Continuous Delivery is Now Out – the book on continuous delivery, in Martin Fowler's signature series, is out. it's on my reading list.
• jQuery 1.4.2 Visual Cheat Sheet – woorkup.com – jquery cheatsheet for 1.4.2 that's very easy on the eyes.

Interesting tidbits from around the web (July 30th):

• Git Reference – git reference site
• iPhone Pull to Refresh – how to add tweetie style refresh at the end of a list

Interesting tidbits from around the web (July 28th):

• Apple – Safari – Safari Extensions Gallery – the official safari extensions gallery.
• Try it before you buy it. What could be better? – Flatsourcing – This is crazy enough to try
• Titanous : Mailman Released! – another ruby summer of code project released, this one handles incoming email with "route" based matching on criteria.

Interesting tidbits from around the web (July 27th):

• pivotal’s cedar at master – GitHub – BDD-style testing using Objective-C
• Scottish Ruby Conference Videos – The videos for Scottish Ruby Conf have been released.
• Episode 2 – Upgrading to Rails 3 | BDDCasts – BDD Screencasts with Cucumber, RSpec and Ruby on Rails – We pushed out our second @bddcasts upgrading urlagg from rails 2.3.5 to 3.0.

Interesting tidbits from around the web (July 26th):

• Flutie – GIANT ROBOTS SMASHING INTO OTHER GIANT ROBOTS – consistent, sane style for new projects from Thoughtbot implemented as a rails 3 engine and released as a gem.
• 101 Books That Hook Kids On Reading | Online Universities – a list of books to get kids hooked on reading, hopefully we're being good examples and reinforcing the habit
• Rails 3.0: Release candidate – loads of fixes since beta 4, rails 3 is on the way, soon

Interesting tidbits from around the web (July 24th through July 25th):

• Thoughts about Rails from a Django guy – Shizzle – Lenni sips from the rails koolaid and gives his impressions. (He's a django/python guy)
• A few git tips you didn’t know about – Some hidden gems of git version control
• nutshell — Lettuce v0.1.9 (barium release) documentation – cucumber : rails as lettuce : django.
• Armed Robots Deployed By South Korea in Demilitarized Zone on Trial Basis | Singularity Hub – Okay, science fiction is truly here today. Thinking of the voice activated robot sentries in Judge Dredd.
• Customizing IRB, 2010 edition at Adventures with Ruby – Updated .irbrc to include a bunch of new hotness for your irb sessions

Interesting tidbits from around the web (July 24th):

• David Chelimsky » Blog Archive » The RSpec Book – Beta 14 – The RSpec book is still chugging along. Somehow Dave, Aslak and company are writing a book, updating their respective frameworks to keep pace with Rails 3 movement and updating the books examples to the latest version and haven't imploded yet.
• Announcing Coloration, editor color scheme converter – Marcin Kulik’s tech stuff – TextMate theme to vim/kate/and a few others color scheme converter.

Interesting tidbits from around the web (July 23rd):

• Sauce Labs – Selenium-based Downloads, Hosting and Support – in the cloud cross-browser testing with selenium.
• Continuous Deployment, Code Review and Pre-Tested Commits on Digg4 | Digg About – Digg talks about how they're doing continuous deployment and mention tools too.
• Pricing – Harmony Website Management – Harmony is finally being opened up to the public. They've announced pricing.
• Chromium Updater | Sean’s Bloggity – My last updater clobbered itself and chromium, so I killed it and was using the updater plugin, but that's a manual process. So I found this, modified it a bit to be a little more generic and threw it into my dotfiles (http://github.com/jschoolcraft/dotfiles)

Interesting tidbits from around the web (July 22nd):

• Locomotive — Ruby on Rails Open source CMS – Another player in the rails CMS world.
• Pictaculous – A Color Palette Generator (courtesy of MailChimp) – upload a picture, get a color palette

Interesting tidbits from around the web (July 20th through July 21st):

• How to be a successful iPhone developer – Really interesting post from a quite successful iphone dev.
• The Radioactive Yak: Mobile App Analytics (or how I stopped guessing and started measuring) – mobile analytics
• kfaustino’s rails-templater at master – GitHub – starting to see more rails templqtes for rails 3, like this one.
• Recipe: Bacon-Wrapped Mini Frittata – anything with bacon has to be good
• AdBlock for Google Chrome now stops ads before they download – Finally.
• Getting started with Google Docs templates | Geek.com – How to actually save google documents as templates
• Cocoon – Grid-It – okay, this is pretty awesome. a grid of elastic bands to keep your gear organized in your bag.