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Spent some time on code coverage this morning for Project G, refactored some really ugly bits out of the view and back into the controller and sometimes model. No, Project M didn’t sneak out over the weekend, I need to add search and it’ll be my 1.0.

Interesting tidbits from around the web

• In praise of demos – You spend all this time writing code, you ought to invest a few hours for someone to actually be able to try it out. We set up http://demo.bddcasts.com/ there’s no authentication so you can add Brands and Search Terms, we reset the database to a known state before we hit twitter. We didn’t want to let a spammer burn through our API calls, probably should put this off to it’s own post.
• Top 20+ MySQL Best Practices – Some common sense, some interesting nuggets.
• Link LinkedIn into your next Ruby application – Yes, he probably could have used link or in one or two more times in the title. Be interesting to see what people do with this.
• Built In Book Cases – These look really slick, I’d like to do this in my basement at some point.
• Review of Easy and Inexpensive Tools for Usability Testing – Turned up a few I hadn’t seen before.
• VPS Performance Comparison – Pretty thorough comparison. Still, someone needs to build a slider tool like heroku has and then show what it costs across the cloud/vps hosts around.

Got through the weekend of client work and Monday didn’t do too much damage. I’m still working on that whole work/life balance. I picked up a copy of Get More Done, Make More Money today, read it and submitted an RFP or two for some Virtual Assistance. Hopefully over the next week or two I can get to a short list of potential VA, or have found one. WWD had an interesting post on How to use a virtual assistant in your business.

Interesting tidbits from around the web

• Web Developers Can’t Sell. Sorry. – No reason to apologize, for the most part, we can’t. A good set of tips if you still want to try to do this on your own.
• Cleaning user’s input – This has been coming up a lot today, maybe it’s taking long enough for Rails 3 and this is such a no-brainer idea that people are looking for workarounds. Who knows?
• Beautiful-HTML – I half hoped, half thought this was going to be something with HAML.
• 7 Ways to Get More Out of LinkedIn – Alright list, I’m still trying to figure out how to use LinkedIn more. I have found more work through Twitter than LinkedIn. I’d update my status more if I didn’t have to go out to LinkedIn (can’t get ping.fm to work, and they’re support folks aren’t getting back to me).
• Meet jQuery – from PeepCode, bought and on my todo list for tomorrow.
• Python Language Moratorium – interesting.
• Smart Email Marketing – Some good tips. For the haters that think this is spammy, email marketing also gets people to attend conferences, usergroups, and a host of other things.
• Basic postgresql server setup – One day I’ll look at postgresql.
• A first look at the Droid – On my tobuy list.
• The difference between motion and action – or, as one of the comments note, “Never confuse motion with action” – Ben Franklin. Leo has a better post, IMO, The Little Rules of Action.
• Rails on Karmic Koala – For when I’m brave enough to take my production boxes from Hardy to something else.
• I’m an idiot for not using Heroku – maybe you are too. I’ve got a couple things in my idea pipeline that would be good candidates to test out Heroku.